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1985 Mustang 5.0
The Mustang will Start but after 5 minutes of idle it turns off?

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choke not working right maybe? ignition problem?
[Confused] whats it doing after 5 minutes?
Posts: 1276 | From: Long Beach C.A | Registered: Jul 2002  |  :
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Does it fire back up? If not its most likely linked to the dist, very common problem in the 82-85's
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TFI module, on the side of the distributor.
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unless its cfi it is duraspark and that is probably the issue the duraspark box

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