Folks, I recently got my auto tranny rebuilt - reference yesterday's post about that. Now the van shifts like a dream. However, it came home with a problem it didn't have when I dropped it off. The van sat for 6 weeks, with very little drive time (test drives by the tranny rebuilder, perhaps). It had 1/3 of a tank of gas during that time. When I dropped it off, it ran great. None of the hesitation and stumbling that some of my fellow TIICo-nauts were experiencing. Now, I've got them in spades. If you accelerate sslloowwllyy, the engine will pick up the rpm just fine (though it seems way down on power, almost as bad as a stock engine ;-)). But if you "punch" it, the engine bogs (bahhhhhhhwwwaaaaaaaa......vroom), hesitates, spits and stumbles before finally picking up the rpm. I put some injector cleaner and some dry gas into the tank yesterday, but don't have enough gas through the engine to tell if that helped. I also changed the fuel filter, and that didn't help at all. Everything seems to be in place, though I will do a more thorough hose and wire check tomorrow. Any great ideas out there? Bob East Haddam, CT |
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