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intermittent acceleration problem 200 1987

posted by  guYom on  Sat Dec 20 09:12 CST 2003
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Hi,

First you may want to try to clean your throttle body. I see you are located in Swarthmore (I am not too far, in Bryn Mawr...).

You can do that yourself. You need to remove the air intake hose (big black hose that goes from the AMM to the throttle) and spray some carburator cleaner on a rag and clean the inside of your throttle. It gets all gunked up and needs to be cleaned.

Check for cracks in the air intake hose, if it needs to be replaced try FCP Groton.com, they advertise here on the board and have very good prices.

Or if you prefer, go to to Ardmore Service (610-642-3030), Russ the owner (who is a good Volvo mechanic, he drives a Volvo himself) will do it for you for about 15 dollars or so. Tell him Guillaume sent you (silver 240 Volvo).

Next either buy the Bentley service manual from Amazon.com (about 35 dollars)or go down to Autozone on City Line avenue and get the Haynes service manual (14 dollars).

--
'89 244DL M47 158K miles






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