Pull it, drop the relay on the ground, reinstall. Had to do that twice on wife's Element A/C relay. One day I'll remember to buy her a new one.
Glad you posted this. They went to check it out this morning and the car fired right up. It almost makes sense that the car got jostled around enough going on and off the truck to make it work. I'm going to have them go ahead and replace it while it's there.
In my old 911 it was the relay socket that rotted out, not the relay itself. Might want to check for that too.
The wife says the "drop it" repair/test is literally in the repair manuals for the F/18 jets. It almost sounds like something that can't be serious, but she swears it. Any sudden, unexplained failure of a system run on relays, it's always the first check.
Usually a gentle tap on the case is enough to either unstick the relay or jiggle to stater to a position that works. No need to go to town on it.
I was gently tapping, just hit in the wrong spot, I guess. There is no room to go to town on anything in that engine box. The starter would spin but not engage and turn the engine over. Then all of a sudden I lost power to everything, It's the fuse for the entire electrical system.
Got the car back today. They never did find anything wrong with it, it just fired up and ran like a champ. Someone even took it for a drive, which I'm not real happy about, but oh well. They thought I was insane for changing out the relay, but something fucked up, and whatever it was, it will fuck up again. Unless it was the relay. And the relay does seem the most likely culprit. So, hopefully I don't have to go through this again.
That mechanic saw 90s muscle and thought, "that looks fun", and used his position to drive it. The problem was not a problem while under way, it was a starting problem. There was no excuse to drive it. I bet they wouldn't drive a 90s Chevy cavalier with the same issue.
Welp. The car ran fine. Until today. Before work I pulled in to buy a sandwich, maybe 5 minutes, came out and....crank, crank, crank....no fire. I was on a bit of an incline, so I decided to see if I could bump start it, but it wasn't enough incline and I ended up in the middle of the road dead. At this point I was pissed and just used the starter to roll the car back into a parking lot. Not a great idea I know. I plugged in the scanner and there's the p0001 code again. Of course. After about 5-10 minutes it fired off, but ran horrible. Like a carbureted car vapor locking is the best way to describe it. I limped it into work. About an hour later it fired right up. Tonight I drove home with no issues. Through all of this there's been no misfires or CEL's. Even when it was running rough this morning it didn't throw codes. The only thing I can figure is it's getting hot again and whatever gremlin plagued me the past summers is back with a vengeance.
That sucks. I had a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX back in the day and it would intermittingly run shitty. Took it to the local import shop a few times and they could never figure it out. Ended up trading it in. Really liked that car too.
Damn, I thought Dixie nailed that diagnosis. Ok, can you give an up to date list of what you did to try an rectify the problem last summer? Maybe we can think of something new. Actually, I'm sure we can think of something new and throw more parts at it.
I'm down to it must be the fuel pressure regulator, it just has to be. Funny enough, I ran across this. I could've written it, it's exactly the same issue and sadly, it ends without resolution.
Your fuel pressure regulator is not electrically controlled. It can fail outright and you can still drive the car.
Got off work, crank...crank....crank....no start. Had to be towed. Just for grins I tried it after it got off the truck. No go.