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You just had some recent work right, belts and alternator? Did you battery ever get down real low or was the alternator preventative? Did you happen to notice your volt gauge when this happened?
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I'd bet your solenoid is ok as a faulty one would't cause the engine to stop ruinning once started. I'd start with checking connections too, all that pulling and yanking when changing battery might have messed something up. Also, don't rely to much on that new battery. A bad battery can cause the weirdest of problem, as can bad grounds.
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DME relay took a break, then worked again. Same happened to me, I jumped out, swapped in a new DME relay and was back on road in 2 minutes. I've subsequenly tested the other relay and it works again. Maybe it got hot.
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Agreed. a lot of bad things are linked to that faulty DME. I had an intermittent starting issue that proved to be the DME. After swapping it out things were fine. about a year later I had the engine die, in a parking lot, with the new DME in. It started right back up but the starting trouble came back, about once every 4 drives I had to crank it about 4 times before it would start. I was ready to change out the starter when a few wise chaps on this forum told me to try the DME, even though it was only a year old. And yes, it was in fact the DME.. again.
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