Brian
At 06:29 PM 7/14/98 PDT, jackmindy wrote:
>What's the mileage? Sounds like your cat. converter packing it in.?>
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>> I have an 89 405 Mi16 which has developed some sort of running problem.
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>> Upon cold start, the engine would start on the 1st or 2nd try, but miss and
>> such for 20 seconds or so, then surge to 2000rpm and fall back down to
>> 1200.....idling "smooth" by what the tach said, but the exhaust note told a
>> story of slight missing.
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>> When you first pulled away, the car had no power, and for the first 100ft,
>> would hesitate and bog....almost like there was a lack of fuel. Then it was
>> fine.
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>> But over the past week or so......it would take 4 or 5 tries to
>> start....each time the car would "start" instantly, then die immediatly. I
>> could speed this process up by priming the gas pedal. (yes..like in a
>> carburated car.)
>> And...when the car finally did start, and was idling terribly, a little jab
>> on the gas pedal would clear it up for 5 seconds or so.
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>> It is fairly smooth running at constant speed.....but when you abruptly
>> change throttle..like floor it or something....it will hesitate a
>> little.....almost like it is bogging down or something.
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>> If I can at a light, and floor it from a stop...I get surging all the way to
>> redline.....One of out 5 or 8 tries will the car feel like it has full
>> power, I will think the problem is solved, but to know avail.
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>> To try and solve this problem, I have installed a new air filter, new plugs,
>> new cap and rotor, new fuel filter, and run a bottle of Techron
>> through.....nothing has helped.
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>> I was thinking of getting new spark plug wires.....as well..but that is not
>> what I think this problem is.
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>> This sounds fuel pumpish to me? Anyone else concur? Anything else? I
>> have looked through the archives looking for this problem...I have seen
>> someone cleaning out the emissions equipment, someone else fixing a vacuum
>> leak. But I wouldnt think the vacuum leak would hurt anything at high rpm.
>> This problem is all the way through the power band.
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>> Thanks in advance!
>> Brian
>> Seattle, WA
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>> Brian J White
>> bwhite@thepoint.net
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