Saruji

Hello, i'm brand new to this forum, so let me introduce myself, My nick is Saruji, I'm into cars and so hence I own a few. One of them happens to be a 1998 Mustang GT convertible with the 4.6 liter v8 engine. Recently I have had problems with it, the car's engine would die and not idle for a little while. I'm lazy and just thought a mechanic could fix it, brought it to the mecanic, he said, O2 sensor, I said logical enough, its cold and winter and I dont want to work on it, the mecanic replace it. Now the car doesnt die, however there is a power loss, it feels like its running rich (and smells like it too). When driving from a dead stop there is a pause and then the car accelarates, plus after your done driving and get out, you smell gas. I know this has got something to do with it running rich but havent worked on cars for so long that I dont know where to start looking. You advice?

Silver4.6

try replacing the fuel filter, 90% of the time when you can smell gas like that, thats the problem

neogenic83

Or perhaps ur 02 sensors. but most of the time when 02's are the case it is stuters