I have a 1988 Buick Regal Limited (2.8L V6) as my winter car, it has about 62,000 on it (thats crazy low). Anyway, I have been driving it for a couple days now with out any problem but last night it just quit one me.

I was driving at a steady 45 mph and all of a sudden all the warning lights came on, I tapped the gas but there was no response, the car died without out a spudder or anything. I pulled over to the side of the road, put it in park and turned the key, the car fired right up again, no hesitation at all. That I know of, the car has done this once before durring an emmission test, I jus thought it was the old gas in it but that was not the case this time.

It seems like it may be electrical...any thoughts?

Thanks

JEFF

 

I once was test driving buick and it happened to me too. I think it was Le Sabre or something, nice car by the way!

Youd have to get advice from someone who knows or owns buicks, any model.



Yes, it could be electrical, such as power cut to computer. It could also be fuel. Changing fuel filter and putting in fuel treatment should be cheap.


A big problem you gonna have is reproducing this condition. You cant fix it if you cant reproduce it or if its very intermittent.

 

Have it scoped, that should show some irregularities. Some GM cars had an electrical widget of sorts in the distributor that would just quit and the entire engine would stop and not start again until that part (that looked like a domino) was replaced. GM was famous for those sorts of things happening back in that era. Most likely an electrical problem of sorts under any situation.

 

The car sat a lot (as the 60k would dictate). I will be driving it regularly now. I filled up the tank and added some injector cleaner, we'll seehow that goes. I also want to do a plug/wires change, does anyone know if this car has a distributor? I cant imaging it would have coils and I havnt had a chance to look yet.

 

Its not gonna have coil overs. It might have HEI system, distributorless, that way youd have coil packs. In both cases youd have wires, Id replace those. Accel makes nice wires, cheap too.

 

I was refering to the coil packs, I know the car doesn't have coil overs.

What I was getting at was that while Im changing plugs and wires, if it had a distributor I would change that too.

I'll take a look for the Accel wires, thx.

 

Easy lol. go to www.autozone.com


they have repair manuals, read it.


If you interested in modding that car, you can get digital ignition, such as Ford EDIS module, and Megajolt controller. All deal should cost you about $200, youd be able to dial in your timing on a computer via a 3D table, plus youd have control over rev limit, shift light, and four generic programmable outputs which you can use for whatever, like multi stage nitrous for example, they can fire based on RPM or manifold pressure, while going up or down. Sweet stuff.

 

no worries.

I have no intrest other than general maintaince for thes car, its just my "beater".

Thanks for the help

 

AUTO ZONE repair manuals suck,

if your gonna try to fix it, take it to someone that does free or cheak diagnostics, it could be anything from a bad sensor, to a bad computer, i has an 87 lesabre and that thing would rung great, then for no reason throw a code and die, i could allways restart it but, it would randomly happen, no one could find the problem, we changed coil packas, ignition module, and even the ecu, no clue and my uncle is an plds buick master tech and he couldnt find it, so we got rid of that car, sucks too it was a sweet body style


good luck man

 

Lol, nice advice from someone who fixes cars by replacing them.


Autozone manuals are free and a great resource!