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Marquis engine starts but stops immediately - 3/27/2007 8:10:18 PM

jinroh

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It's a 96 Mercury Grand Marquis with 55k milage.
Today I started the engine, then the engine stops 2 seconds later. I tried again and hold the gas padel, the engine running. Then stops right after my foot leave the padel. After 30 minutes, I tried again, the engine starts without any problem. That's the 3rd time in last couple months.
The only thing I could think of is I changed original motorcraft spark plugs to bosch platinum 2+ ones 3 months ago.
Any suggestions are welcome.

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RE: Marquis engine starts but stops immediately - 3/27/2007 8:40:55 PM

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Some spark plugs don't run well in older engines. If the factory didn't put them in there was usually a reason for that. It could be a lot of different ignition parts like the wires, cap, rotor, etc. which could also be affecting it though.

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RE: Marquis engine starts but stops immediately - 3/30/2007 9:59:52 PM

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Checkthe idle speed control motor. Classic symptoms of it failing. Alse replce the plugs again with Motorcrft. Bosh will give you about 10 to 15k miles and fail.

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RE: Marquis engine starts but stops immediately - 4/1/2007 6:01:15 PM

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Slight possibility of dirty fuel filter.

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