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Old Mar 2, 2006 | 10:59 PM
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ok so i just fount out that when you have a walbro fuel pump your not supossed to run the car when is low on gas, wich i did all the time for like 3 months!!!! well last time it hapenned the car started to run a little rought!!! my a/f gauge is not working properly and you can smell gas really strong from like 3 feet away!!!! my ses light came on 2!! and it reads my bank one o2 was bad and another one sayin somethion about the air to fuel mixture!!! what do you guys think fuel pump went bad??? or something else!! i prob. put 4000 mile on fuel pump!
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Ususally when a pump goes out you just don't get fuel at all and the car simply won't start. I'd replace the 02 sensor and go from there. A bad sensor will cause the car to run crappy.
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Old Mar 3, 2006 | 03:32 PM
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yea that was the first thing i did, and same problem
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Old Mar 3, 2006 | 06:14 PM
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ok so i jusss took of the fuelpump and everything seems fine 2 me!!! so maybe is not the fuel pump
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anyone??????
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not the fuel pump ,filter maybe but you would be running lean.
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OK I JUSS GOT THE CODES THAT TREW MY SES LIGHT!!
P0131 (M) 1/1 O2 Sensor Shorted To Ground Oxygen sensor input voltage maintained below normal operating range. (READ THIS CODE TWICE)
P1133 Heated Oxygen Sensor (HO2S) Insufficient Switching Bank 1 Sensor 1(READ THIS CODE TWICE)
P1134 Heated Oxygen Sensor (HO2S) Transition Time Ratio Bank 1 Sensor 1

ANY IDEA WHAT THESE MEANS THESE IS REALLY WEIRD!!! i ALSO REPLACED THE FILTER AND SAME PROBLEM STILL!!!!
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had those same codes when my wiring shorted on the passenger side by the header.wiring for the oil level sensor,oxygen sensor,starter crank sensor are in that black plastic covering. check by the header.i thought it was a oxygen sensor.
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i see the black plastic cover that connects to the sensor and everything but all the wires seem fine to me how do i check to see which wire is short??
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