Hi all,
HELP!! :) My 86 240 DL just left me waiting for the tow truck for three hours tonight! Searched through the archives and couldn't find this exact problem. For a long time now, the car would run great for a few miles and then at stops would start missing, running rich and then die. The only way to keep it running was to put it in neutral. If you turn off the ignition and immediately restart it, it would be nice and smooth (no sputtering or running rich) again for another few miles. I learned to live with this problem as I couldn't figure how to fix it. After a while, it would sometimes stumble when accelerating but would keep going. Yesterday though, it started stalling at speed but only briefly. Tonight I got most of the way home and it did it much worse. Had to limp it to a parking lot by stomping on the gas several times. It now will start and idle ok for a 10 to 30 seconds and then sputter and die. If you put it in gear and try to go anywhere, it dies almost immediately. I have half a tank of fuel, have replaced in the last year the Mass Air Flow sensor and the fuel pump relay. (it also has the water proof, beefed up main fuse holder) It almost feels as if the fuel filter is plugging, but that wouldn't explain the running rich. I had the engine at idle and was looking it over and the engine just seems to loose everything for a split second several times and then just dies (make sense??) I sure hope I can get this figured out as this is my only car and I have to use it for work. Any ideas???? Thanks!