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Car cranks but wont start

Tiny
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  • 1995 FORD TAURUS
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1995 taurus with 3.0 ohv had it in the shop was told it needed a disturbator replaced it took them 3 remanfuctured ones till it finally started and ran for 1 day and now wont start no spark we have checked all grounds looked at most of the wiring and cant seem to figure there are no ecm codes we can take the dist out and put it back in and it will run for about 45sec then nothing
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 6:53 PM

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Tiny
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Sounds like a bad connection in the distributor. Check the module to pick up connection. Will it run with the spout disconnected?
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 7:11 PM
Tiny
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Not sure what spout connection you are talking about as it is. Now no start at all The distributor is a new remand
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 7:20 PM
Tiny
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There is a 2 wire plug @ the distributor its a gray plug
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 7:36 PM
Tiny
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Just pulled it out and yes it started ran for a bit then died
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 7:42 PM
Tiny
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I got it to restart put that Plug back in it seems to be working now what does that plug do?
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 7:56 PM
Tiny
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If it now runs you just eliminated the dist and all its parts. Your looking @ a short in the wire to the pcm or a bad pcm.
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 AT 8:18 PM

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