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too many bad rebuilt AMMs 200 1983

posted by  jomarex on  Mon Oct 4 04:24 CST 2010
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I was wanting to support a local business -- Vol-Tech in Austin -- but I don't care about them any more.

After replacing a bunch of other parts that didn't make my old 240 run any leaner, I bit the bullet and paid the $300 for a rebuilt Air Mass Meter. Wouldn't run unless I kept punching the gas pedal. They traded it out for one rebuilt by another company; I put it on in the parking lot. It didn't want to idle, but I was hoping I needed to just adjust the idle somehow. Nope. Did all that adjustment-fiddlin' to no avail. Unplugged the AMM and got a nice (although still gently surging) idle.

So after a weekend of the car dying just about every time it went to idle speed, Vol-Tech guy keeps trying to tell me it couldn't possibly be two different AMMs rebuilt by two different companies; there had to be something else wrong with my car. Trying all kinds of ways to get me to pay them to work on my car (and another VT guy did the same kind of thing after I put the first bad rebuilt AMM on it). Had to keep telling him over and over that the car idled [surgingly] fine with the old AMM, before he finally said he could try to get my old one back from the rebuilder he'd already sent it to.

Car does seem to be running better at speeds above idle, with this "new" AMM, but I can't have it dying all the time. Got to check the gas mileage, see if it's getting better than 15mpg.

I have read on these Brickboards that it's hard to find a good rebuilt or new AMM. Guess I'll try to see if there are any good used ones anywhere.






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