Had identical symtoms once, dead battery/not charging.  And I did not get a
warning light at the dash.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:39 AM, TJ Hemrick <x53gunner@gmail.com> wrote:

> All, I was driving the kids to school today and my 87 GL started slowing
> down, no dash lights, no throttle response.  Just like being out of gas
> except no surging or sputtering.  Just to be safe, I put in 5 gallons, a
> shot of ether, crank it over, but it won't stay running.  contacts on fuel
> pump r clean also.  Anyone know of a component failure that would shut me
> down like this?  l'n thinking bad fuel pump as it ran on pure ether.
>