# Dodge stealth no fire!!!!!
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [January 16, 2007, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131 "2007-01-16T11:36:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/21 "2007-01-16T12:38:45Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Exactly. It’s not running at all, so I’m assuming it’s not air.
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> The fact that it happened today, on the coldest day we’ve had in a long time, makes me want to bet on iced up fuel line. Depends if the pump is kicking on or not.
yeah, my old tempo would not start if it was cold, but i don’t think it was fuel lines… it just wouldn’t start. the starter did not like the cold. if it didn’t start on the first crank, i was fucked. I used to stuff an electric blanket in the engine bay at night.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/22 "2007-01-16T12:56:37Z")
lol… you had an emo starter. Most starters don’t have feelings. Something more than, “it didn’t like the cold” was obviously wrong. Probably cold + some failing electronic part = more resistance = no start.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/23 "2007-01-16T13:00:00Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> lol… you had an emo starter. Most starters don’t have feelings. Something more than, “it didn’t like the cold” was obviously wrong. Probably cold + some failing electronic part = more resistance = no start.
i think it was resistance in the starter itself. It would crank, just really poorly. Could also have been power wire or ground wire… or corrosion in the solenoid…
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/24 "2007-01-16T13:12:16Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Face it, you might as well have a mod delete the for sale thread for this car.
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> You can’t post all your “need help now” questions on the same forum as your “for sale” threads about the same car. 🙂
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> Back on topic… it needs 3 things to run. Air, fuel, and spark. Get all three of those, even in the wrong mixture, and it will at a minimum run poorly.
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> Air: Not much could have happened to make it completely stop running. Lets assume you have air.
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> Spark: It’s colder now, wires have much more resistance. Your battery is also putting out much less power than when it was 40 outside. Remove a plug, put it back in the wire, ground it on the block, and crank it. Does it spark?
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> Fuel: Water in the gas and a frozen line? Fuel pump/relay problem? Blown fuse? You said you added a gallon of gas. Was it so low that you might have run it dry? Fuel pumps, especially old ones in abused cars, don’t like running dry and having the pickup suck air or all the crap that is probably in the bottom of your tank.
No the car is not still for sale, it’s a lost cause, anyway it was not bone dry, between a quarter tank and E, and I cant smell gas I the camber so i assmue it is the pump relay or fuse, and I did recently blow the fuse In my dash and tail lights.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/25 "2007-01-16T13:27:20Z")
Selling it is your best option, and it’s not a lost cause. Get it running again AND DON’T DRIVE IT. Put it up for sale on [autotrader.com](http://autotrader.com), and hope it stays running long enough to dump it on someone else the way it got dumped on you. From your threads I can tell you don’t have the mechanical ability to avoid having this car destroy you financially. Cut your losses and get out. Buy something cheap and reliable (read not sports car).
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### Author:  [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/26 "2007-01-16T13:27:46Z")
> [@IKSHO89](#):
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> … between a quarter tank and E…
AKA 1/8 tank of gas???
Spray staring fluid in the TB, if it fires your problem is fuel related, if not its spark, then work from there, K.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/27 "2007-01-16T13:31:33Z")
Ha Ha, thats funny, I’d love too but I really am not in the position of not driving it, anyway, most of the thing that have broken are inexpensive (axecpt for the alternator which was my fault) and OEM, and it is a 91 these thing do go, other than that it 's fine, and u are right cheap sports cars are no good.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/28 "2007-01-16T13:32:55Z")
OK I,ve cranked and cranked this thing, over and over, and I cant smell any gas, normaly by now it would be fludded, so it is fuel no doubt.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/29 "2007-01-16T13:35:50Z")
Oh yeah, and If u want to talk about it being dumped on me, talk to one of our fellow nyspeed memers, who refuses to chime up on these “my car’s fucked up threads” on if he ever had probloms in the past.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/30 "2007-01-16T13:40:06Z")
did you try jumping the relay?
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/31 "2007-01-16T13:42:12Z")
I couldnt really find the realy ? I’ll have to check the owners manual but its probably labled somthin stupid.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/32 "2007-01-16T14:05:32Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> From your threads I can tell you don’t have the mechanical ability to avoid having this car destroy you financially.
