Hi all, im new to the forum and yesterday purchased myself a 1995 C36. The car has done 61,000 genuine KM's. (40,000ml) Its only done 3500km in the last 3 years, so has done very little work.

Driving home from sydney to brisbane in australia yesterday with it...it drove for about 600km (a few stops here and there for food etc)
and about 700km into the journey, at around 1/4 tank of fuel the thing just started to drop rpm, had no power and just died on me...i tried numerous times to restart it but had no success at keeping it running.
So i thought to myself i must have run out of fuel...so i waited for roadside assistance to bring me 15L of fuel. We waited approx 1HR for it. We filled it up, and then when the motor was primed, it went good, had power and we started on the highway again. We got up to 130km/hr (80mph) for about 5km, and the same thing happened. So we had it towed to a local garage. We started it a few times during the night to get the heater going. (we had to sleep in it!!) and it was fine. We then took it for a few 1km drives the next morning..it was also fine...

Next i thought it was the fuel filter clogged up with crap from being not used for a long time and there being a lot of crap in the fuel tank....then i thought, wouldnt the car's behaviour not change at all after the first time it happened??
Next and my current thoughts lie in the high pressure fuel pump - cutting out when it gets too hot??
A friend who is a mechanic also mentioned it could be the ignition coils loosing contact when hot - but it just ran like it was starving, but still had spark??

Can anyone tell me if they have heard or experienced this before and what it might be if its not the fuel pump?

thanks so much
Blake

 

prolly not fuel pump. you mite want to get the engine wiring harness checked, and also look at the air meter as these two things can cause problems.
not sure if it would be the fuel pump overheating that you describe, never herd of it b4, but may be wrong.
nice car you got when u get it going good tho :-)

 

Turns out the fellow who did the last service, put the new fuel filter on back the front! So after a few km, the filter just collapsed under the high pressure...and blocked my fuel line!!

So, i installed the new filter the correct way, and its been perfect since!!

Cheers
Blake

 

well that was a very lucky and easy fix.
congrats