I took a road trip to visit some family in my crossfire. While trying to leave after fueling up my car refuses to start, or run. The engine starts then stalls out immediately. I got it to drive home from the gas station, but I was only able to go less then 10mph (with the pedal to the floor). I just got a pretty bad vacuum leak fixed, and replaced the spark plugs, I think it could be the fuel system, but I'd like to hear any advice

 

Was it a remote not often used gas station? Might be water in the gas.

 

Kinda sounds like bad gas to me.

 

Bad gas or water would take some time to get to the injectors, it would not show up immediately.
It could be low gas pressure. Accelerator pedal or throttle body sensor, but it would be odd for them to suddenly appear.
Where was the vacuum leak? How many miles on the car?

 

It has 215k miles. I got gas when I first got to the town my parents live from a gas station that I have since learned has a reputation for bad gas, I tried not to drive it for the week I was visiting because of a vacuum leak, which I had fixed before I tried to leave home. I think I probably has bad gas, how expensive/hard will that be to fix, and what will need to be done fixed or replaced

 

Telephone local shops and ask them to vacuum out the fuel tank. Bring a gallon of good gasoline with you and add to the empty tank so you can proceed to a gasoline station. You could do it yourself with the purchase of a few simple tools.
The small amount of bad gas in the fuel lines will soon be gone once you get the car up and running. If it hesitates then you should replace the fuel filter as well.

 

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Add some 'dry gas' to the tank, add a can or two of an octane boost, and THEN fill the tank with premium. DO THIS ALL AT THE PUMP so when you start the car the entire mixture will be mixed throughout. It may stumble a couple of times but pretty soon the 'bad gas' influence should be gone with the different additives mixed in with new gas. Unless you have no flow, you shouldn't have to drain/flush the tank/fuel system. Try not to drive 'hard' until another fuel fill (the added octane may result in a hotter engine). Good luck!


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Thank you all so much for the advice. I'm in a different state that my car it's with my parents, I'm going back down to fix it next month. So my last question is, do you have to drop the fuel tank to drain the gas?

 

No need to remove the tank, you simply pump out the fuel using a vacuum pump. I suppose you could get under the car, remove the output hose from the pump and jumpter the fuel relay and pump the tank empty using the fuel pump...

 

I tried yesterday to vacuum gas out of the tank with my Mightvac. The 1/4" line slipped in and I was able to draw gasoline out easily, but the 3/8 tube wouldn't reach in far enough. It got hung up on something.

Slyfox, you can't "drop the tank" on a Crossfire. It is a time consuming job to remove it through the hatch or trunk. It does not drop down.