pvt num 11
Finally driving it
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2005
Long post. Sorry, but I tend to be very verbose about things.
I guess when I replaced my driver's front tire Monday with a KDW, some juju in the car didn't like it. Tuesday, I noticed that the car was running a bit rough in the morning. Went home for lunch, and the car was running rougher. Yesterday it felt totally gutless, and I could see the smoke behind me as it putted (literally putted, stumbling and just running crappy) along. Got home, unplugged the MAF, idle got a little better, so I thought I might have a bad MAF. Left it unplugged. Started it this morning, and it wouldn't stay lit off, without a bit of help from my foot. I shrugged that off and tried to let it warm up. Okay, idle is a bit better, but when I dropped it in gear, it died out. Wife yells at me to just take her car and forget about it for now. Stubborn self plugs the MAF back in, idle is crappy again, but it doens't die when I put it in gear. Drive to work. I've avoided boost since Monday, as the speed limits where I live are only 15 MPH, and on base it's 30, and I only live three miles (if that) from work. Final stretch of road this morning, and I can see the fuel-rich cloud behind me again, had to wave a car past me (Audi TT convertible) and then the car suddenly ran lots better for about thirty seconds, enough for me to get going faster then TWENTY, which was what I was stumbling along at - the car just refused, flat out refused to get over twenty or so. Felt like I had a lawnmower engine under my hood - did someone steal my LC2 when I was asleep...? Nope, still there...
All of that to ask this... I don't have my digital camera (we moved recently) and I think I have a vacuum line unplugged. By the valve cover breather on the driver's side, there's this truncated cone looking thing, and it has a vacuum line going to a connector right by the breather. That line is just flapping in the wind as it is now, I don't know how long it's been that way. Is that my fuel pressure regulator? I tried finding a stock engine bay picture so I could point it out here, but I can't find one.
I used some TB cleaning spray Saturday, cleaned up a bunch of crud that was in there, car ran like a CHAMP this Monday when I was going to get my tire, so I'm wondering if a sensor finally decided to die. I do not have a scanmaster - I'm going to beg from my Hawaiian GN friends (quicker6 moved, darn it...!) to see if anyone can help, but I figured I'd ask here first, more for suggestions on possible things to look for, and what the frag this vacuum line is stuck to.
I guess when I replaced my driver's front tire Monday with a KDW, some juju in the car didn't like it. Tuesday, I noticed that the car was running a bit rough in the morning. Went home for lunch, and the car was running rougher. Yesterday it felt totally gutless, and I could see the smoke behind me as it putted (literally putted, stumbling and just running crappy) along. Got home, unplugged the MAF, idle got a little better, so I thought I might have a bad MAF. Left it unplugged. Started it this morning, and it wouldn't stay lit off, without a bit of help from my foot. I shrugged that off and tried to let it warm up. Okay, idle is a bit better, but when I dropped it in gear, it died out. Wife yells at me to just take her car and forget about it for now. Stubborn self plugs the MAF back in, idle is crappy again, but it doens't die when I put it in gear. Drive to work. I've avoided boost since Monday, as the speed limits where I live are only 15 MPH, and on base it's 30, and I only live three miles (if that) from work. Final stretch of road this morning, and I can see the fuel-rich cloud behind me again, had to wave a car past me (Audi TT convertible) and then the car suddenly ran lots better for about thirty seconds, enough for me to get going faster then TWENTY, which was what I was stumbling along at - the car just refused, flat out refused to get over twenty or so. Felt like I had a lawnmower engine under my hood - did someone steal my LC2 when I was asleep...? Nope, still there...
All of that to ask this... I don't have my digital camera (we moved recently) and I think I have a vacuum line unplugged. By the valve cover breather on the driver's side, there's this truncated cone looking thing, and it has a vacuum line going to a connector right by the breather. That line is just flapping in the wind as it is now, I don't know how long it's been that way. Is that my fuel pressure regulator? I tried finding a stock engine bay picture so I could point it out here, but I can't find one.
I used some TB cleaning spray Saturday, cleaned up a bunch of crud that was in there, car ran like a CHAMP this Monday when I was going to get my tire, so I'm wondering if a sensor finally decided to die. I do not have a scanmaster - I'm going to beg from my Hawaiian GN friends (quicker6 moved, darn it...!) to see if anyone can help, but I figured I'd ask here first, more for suggestions on possible things to look for, and what the frag this vacuum line is stuck to.
