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Old 08-19-2009, 08:58 PM
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Hay guys, I have a 95 gt 5.0 and it won't idle at all. If you hold the gas down it'll run fine for a while, about 1 minute or so then the check engine light goes out. And as soon as that happens it starts missing really bad and blowing black smoke out the pipes. If you keep it running it will eventually straiten up and run smooth again, But still won't idle. I tried to pull codes and it won't work it clicks one sensor and then dose nothing. I had the ignition module checked and it was good. I changed the tps,cleaned the maf sensor and checked all the connections. The check engine light going out and missing has me thinking there is something wrong with the computer. But if I unhook the maf sensor it doesn't do it. It just hesitates when you vary first touch the throttle because of it being unhooked. I'm stumped!!!!! Any help will be awesome thanks.
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Old 08-19-2009, 09:01 PM
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your burning rich. how long has it been since it had a tune up
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Old 08-19-2009, 09:10 PM
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what method are you using to pull codes?? my guess is your doing it wrong......google DIY KOER and look for joel5.0's write up.
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Originally Posted by mustangsneverdie
your burning rich. how long has it been since it had a tune up
About A year ago new plugs, wires, cap, rotor and a maf sensor. If it just needed A tune up needed why would it only miss in intervals?
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Old 08-19-2009, 09:23 PM
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it could be that your injectors aren't pulsing their just constantly on crank the car and pull a spark plug out and see what it looks like
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Originally Posted by mjr46
what method are you using to pull codes?? my guess is your doing it wrong......google DIY KOER and look for joel5.0's write up.
Ok guys, I used joel5.0's method to pull codes and I got from self test 159 MAF sensor fault above or below voltage. And from stored codes 157 MAF sensor fault low voltage, 158 MAF sensor fault high voltage, 332 insufficient EGR flow detected. So my question is should I replace these or is there something else that causes them to do this? Again thanks.
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I wouldn't worry about the egr one just yet, if you have a known good maf put it in and retest
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:00 AM
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check for bad grounds, there may be one near the battory that goes from battory to chassis wall then plugs into cable, sometimes there is a connector there that gets eaten with acid, and you get erratic ground, erratic performance
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I'd imagine the MAF codes are because you've been running it with the MAF unplugged.
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