trouble in paradise, Car stalling, ALL OPINIONS WELCOME |
trouble in paradise, Car stalling, ALL OPINIONS WELCOME |
Jun 8, 2009 - 10:43 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Oct 16, '06 From Sarasota Florida Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
"Little Black" started to misbehave. when i backed out of the driveway, she died, it was early so i just assumed i let the clutch go too fast. i tried to restart the car and nothing happened . Here is what i found after some extensive spark plug pulling. The plugs were shot and corroded. so i replaced them. the car started fine after the new plugs were in. but when i accelerate the car started to stall out between 1000 and 2200 rpm. foot to the floor and nothing!!! i could get up to the higher rpm range and she did just fine. there sounded like a misfire at idle. At this point i decided it was time to change the fuel filter with my thoughts being that there was a fuel delivery problem. the filter was dirty and needed to be replaced but was not the problem. I thought maybe an injector cleaning was in order, that's when i was sure that i found the problem. the entire intake was caked in carbon soot, I've seen chimneys with less soot. everything from the back of the throttle blade to the intake gasket was a thick film of black, 2 days and 1 gallon of mineral spirits later the intake was clean and all of the carbon removed. surely this was part of the problem seing that 2 of the vacuum ports in the TB were blocked. NOPE!!!! After reassembling the freshly refurbed intake and TB the car started and reved great, i removed the car from the lift and took it for a drive, great throttle response, perfect, for about 14 minutes and then the sputter and stalling started again. I could use some opinions here.
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Jun 9, 2009 - 4:47 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Jan 25, '06 From MN Currently Offline Reputation: 19 (100%) |
Sometimes the CEL won't come on and your gonna have to jump the terminals in the diag box to find out what the problem is. This is a quote from "alltracman" u can use.
QUOTE What you can do [while you're waiting for it to do this again] is find your diag box under your hood. Get a SMALL paper clip, you don't want to force the terminals in the box. Jump TE2 and E1. Note, TE2 isn't a typo. If you don't understand this, do a search for how to check codes. It's the same thing, except to normally check for codes you jump TE1 and E1. You're going to jump TE2 and E1. AFTER you jump the terminals, turn the key on and drive the car. Take it for a drive to the mall, whatever, just make sure you get some good time and varied driving. I'd say at least a half hour. Stop the car, turn the key off, remove the jumper and jump TE1 and E1 and see if you got any codes. If not, there's not a whole lot you can do at the moment. If you did, that most likely gave you an idea of the problem circuit. ^^^ Thats how I found out my map sensor was bad my CEL didn't come on but with that it worked hope it helps. -------------------- "To Protect And To Serve The Wealthy" -POLICE
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