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Mystery Power Loss 200

Here is a fun one that's not been so fun now and again for me.

Have an 88' 240 wagon 150k. Ever since owning the car, two years, I've had intermitent power loss. At first it was real bad, it wouldn't go hardly at all much of the time. Often the problem would be solved by simply restarting. Since those early bad times, a few things were replaced and the problem is relatively rare and the power loss is only severe when stomping the gas and when you want to go over 60 or so, pass etc. The transfer pump, main pump, pump relay, ECU, Line Pressure regulator are all newish and the problem still occurs. Seems to leave the Air Mass Meter. Did try two or three used ones and some made it much worse from the git go but can't remember if any were just the same, none solved it. There may be an adjustment nessesary to get the mass meter to work right. Remember, the problem is usually instantly solved by turning the engine off (often without stopping) for the shortest period. Sometimes it will come back fairly soon on a long trip, sometimes not, but it will nearly always be solved that way.

Happy Troubleshooting.








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Mystery Power Loss 200

This is almost exactly the symptoms that one of my 87's had. Almost total power loss at full throttle- OK the rest of the time. Turned out to be the connection at the AMM. I replaced it which solved the problem but then tried the old one again, and all was well. It was either not seated all the way in the connector, or a pin in the connector was making lousy contact. Either way it made me chase down a bunch of other problems, including an inoperable in-tank pump, and it ALWAYS was fine again after a restart.
Your 88 has the same fuel injection- I'd go after that AMM.
Good luck!
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '87 244DL/M47- 220K, 87 244DL- 230K, 88 744GLE- 198K, 91 244 180K, 88 244GL 145K








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Mystery Power Loss 200

Had a little trouble figuring out what AMM (air mass meter) was. I'll try cleaning out the pin seats and maybe tightning them up. It is possible because something improved it quite a bit at some point and I had meters in and out of it several times during that attempt phase. It's gotta be something AMMy though. Not anything left to replace really.







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