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Still can't figure it out...

posted by  someone claiming to be Bob on  Tue Jul 23 19:38 CST 2002 [RELATED]

I posted a few days back re: what I thought was a failing air mass meter.
Symptoms were that the car lost power at speed and thereafter would not accelerate or maintain any engine speed greater than idle rpm. Disconnecting the air mass meter seemed to remedy the problem, restoring normal power but leaving me with a choppy, oscillating idle and horrible gas mileage. The car also reeked of gas at idle with the meter disconnected. Don Foster diagnosed a bad FPR last Friday, and the poor mileage and raw gas odor seemed to support this diagnosis.

But here's where it gets interesting....The other day, I reconnected the amm on a whim just to see what would happen. Started the car up and to my surprise it ran just fine. Perfect idle, OK power, normal gas mileage, and no more 'raw gas' odor. And it's ran just fine ever since. But I do notice that it is not as responsive as it should be, nor as it was with the meter disconnected. Power is OK, but it bogs down on hills and when I 'floor it' it doesn't respond.

Something is definitely amiss...but what??

TIA.

-=Bob=-






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