I'm a member of other car forums and know how the new guys can get ripped up for dumb questions so bear with me.

I have a 95 sse. It has allot of miles 205K. But ran perfectly until today. I'm on the way to finish christmas shopping, driving along just fine and it missed hard. And from then loses power big time......I had to downshift to 2nd just to maintain 40mph, and get to someplace to pull over that wouldn't let the car get ran over by the plow trucks.

I shut it off, and it would start up and not idle at all. You could pump the throttle and keep it running but never get it to rev.....

When the car was running horrible about to stall the traction control light was on, and stayed on. It wouldn't let me turn it off. It felt like it was interfering even with the idle.....Any how I pulled the positive cable to reset the PCM, and the traction control light went out.

Still no start.......After searching for a tow dolly or trailer at Uhaul'* nearby we ended up tow strapping it home in the dark with a dead car you couldn't run wipers or defrost, in sub freezing temps w/freezing rain......


PLEASE, PLEASE any help you can give me is much appreciated......With the holidays I simply don't have the money to just take this somewhere to have it fixed.

Do you have any check engine lights? If so, what'* the code? I would suggest giving it a good look over. Pull the plugs and inspect. Check the oil, coolant, trans fluid, belts. Look for any fluids on the outside of the engine.

The plugs aren't firing very good. A couple were soaked with gas, and all of them were kinda black (NOT oil)

I took off the ignition control module and took it to Autozone and it tested fine.

Any ideas?

What will make the plugs not fire well? Ignition control module tested good.....Only other thing I can think of the crank sensor.

The car starts up fine, and if you slowly give it gas and rev it really slowly it will run fine, but if you let off it will die, and if you stab the throttle it will cut out and/or die.

Check the CAT.

Don

Sounds like your running rich. How many miles you have on our O2 sensor? Have you cleaned your MAF?

Why would the cat cause the car to dump so much fuel it won't stay running?

Yeah it is rich. To the point it won't run. Only way that could happen as I see it is that it isn't getting enough spark......The PCM wouldn't richen the car to the point it wouldn't stay running...

The engine light is out, because I reset the PCM by removing the battery cable for awhile. It hasn't come back on in the time I've had it running

What code did your PCM have? If your O2 sensor is going it will read lean and send more fuel, even when it'* rich. Your millage will start to drop and then tank all together.

I don't have a scanner so I don't know of any codes. And the light isn't coming on when I try to ,keep it running.

I changed the plugs and it still runs the same.

So far removed the ICM and had it checked changed the plugs and still the same.

I pulled a plug wire, and put a screwdriver in the plug wire and I can only get a small orange spark to arc.....

Ok so the coil that had a weak spark..........I took it to autozone to have it checked. It passed the primary side, and failed the secondary side (that plugs into the ICM). I replaced that and still nothing.

It will start up sometimes, run ok if you keep it rev'd up but steady. Won't idle.

So I'm down to the crank position sensor and the ICM. The ICM tested fine at autozone. I have heard of them testing good but being bad......But hell it'* to expensive to just guess it'* really bad even though it tested good.

I'm going to change out the crank sensor tomorow and see if it will run.


Will the CPS let the car run sometimes but not idle or stay running?