98 GS Wont Start

[jpratt]

I have a 98 Buick GS supercharged. We have not driven it in the past few weeks due to bad weather. A couple days a go I tried to start her and the battery was dead. I put the trickle charger on it and left it over night. Now I try to start her and the engine will not crank. All the lights come on and the gauges cycle over then go to zero while the key id in the start position. No click from the starter solenoid. I jack the front of the car up and tapped on the solenoid, nothing. Rotated the engine over by hand to see if I could free up the starter gear, nothing. I can use a screwdriver to arc across the starter adn get her to start for a second or 2, sounds normal then dies. I can get it to do this as many times as I want but it always dies after just a second or 2. I have a scanmaster for the car and it does not read anything, no lights at all. If the GN did that on the SM I would say that it was the ECM wire but on this car I have no idea. I am thinking that if it was the ECM then it would not run for those couple seconds at all.

Anyideas?

 

[CHARGED]

On mine it just died while driving down the road, then it would start for about 2-4 seconds then die again, over and over. I believe it was the feul pump relay the dealer replaced. Try over here also www.RegalGS.org :: Index

 

[jpratt]

On mine it just died while driving down the road, then it would start for about 2-4 seconds then die again, over and over. I believe it was the feul pump relay the dealer replaced. Try over here also www.RegalGS.org :: Index

I just joined over there. We will see. The fuel pump thing happened to me this year in my Tahoe, but this is different as it will not crank over unless I arc the starter.

 

[Randy Greenoe]

I just ran into this problem a month ago. Car would start run a few seconds lose fuel pressure and start right back up and do it all over again. The problem was in the passenger side wheel well there is a resistor that gives full voltage to fuel pump and once the engine starts the resistor cuts back on voltage. It is a GM part about $45 it is called a resisitor relocator kit. it moves the resistor from the wheelwell into the engine compartment.

 

[jpratt]

I just ran into this problem a month ago. Car would start run a few seconds lose fuel pressure and start right back up and do it all over again. The problem was in the passenger side wheel well there is a resistor that gives full voltage to fuel pump and once the engine starts the resistor cuts back on voltage. It is a GM part about $45 it is called a resisitor relocator kit. it moves the resistor from the wheelwell into the engine compartment.

But I cannot get the car to turn over on its own. Maybe has something to do with the security? I tried a different key. Tried using the keyfob to arm and disarm the car then try starting but still will not crank.