okay ladies and gentlemen first I would like to start out by saying that this is a very nice forum, I have been watching it for a few days before I registered.  The broad range of knowledge will be helpful to a zuki noob like myself!

I have jus bought a 91 sidekick automatic 2 door convertable, it ran like a top for a day and a half, now it starts then  dies after a few seconds, runs rough while on.  the truck will not start right back up, but if you let it sit a few minutes it will repeat this cycle.  head gasket good, bought a new distibuter no change.  is there any thing that normaly goes bad on these trucks? When I am at school this morning I am going to get everything I can off AllData

Quinn

okay ladies and gentlemen first I would like to start out by saying that this is a very nice forum, I have been watching it for a few days before I registered.  The broad range of knowledge will be helpful to a zuki noob like myself!

I have jus bought a 91 sidekick automatic 2 door convertable, it ran like a top for a day and a half, now it starts then  dies after a few seconds, runs rough while on.  the truck will not start right back up, but if you let it sit a few minutes it will repeat this cycle.  head gasket good, bought a new distibuter no change.  is there any thing that normaly goes bad on these trucks? When I am at school this morning I am going to get everything I can off AllData

Quinn

Possibly a plugged fuel filter?

-Eric

Also check to ensure your map sensor (on firewall near battery) is hooked up properly....I had the same problem the other day when my vacume line fell off

sounds like a vacume line

ECM??

Mine has never gone out but maybe some of you whose have can tell if this sounds like a possibility.

sorry I didnt have time to say thank you for your help everyone, it turns out that the previous owner of this truck though t he was "joe mechanic" and did some not so expert wiring "MODS" to the fuel system, I am sorting them out now. 

UPDATE: after repairing some of the "spaghetti wiring" performed by the prior owner I decided to go for a top down gruise to take advantage of the weather we had yesterday.  everything was great till the end of the day when I decided it was time to go home.  I have plastic "vent-visors" on my truck...   I was standing on the rocker panel on the passenger side cliping the front part of the top, when I put my right foot on the ground I rolled my ankle causing me to drop like a 260 pound sack of potatoes, natural instinct was to gran the top of the door to catch myself... turns out that the ventvisors will cut through you like butter... to make a long story short I cut the flesh completely off 1/3 of my little finger and to make matters worse it is my right had... very bad day...

Oouch!!Oouch!! Oouch!!

Didn't bend the door frame?
I had a truck the previous owner thought he was a mechanic.
Took out a 5gal bucket of extra wires, butt connecters,splices ontop of splices,
 and god knows what else.