Date:         Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:20:38 -0400
Reply-To:     "John H. Lauterbach" <john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
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From:         "John H. Lauterbach" <john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
Organization: Lauterbach & Associates, LLC
Subject:      Re: Loss of power no excelleration from stop
Comments: To: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
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Hello Eric.  This happened to me numerous times before and after I had put a
Boston Bob 1.9L in my van to replace the engine in it when I bought it in 1997.
Said problems would often happen in the mornings when I would drive a few
blocks, come to the stop sign at main road, and then accelerate.  Not much
sometimes.  Only thing I could tie it too was the O2 sensor was making the
mixture too rich until the engine was fully warm.  Dirt on the connector between
the FI cable and the FI microprocessor will also cause that along with a bad
connection between AFM and FI cable.  John

On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 21:40 -0400, Eric Caron wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Wow! One thing after another, but I’m beating back the problems as they arrive.
>
> This one is very important as potentially dangerous.
>
> I wrote about a one time  incident that happened on a wet day.  This time the same thing happened on a very dry day.
>
> We came up to a intersection and all seemed fine.  We step on the gas and the van doesn’t excellerate.  It just sort of idles and stumbles a bit.  Then I here a couple of small backfire sounds.  Then after a bit the van finds its legs and starts running again.  We basically kept the foot on the gas during this time.  Scarey as traffic is coming at us.
>
> I’m going to change the fuel filters but not rally sure what else to try.
>
> Fuel is non Ethanol high grade and I already ran sea foam this spring and even a bit of stable blue, in the fuel.
>
> Tips and suggestions wanted!
>
> Eric Caron
> 85 GL Auto