Alright, so here's the deal. Spent the day puttin' on a new set of shocks, and get in to test 'em out. The car starts for about half a second, and dies out. From then, it won't start. The starter's working just fine as far as I can tell, and the engine's turning over. The voltage on the battery is also fine. Just to make sure, I hooked it up to a friend's car w/ cables and got the same response. I also checked all the fuses, most importantly the fuel pump fuse. The car has about 92k miles on it, and I know the fuel filter is pretty old; anyone have any other ideas before I spend the money on a new pump? Thanks!

 

borrow a fuel pressure guage from your local auto parts store and check the pressure before you buy a pump. also listen for the pump to turn on when you turn on the ignition.

 

Yeah the pump sounds like it's turning on;will do, thanks

 

Is it cranking at all or no? if not its probably something electrical...

 

No it won't crank at all, just turn over. New theory, though. Apparently the fuel shut-off switch is in the trunk, and I had to remove all the interior fiberglass carpeting to get to the rear shocks; 2+2 = 4 = I bet I idiot-bumped the shut-off switch; I'll post when I get a chance to check it out. Thanks for the help

 

let us know . i caught you on the other forum

 

haha nice. Alright the problem has been solved. The inertia switch wasn't reset, butthe enginefired briefly when the switch was disconnected, rather than not at all. So I pulled off the switch and as it turns out, one of the three connection nodes on the bottom was solid black. A little steel wool and bam, she fired right up. Imagine that. It was definately a lucky find. Thanks for the help!

 

no problem man glad i could help out

 

does a 97 gt have a fuel shut off switch? i never knew the stangs had one