Originally Posted by
vaprobe87
My truck is doing the same thing. It backfired one time through the intake the other day and started running worse and worse and finnaly got to where it would start up and idle for a few seconds then die. I thought it had maybe jumped time or something so I took it all apart and it looked like it was out of time. I ended up replacing the balance shaft belt because it was all dry rotted and then put everything back together and it fired up and did the same thing.
It would idle for a 4-5 seconds then die again. It did this two or three times and then now it will start up and then die right away. It don't even try to idle.