Please help, car is acting up.
Please help, car is acting up. I have no idea what forum this belongs in. I was driving tonight and my car started idleing at like 400 rpm or going dead when I stop at stop lights, also, when I was barely on the gas cruising, it was jerking, like it was missing, or cam surging. I do have a cam, 227/227 .564 .564 114 but I have had it in for about a month and a half now. It is also seeming to run rich as hell, you can smell gas bad. Also, if I got it up into the rpm's it started acting fine, and I don't think I have broke a spring, because it sounds perfect, it also backfires alot when it does this. I ataped it and I had the misfire code that cams get and I have faulty 02 heater code on both sides. Could it be my 02's? Also, REALLY wierd is that my reverse lockout is engaged, it is hard as hell to get it into reverse, but the speedo works and is not unpluged. What could all this be? I am changing my 02's this week for preventative matienence, but could there be more things wrong?
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Re: Please help, car is acting up. LOL your car is fulling apart! jk <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> My car did that once. I cranked it up and was driving home and when I'd come to a stop it would go dead if I didnt keep my foot on the gas. I don't have a cam or anything tho. Mine went away when I turned the car off and started it again. It was weird tho. Hope your O2 replacement fixed it.
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Re: Please help, car is acting up. Well, if the condition clears up as you climb in rpm and it drives normal at anything other than idle speed, then it certainly isn't a broken spring. Maybe you have developed a vacuum leak? The O2 heater code might be due to the O2s being farther back in the exhaust stream if you have LT headers. I've seen this quite often with SLP LTs in particular...
Re: Please help, car is acting up. </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by RPM WS6:
<strong> Well, if the condition clears up as you climb in rpm and it drives normal at anything other than idle speed, then it certainly isn't a broken spring. Maybe you have developed a vacuum leak? The O2 heater code might be due to the O2s being farther back in the exhaust stream if you have LT headers. I've seen this quite often with SLP LTs in particular... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where do you think I would have a vacuum leak that would affect this? I would have no idea where to start first trying to figure that one out.
<strong> Well, if the condition clears up as you climb in rpm and it drives normal at anything other than idle speed, then it certainly isn't a broken spring. Maybe you have developed a vacuum leak? The O2 heater code might be due to the O2s being farther back in the exhaust stream if you have LT headers. I've seen this quite often with SLP LTs in particular... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where do you think I would have a vacuum leak that would affect this? I would have no idea where to start first trying to figure that one out.
Re: Please help, car is acting up. SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. WENT TO DEALER AND GOT IT LOOKED AT AND THEY SAID MY O2 SENSOR WENT INTO A CLOSED LOOP MODE. BOUGHT A NEW O2 SENSOR AND NO MORE PROBLEMS.
