Daniel,
Although it is difficult to tell what is happening by your description, I think I have a solution, or at least a place to start looking for a real answer.
I think your problem may be vapor lock. This occurs in aircraft more often because of altitude changes. If the temp gauge reaches half (on the gauge) that would indicate a normal operating temperature for most vehicles. A quick look at the instrument cluster will show most needles in the straight up position. This is by design so that when you see one needle pointing one way or another, you know there is an abnormal situation with just a glance.
If you are operating at the normal temperature, this may mean that one of your fuel lines, or fuel rails is being heated abnormally in the engine compartment. Perhaps a fuel line bracket is missing or broken causing a line to lay on a hot engine component such as the exhaust manifold or an oil line or a header or the engine block. You might also try wrapping your fuel lines in a heat reflective tape. Another suggestion is to fashion a heat shield under the carburetor.
However, you may have a different fuel delivery problem, such as debris in the tank, restriction in the fuel line or fuel filter, or tank pickup.
Here is an interesting article about vapor lock and it's prevention.
One more article on prevention.
I would be interested to know if any of this works.
Frank
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It's hard to tell what is happening by your description. Are you saying your car can drive for a couple miles then it shuts off? The temperature gauge is only reaching the half way mark? How old is the car and how many miles on it? Any recent work done on it? The information you give us the more we can help.
из Phillip Takahashi
We have a 2006 dodge caravan that has 230,000 miles on it and it has started doing this too. We hesitate to even drive it. We don’t want to buy another vehicle. What do we need to do to keep it running?
из William Marshall
I have a 2005 with 203K miles. We've given it TLC but this morning, right after I filled it with gas, I drove about a block and turned into a parking lot and it just died. I couldn't turn the wheel even. I shut it off and it did restart as if nothing happened. When I returned from my errands, it started fine. My college-aged son was hoping to use this van for his summer car to commute to work, but he'll be traveling at high speeds on a highway, so can't image having it die suddenly in this scenario. I'd like to fix this issue if it makes sense just to get through the summer as we are cash-strapped right now and don't want to purchase another used vehicle. Thoughts? Thank you!
из Gina Eaton
I hope someone reads this. 2005 Caravan, 155k miles. It's been running rough of late, stalling with idling and idling like it has a cough. I replaced one of the fuel injectors a week ago. Yesterday, while driving, it suddenly shut down, just shut down in mid-flight. I had filled up the tank and then put some injector cleaner in to hopefully cure the coughing at idling. Five miles later it just stalled and there was no way to get it started again. It was a $95 tow job. Any ideas? I do not want to cough up thousands for another car.
Walt
из Walter Carpenter
Walter, my van had this problem and then stopped. I wish I could say why it stopped...but it was doing it during very hot weather and after I filled the very empty tank with gas. After I drove a block it would die while I was moving. I would put it in park, shut if off and restart it. Your incident sounds slightly different because it didn't restart. We did find a loose spark plug wire, and my son fixed that and replaced the fuel injector. Right now the weather is cooler and many other smaller issues have been fixed since. My van now has 214,000 (it had 205K when this problem occurred) and I have the luxury of a husband + son who are willing/able to fix most things. Basically I'm saying that your current issue should not be a life-ending or expensive problem for your van. Wishing you luck.
из Gina Eaton
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