Car just cut on me

[dkrevs]

Today I was driving home on a motorway and the car suddenly just cut on me and it didn't want to fire again. My brother towed me home. Spark is present, so I think it has nothing to do with ignition. It just doesn't make that specific sound, it sounds like there is not fuel coming to the engine, but I can hear fuel pump priming and fuel tank is almost full. There's no sign of fuel spiting out of the car anything. I thought maybe fuel filter and pipes are blocked...
Engine is E7J, 1.4 Energy, single point injection.

Any help much apriciated.

David

PS: I wasn't alcelerating or braking, or driving over a bump or something.

[diditno]

i had exaclty the same thing happen a few years ago. in the end i had to put a new power feed to the fuel pump as it didnt want to work through the normal wiring. whedn it happened i was on a motorway and the revs just died and it rolled to a halt. just would turn over again.

[dkrevs]

Exactly the same as mine. It's strange to because I can hear fuel pump priming... Was your pump priming?

[cliokiz]

Take the fuel feed off and see if it's pumping fuel when priming

[dkrevs]

I'm going to try few things now. I'll report later.

[cooper]

have u checked the cambelt??

[dkrevs]

I didn't actually look if cambelt is ok, but I uplugged one of the spark plug leads and tried with other spark plug if spark is present. And it was, and because distributor/rotor is driven by camshaft, it is rotating othervise there wouldn't be any spark. We can conclude from this that cambelt is ok.

[dkrevs]

I tried a few things and looks like fuel gets to injector. Another thing that I think could be at fault is flywheel speed/position sensor. Is this one of those things that can just randomly stop working?

PS: Engine has around 51000 miles.

[LEIGH-ANNE]

You dont have an alarm on it do you?

[n9kie]

try resetting the ECU