98 gt stalled out

[zoomie]

Soo my roomate purchased a 1998 mustang gt, yesterday she went to take it home it stalled after about a mile, had a 1/4 tank in it. She stated that she lost power steering and then it died, no sputtering it just died.
got the car from golden customs over in pine island. he ended up getting it towed back, put some new gas in it and it fired up, apparently its running, now but without me personally being down there hard to guess what is the issue. if this happens again is there any ideas?
I mean so far from what i know, it could be fuel pump, dirty fuel sock, dirty fuel filter, bad MAF, PATS messing up, or maybe a goofy fuel cutoff switch. hopefully we can get this fixed soon

 

[Charged5.0]

Maybe someone did a pump in it and bent the arm and now a qtr tank is your new empty ?

My first car read half a tank all day And that sucked

 

[zoomie]

oh fun fun

 

[92BIGREDBEAST]

I would start by putting a cheap Jegs ($25) fuel psi gauge on the fuel rails if is has the bleed valve on it. I think it may. Sounds like a fuel issue if you added fuel and it started. MAybe you cleaned the pump screen off when you added the fuel. GL

 

[Charged5.0]

I only said bent arm because adding fuel started the car. Could be something easy or hard. I agree with the above post. Few simple tests will eliminate a lot.

You could fill it up with gas and do some math to see if the amount you added computes to what may be in it before you fill it. ?

 

[Chief Gilly]

This could be several things. beg borrow or steal a diagnostic OBDII scanner and see if it's throwing any codes. This may give you a general direction to start looking. This could be anything from loose battery cable to crap in the fuel tank to loose connector for fuel pump. You can now buy scanners for reasonable price and they are great for checking codes on many vehicles.

 

[zoomie]

This could be several things. beg borrow or steal a diagnostic OBDII scanner and see if it's throwing any codes. This may give you a general direction to start looking. This could be anything from loose battery cable to crap in the fuel tank to loose connector for fuel pump. You can now buy scanners for reasonable price and they are great for checking codes on many vehicles.

yes i am aware of that,but thank you anyway, if i was phyically able to be with the car id probably have it back up here by now, its still sitting down at pine island.

 

[zoomie]

Well so far so good, had a loose wire or something in the guage cluster , so it looks like it ran out of gas. roomie been driving it today, no hiccups

 

[angelforbill]

Glad things are going well. When I bought my car I noticed the gas light lit while on our test drive. I pointed it out to the "gentleman" and was told it was fine. That was until when we tried to move the car for the test drive it sputtered and didn't want to go. Another guy from the place came running, "Wait we didn't put gas in it yet!" When I first bought my car believe me I knew very little about cars. But I do know what the red gas light means. Dorks. lol

 

[zoomie]

Glad things are going well. When I bought my car I noticed the gas light lit while on our test drive. I pointed it out to the "gentleman" and was told it was fine. That was until when we tried to move the car for the test drive it sputtered and didn't want to go. Another guy from the place came running, "Wait we didn't put gas in it yet!" When I first bought my car believe me I knew very little about cars. But I do know what the red gas light means. Dorks. lol

yep been finding all sorts of things to annot myself with with this car, it runs and drives, just passed inspection today, but it the little things like one of the headlights is screwed in from the top(oh joy) that make me scratch my head.