little help here
yea unfortunately.... any thoughts mike?
01-24-2010, 11:06 AM
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The first time I remember the car doing this to me I had just checked the fuel pressure to see how fast it leaked down. After I finished that, I put a cone k&n filter on it. after I started down the road the car felt like it lost a lot of hp nd the only thing I could think of at the time was that the new filter was choking it out, so I decided to put the paper filter back in, and it ran fine for about another week,when it started doing it again. I drove it to school and hooked up the f/p guage.I took it down the road and it done fine, so I took the guage off and got on it again, so once more it started to stutter. I got the timing light out and timed it and that seemed to fix the problem. It's been doing it off and on for about 2 months, but sometimes it seems to do it worse when it's cold. I ordered some new plug wires last night, I just hope there's nothing severe wrong with it
01-25-2010, 12:45 PM
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It looks like its lagging. is there a sputter? my computer speakers are **** and there was alot of wind in the vid. Because mine did the exact same thing and the fuel pump was bad. it put out correct pressure and worked under a load, but as soon as you put it over 2.5k on the tach it went to ****.
01-25-2010, 12:48 PM
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It looks like its lagging. is there a sputter? my computer speakers are **** and there was alot of wind in the vid. Because mine did the exact same thing and the fuel pump was bad. it put out correct pressure and worked under a load, but as soon as you put it over 2.5k on the tach it went to ****.
01-26-2010, 02:16 PM
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What i did was just do the fuel pump and filter, i also did cap, rotor and distributor, wires and plugs. that sloved the problem. but i would put my money on the fuel pump.
another way to tell. when you turn the car to "on" but not run, you should here the pump give off a sound, its really kinda loud for a fuel pump if good but if you dont hear it or its weak then swap it out for i nice new one. they will run the car but do nothing else.
another way to tell. when you turn the car to "on" but not run, you should here the pump give off a sound, its really kinda loud for a fuel pump if good but if you dont hear it or its weak then swap it out for i nice new one. they will run the car but do nothing else.
