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#1 (**permalink**) 14 Jul 2003, 12:55 am

If the main relay is bad it will shut the car off. The main relay primes the
pump and runs it while driving. I'd replace that first and see what happens.

"jay mackim" <jay_mackim@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 89 Civic automatic, I have this car since I bought it. For the first
> time since
> 1989 I bought it, while I was driving in street the car stop with the
> check
> engine light came off. I tried start again still the check engine
> right came on.
> Wait 1 minute then the light go out and it starts again. BEfore this
> happened,
> 3 hr ago, while driving the check engine light came out instantly and
> it was goes out right away. I did not think anything was wrong despite
> the check engine
> came out. I never had this car stop on the street while I was
> driving. Now
> that is the worst problem I have this car when I took care of this car
> all the time. I used to have the problem of Main Relay thing that
> sometimes wouldn't
> start when it hot day or after driving long but I never had the car
> just died
> in the street. That's the worst problem I never had before.
>
> I would like to ask two questions 1) is it possible that the Main
> Relay problem causing the engine to shut off while I was driving. 2)
> Is there other
> possible problem such as fuel filter or fuel pump as thise fuel system
> stop
> supply fuel.

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