My car w/in the last week has died twice. Both times it was low on gas but not low enough to my knowledge to die. But what happens, is it dies, and then it starts right back up and can drive for a couple more miles. Like just about thirty minutes ago, i was approx. two miles from my work i was at a stop light i take off, and turn the corner and it just dies. I park, turn the key start's right up, turn the next corner doesnt die, i park go in walmart, and come back out fifteen minutes later, starts right up makes it all the way to work. Now about four or five days ago, the exact same thing happened yet after it died this time it went like five or six miles back to work, and then home and gave me well enough time to put gas in it. So this is kind of bothering me because i would like to fix it before it get's worse. Anyone have any idea as to what it could be?



Also,.. on other thing, im sorry for so much to read. But my brakes are leaking break fluid, all around the canister where you put it in isnt leaking at all, i hit a big ole bump one day and the brakes went to the floor and ever since it has been like this, i have to refill them once a week just to get enough pedal to stop, but they still if having to stock very quick go all the way to the floor, to where it feels like they are pushing in a button and when that happens a brake light comes on in the dash, so if i hit a bump, could they be leaking by the caliper. im just not to sure.

Please someone address these issues for me, thank you so much.

Also, it's a 99 blazer 2dr 4x4.

Thanks,
Josh Clanton

 

So you feel as if the car may be low on fuel when it dies? Try keeping it fuller, not letting it get below a quarter tank. Then look for the fuel filter and change it. May well be fuel pressure problem because of a weak pump, but I would check filter first. This is just a start.

If you have a brake fluid leak, if may be at the wheel. Check all the INSIDES of your tires and wheels and see if any are wet with brake fluid. Any large wet, greasy looking area that smells like brake fluid will be where the problem is. If you dont know what brake fluid smells like, open the bottle and sniff. You must have some to refill with.

Work from here and let us know some more???

 

Well, the blazer has a new used fuel pump, that has been working awesome, still here whining wonderfully, and it has a new fuel filter w/id say not even 1k miles on it. So i dont think it is those. Could the air filter be the cause of this?

The brakes i will check tonight, sometimes it looked like i would have a circle on the ground by both front tires about the size of a baseball,...so ill have to check them out when i get off work. Thanks alot.

 

i think maybe u should check ur gas tank to see if has been dented

 

Have never re-used a pump, but you may feel comfortable. The problem I have with it is not from experience, but the thought of a pump sitting an a gas tank of a junkyard car that has to have the tank emptied due to EPA regulations is a dry pump. Tanks are removed, emptied and many times pumps are simply left in place till needed. A new pump is fine dry, an old one is not.

Even a new pump that is run when dry is a problem begging to happen. If someone proves to you that a used pump is good and runs it while dry, this may weaken pump. No lie.

Maybe non of this happened, just warning the rest of the world.

 

Yeah, my gas tank does have a dent in it, it has not died since i put gas in it, so i honestly think it was just low on gas and when i turned the corner it went to the side, and didnt detect the gas.

Also update on the brake situation, i havent been noticing anything at all, so today i get out and im pumping gas, i go pay i come back outside and i look at my tire and i see this drip and im like there it is, so it kinda made me happy yet mad at the same time, so i look up at the caliper and it is just straight grungy, dirty mucky everywhere, and its got a drip, id say in the time to fill up 10 dollars worth of gas, which is like two minutes, it already had the size of like, the bottom of a coke can, maybe a little bigger. So i just figure a line came lose or something, ill have to take a look.

 

Also there is this boot type thing, sorry for my stupidity when it comes to cars, but tehre is a boot thing that's underneath the caliper it looksl ike, and it looks as if it slid off, because you can see really new shiny silver, so im not sure.

 

Calipers may be rebuilt and a decent shop should be able to help you out to do so. There are ways to do your own and if you feel mechanically inclined; look on the web at the part store sites and such and somewhere you should find some directions. I know i have seen some, cant remeber where, printed them out for a neighbor not long ago.

 

anyone know of anything else it could be

 

A boot? If you know it's a boot, then it must look like a shoe? Just kidding.

But only boot could be for a cover for cv joint and that makes it the only thing we would call a "boot" also. If that be the case, then calling it a boot shows knowledge and not stupidity.

Buying a fuel pump used shows a certain amount of knowledge also.

So does knowing what a caliper is.

Knowing where the brake fluid goes to begin with is also not stupidity. Giving it a "canister" title is interesting and seems like tomfoolery.

You're putting us on about the "stupidity", right??