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reving like its got a rev limiter,bucking popping loss of power under hard accel

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Old 04-16-2015, 03:25 PM
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frustrated want to run it in the river, put a new tfi on now it is cutting out,bucking and on revs it acts like theres a rev limiter in it goes to 3 grand and starts bucking let of gas and idles ,run fine for a few blocks then does it all over again,help this a 5.0 stock from what i can tell, 5 spd maf system gen 3 alt, shorty headers,baffled sidepipes

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I can't remember what your previous thread was about, I just remembered the sidepipes.

So I'd say pull codes first, see where that points you.

Was this a new car to you, have you giving it a complete tune up yet?
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Originally Posted by 88 orangepeel notch
I can't remember what your previous thread was about, I just remembered the sidepipes.

So I'd say pull codes first, see where that points you.

Was this a new car to you, have you giving it a complete tune up yet?
changed my fuel filter,reset the idle and timing per procedures ,the problem was a bad ignition control module i got from napa, put a motor craft one in and it runs great,still has a small surge but i can live with that for now, ty u al for input
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also im getting rid of the plat plugs and got a set of autolights to put in tomarrow
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