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Old 11-12-2007, 01:47 AM
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A few days ago my car recently died on me right on start up. Out of the blue, the car turned over fine and died about 5 seconds later. Tried turning it on, and the car just would not idle. I kept the car revved up and began driving. The idle was anywhere from 300-1100. It seriously sounded like it would with a huge, untuned cam. The car reached operating temperature and it was fine. Then today, it did the same thing. Erratic idle and suddenly died. The car turned off, then I turned it back on, and everything was fine. I cleaned out the MAF, IAC valve. I know I have some issues with either my battery or alternator because my odometer resets and my gauges do the sweeping motion, but idk if that's related to it or not.

I swapped out o2's(about 4 thousand miles ago)... it could be them though, that they are not warming up right. I have about 6K miles on the TR6's, so maybe they went foul? I don't spray too often though.

Any ideas? No SES codes...



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I would check for vacuum leaks, and may as well check the plugs again you never know. How is your fuel filter?
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I swapped out the filter when I did the o2 sensors. So that should be fine.

It doesn't sputter, just idles real bad at times.
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Definitely sounds like a vacuum leak bud.




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