OK Start out with the car..
2002 Saab 9-5 linear 2.3t (e)

Now for what happened.

Driving on the highway from families house after Thanksgiving.. Cruising along with no issues until I hit the middle of the bridge right before my exit home.. Car just quit.. Didn't sputter or nothing... Luckily I was able to roll to the exit so I wasn't stranded on a bridge with no shoulder over the Ohio river... Rolled to a stop and turned everything off. Waited 2 mins and cranked it back over, died seconds later :/ (note it ran perfect for that 2 sec).. So I leave the car over night go back and it fired right up droven5 ft and bam.. You guessed it.. Dead. Has not kicked over since,I also noticed the fuel pump wasn't priming anymore

Towd it to home. Narrowed it down to a fuel problem seeing how it did get spark and off no prime on key turn.. Replaced pump.. U can hear it prime now just like it should.

Car would not kick over..

Used starting fluid in air intake (prob should do TB??)
It sounding like it wanted to turn but didn't, drained better cranking..

Batter is recharged..


Today I changed fuel filter as well ( broke rear banjo bolt so after a run to junk yard it will be back on tomorrow.)

So my questions are, what do you think in general about the situation?
What else should I be looking at if it wont crank tomorrow?
Can ether or starting fluid be sprayed directly into the ETB?

Any questions just post or pm.. Sorry so long

You're fucked. That is during the GM owned Saab years.

not ready to throw off the cliff yet,

Crankshaft position sensor

figured it would throw a light, i bet my EMI is out.. cuz i know my TCS is out and no lights.. so maybe it is a possibility, wish i had my own tech ll

This

CPS doesn't always show CEL, especially on saabs lol.

Every saab I've driven, old true saab or new GM saab, didn't throw CEL on certain electrical problems like throttle sensor, idle control valve, or cps

saabcentral.com has all your answers

This post was edited by Thomadinn on Dec 6 2015 12:50am

It takes a certain number of failures for it to realize the CKP is bad. You can try to read the codes with a decent scan tool and look to see if there is a new fault archived for it without throwing the code yet. If you clear that it might start and run for a short time.

Everything is back together, sprayed a little startingfluid in air intake and cranked it.. You hear slight combustion then just keeps cranking, couldn't crank anymore cuz battery drained again. Tried to jump it but idk its almost 6 yo battery... Anyways, its not the CSP because as I crank its dose read some rpsnon the tach. so what's next? Gonna charge battery again and give good blast of starting fluid and hope it turns.. Question is can o spray directly into TB instead of air tube ? Any ideas on what else it could b? FG for help

Up

up tomorrow is my deadline.. gotta figure this out.