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No power 2 years ago. This forum said to check Cat Convert. And to do fuel pump pressure checks. Put in test pipe. Had new car. No emission check this state. Left in. Went back to bad. But it took about 2 years for same bad performance to show up. Floor board and lose speed. Back off throttle and gain speed. Only car I have owned that gained speed letting off the throttle. Replaced fuel pump, strainer, and fuel filter. Ran great for 2 weeks. Started running bad again. Before fuel pump change spark plugs white from too lean. Replaced ton of vacuum hoses that you could touch with finger and they would crumble. Little plastic buggers. Ran great again. For awhile. Went bad again. Changed plugs and wiring. No good. In total darkness, ran motor, and no spark jump on coil. With new fuel pump, etc change, sparkys now black from running too rich. That is why I changed the wires and sparkys out. Sparkys last changed 50,000 before. New did not change anything. New wires did not change anyting.
Guru on radio talk show said evap filter plugged up. Will run too rich. Disconnected lines to evap can, and ran great for another 2 weeks. Thought prob solved again. Back to same thing again. Codes come up 32 and 62. With 199,000 plus miles do not want to put much into it. EGR replacement around $300. And that might not be the prob. Cruise control works perfect. As long as engine temp stays under 150 degrees it runs great. That seems to be the threshold. Hotter engine gets, doggier it runs. Cold, I can turn the tires and it pulls hard. Low compression, would not let motor turn tires and pull like mad when engine just cool. HAS to be another prob other than low compression. Know about piston swell. They do not swell and cylinder bores stretch that much to change the performance as much as I have. Running temp, can hardly get down the road. Back way off throttle, and can do 85Mph as long as I don't get over 1/4 throttle. Go to half throttle, and does not gain speed, but does not lose either. Feel it missing.
I am missing something here in my head. Going to do check on vacuum lines again. Thinking new MAP sensor. But so many nickel and dime solutions. Every change I made, made it better, but it goes BACK to same condition after time to the same prob. Here is another prob. I am 58 years old, so am old school. I used to super tune 440 SixPac's. Could make small block Chev's beat anyone elses. Carb motor I know what to do. What used to be simple is no longer. Long in years, short on change. Ideas anyone???
Guru on radio talk show said evap filter plugged up. Will run too rich. Disconnected lines to evap can, and ran great for another 2 weeks. Thought prob solved again. Back to same thing again. Codes come up 32 and 62. With 199,000 plus miles do not want to put much into it. EGR replacement around $300. And that might not be the prob. Cruise control works perfect. As long as engine temp stays under 150 degrees it runs great. That seems to be the threshold. Hotter engine gets, doggier it runs. Cold, I can turn the tires and it pulls hard. Low compression, would not let motor turn tires and pull like mad when engine just cool. HAS to be another prob other than low compression. Know about piston swell. They do not swell and cylinder bores stretch that much to change the performance as much as I have. Running temp, can hardly get down the road. Back way off throttle, and can do 85Mph as long as I don't get over 1/4 throttle. Go to half throttle, and does not gain speed, but does not lose either. Feel it missing.
I am missing something here in my head. Going to do check on vacuum lines again. Thinking new MAP sensor. But so many nickel and dime solutions. Every change I made, made it better, but it goes BACK to same condition after time to the same prob. Here is another prob. I am 58 years old, so am old school. I used to super tune 440 SixPac's. Could make small block Chev's beat anyone elses. Carb motor I know what to do. What used to be simple is no longer. Long in years, short on change. Ideas anyone???
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