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Fuel Pump Relay? ECU? Tune Up? 200 1991

posted by  someone claiming to be Lisa on  Sun Jun 24 04:59 CST 2001 [RELATED]

Hello bricksters,

Want your input. Smelled burnt smell. Stopped at a plaza for about 1/2 hour and when came out and tried to start it, would turn over but die immediately unless kept foot on gas. Sputter and hesitate big time. Turned it over at least 8 times, then called tow truck. When asked to back it out, had to put foot on brake and foot on gas so engine wouldn't die. Then, funny thing was, once car was moving, could maintain the idle, but still choppy.

Weather had been hot and humid past week but had cooled off significantly that day.

Dealer had difficulty finding the problem at first. Said spark plug wires and heads were burnt. Replaced fuel pump relay and gave car tune up and cleaned throttle body. Seems fine, but said ECU may go.

Is this a common problem of 240's? Asked why it happened, said because I failed to do a tune up. Did one at 138,000. Throttle body cleaned around same time.

Sound familiar to anyone else? What can I expect. More problems, more bills?

Thanks!





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