Intermittent stall 1988 Suburban V20 350 TBI

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Originally Posted by 87Skier

Just throwing this out there, but I had a similar issue one time in my boat. It has a Chevy 350 in it and would die occasionally. It would always start right back up. Spent hours troubleshooting that. Turned out to be a failing distributor cap.

I could see that. Those things that happen when vibrating or heat are the worst.

Originally Posted by junour11

i had a brand new control module which came in a brand new distributor go bad. pulled the old control module out and put it in the new distributor. it has been over a year since i had this problem occure. the control module controls when the fuel pump turns on. it senses crank rotation and arms the fuel pump relay. so no crank no fuel pump.

I had fuel, but the ignition module was not sending the signal for spark. So, now spark to the plugs, hence no fire. Same kind of thing though. Stuff like that can last 5 minutes or 5 decades. I have to remember that about this truck. Everything is getting old. The brake pedal switch went out a couple weeks ago. Seriously? Fortunately, it was an easyfix and autozone (eek) had the part.

Originally Posted by Hoods69BadBowTie

That sucks you had to take it in. I was thinking a bad ignition module myself I see I am a bit late on the reply though. Hope it doesn't cause you any more headaches any time soon.

It is what it is. It has been to the shop only 3 times in the last 10 years so I can't really complain. It has it's issues now and then, but usually I can fix them.

It needs some other stuff done. I think I have a rear wheel bearing going out as I can hear a tick when I rotate the wheel. Of course, I just did a drain and refill on the rear diff. That will teach me to not check other stuff first. I also need to reseal the Tcase, transmission, pan shift selector and maybe drop down solenoid. Nothing earth shattering, but all time consuming.