I’m willing to take this verbal ownage, only beacause u always give me the info that gets the problom fixed right, thanks, I guess
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### Author:  [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/33 "2007-01-16T14:17:44Z")
> [@IKSHO89](#):
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> Oh yeah, and If u want to talk about it being dumped on me, talk to one of our fellow nyspeed members, who refuses to chime up on these “my car’s fucked up threads” on if he ever had problems in the past.
I know the fellow NYSpeeder you are referring to. And he told you what he was told when he bought the car. He got the car cheap because it was leaking power steering fluid. He fixed the power steering and then posted it on NYSpeed for sale before he had ever even driven the car. Then he drove it for the few weeks it was posted and never had a problem wit the car. You bought a 14 yr old $1500 car and guess what you got. A 14yr old $1500 car, who would have thought you might have to replace some things. Don’t try to say someone dumped it on you. If you had some mechanical know-how maybe this wouldn’t be an issue. Maybe he should have put in the for sale thread this car will eventually need to be maintained and will not run for ever without proper maintenance. But most people assume already when buying an older high mileage cheap car that they might have to replace a few things.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/34 "2007-01-16T14:27:58Z")
Well I’m sorry, let me refrase that, I have no problome with what else is going on with the car they are small thing that are fixed easily, and yes it is an old cheap car things go, fine, I’m hinting at more the fact that when I test drove the car the clutch was fine and trust me we tested it good. suddenly when I pick it up the clutch is fried, OK I dont want to blame anybody for anything but stupid me did leave it at his house after paying for it and suddenly it is broke, Ok the fact that he never said yeah i was driving it and this happened kinda pissed me off, cause he is refuising to speak up on what happend, cause if he honestly didnt fuck it up, thats all i need to hear, I just dont think a clutch wears itself, do you ?
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/35 "2007-01-16T16:23:37Z")
> [@IKSHO89](#):
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> I’m willing to take this verbal ownage, only beacause u always give me the info that gets the problom fixed right, thanks, I guess
Nah, didn’t mean it as ownage at all. I saw myself make the same exact mistake you’re doing when I was younger. Trust me, that car will fuck you up financially if you don’t just admit you don’t have the mechanical skills to keep it up yourself. That’s stuff you can learn, but it takes money and time to keep repairing it, and that much more money when you don’t have the time because it’s your DD.
EDIT:
On to fixing it. The relay might not be labeled at all. If you have a service manual (factory, haynes, etc) I’m sure it will tell you where it is. Some cars will run if you get them started, even if the relay is fried. Basically once the car gets some oil pressure the oil pressure switch tells the fuel pump to run. I used to start my money pit, I mean first Fiero, with a can of starting fluid all the time. It would blow relays about once a month and at the time I didn’t have the mechanical knowledge to figure out why. Not sure if a Stealth will do this or not.
[http://www.stealth316.com/2-fuelpumprelaybypass.htm](http://www.stealth316.com/2-fuelpumprelaybypass.htm)
Good pictures of the pump relay, and how to bypass it.
Before you go through all that, have someone try cranking it while you tap the relay with a screwdriver. If it’s just starting to go it might start right up.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/36 "2007-01-16T16:51:27Z")
Thanks I’ll try that, speaking of tapping it we just had a s-10 blaxer at school with a bad blower motor, we started tappin the realy and it worked, for how long knowone knows, so we’ll see.
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### Author:  [@The\_Russian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The_Russian)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/37 "2007-01-16T17:10:29Z")
STARTER FLUID IN THE TB!!! spray the piss out of it, try to start it. if it coughs, spray more!!.
Have a friend come over and spray it when your cranking.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/38 "2007-01-16T18:45:18Z")
> [@IKSHO89](#):
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> OK I,ve cranked and cranked this thing, over and over, and I cant smell any gas, normaly by now it would be fludded, so it is fuel no doubt.
Do something suggested in this thread before you draw conclusions. Please don’t turn this into a copy of your clutch thread where you asked the same questions over and over, ignoring all the advice you got. Yes it does sound like you’re not getting fuel, but do something to positively diagnose this. Then move forward to diagnosing why you’re not getting fuel.
Not being able to smell gas doesn’t mean anything.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/39 "2007-01-16T18:47:43Z")
OK kill the info for now cause I’ve taken all the suggestions, but cant do anything now cause the car is not on my property and cant look at it till tommorow, I’ll update.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dodge-stealth-no-fire/23131/40 "2007-01-16T18:55:28Z")
Good luck!
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