85 F150 2wd 302 EFI. Here's the situation. I was driving through town and went to make a left turn. During my turn a car that was parked on the street I was turning onto backed out into the road. I quickly applied the brakes and "jerked" the wheel to the left. There in the road after that maneuver my truck died and would not restart. It would crank over but would not run. I pushed it to the back of the parking lot of a bank right there on that corner to investigate the issue. I did not find anything immediately wrong. I did a little research but did nothing more than double check connections. After about a week of researching and planning I went back to attempt to get it to run. When I got there I decided to try it before I got started and it fired right up like nothing had happened. I then attempted to drive it from the bank to my house (about 15 miles or so) and I almost made it. It seemed fine on the road, but when I got into my little "town" and was slowing down for our only traffic light, it died. Again, it would crank over but would not start. Since I was only 2 blocks from my house I pulled it home with my Jeep. That was about 6 months ago. I've replaced the typical things plugs, wires, cap, rotor. At the same time I did the ignition control module on the side of the distributor and the pick up coil inside the distributor. I cleaned out the iac and put a new gasket on it. I do not have a way to check the fuel pressure at home. What's throwing me off really is that it was running fine, great even, before that incident. I never made contact with anything just hit the brakes pretty hard and a quick hard turn to the left and it died. And...for it to not run but a week later it runs fine only to make it 15 miles and die again. I don't know...it hasn't ran at all since then but still cranks. Any one have any ideas?

 

Buy, rent, or borrow a fuel pressure gauge.


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Change the EEC PWR and FP relays to the later style. They might be under the dash or driver's seat or hood, but you can ID them by shape, color, pin layout, & wire colors:


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Get a Haynes manual, and follow the ignition diagnostic procedure in Ch.5 (usually Sec.5 or 7, depending on edition):


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If it passes, but still won't run, go to the Troubleshooting section before Ch.1.

 

Update:
I tried an experiment that I found somewhere on here. I read to possibly rule out a fuel delivery issue, spray starter fluid in it and if it starts then it is likely something involved with fuel delivery. After I sprayed the starter fluid in it crunk like a champ. It ran as most vehicles do with starter fluid. I decided to turn my attention toward fuel delivery. After the fluid ran out I sprayed some more and started it up again. And a third time. Except with the third time it didn't die. It stayed running. I let it idle for about 15 minutes hitting the throttle from time to time to see how it would respond. It revved fine and idled back done fine. I shut it off myself after about 15 minutes and tried to restart it without starter fluid. Success. I don't know what's going on with this thing. I'm going to try to drive it tomorrow. Will update as needed

 

I do also have one of those red Haynes manuals on the way. I've been meaning to get one but I'm glad I didn't after reading what you put on here. Thanks a ton.