snb73

My son was driving his 96/auto home this weekend and it just died on him. He states it was running fine. 15 minutes and multiple crank attemps later, the car started. It made it about 3 miles and died again. I show up, it starts again after 15 minutes of trying and he drives it home 3 miles. Won't restart after shut down.

The car has fuel, the engine turns over, I am unsure if spark right now

Next morning I get it started and drive from the street to the garage. Shut it off and it won't restart.

I checked the distributor and it was dripping some oil when I removed the cap screws. Although there wasn't any oil in the cap or on the rotor.

I pull the codes and get three; P0340-camshaft position sensor, P0500-vehcile speed sensor, P0325-knock sensor.

Is this a common problem, where should I start?

Thanks, Steve.

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Dizzy

Distributor. The camshft postion sensor is also inside the dist so when you get the new distributor you'll have a new camshaft pos sensor. That's where you start. It's about $160.

The 325 knock sensor code is just going crazy because the car is knocking from the distributor, you rarely need a new knock sensor, it's just really sensitive and usually goes off because of any other problems.

The speed sensor (VSS) could be one if two things. Do you have the intermittent speedo problem? (the speedo needles sometimes drops to zero and will jump back up to speed)

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