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69BirdX 04-09-2009 11:01 AM

Hesitation??
 
My 98 has been running rough and has a slight hesitation. After letting off the gas the car will coast for about 10 sec and try and stall once. It wont try again till after i give it gas and coast again. I feel no lack of power on accel. Car felt great at atco last week but the hesitation is getting worse. The car throws no codes. I had it on a scanner and the o2, maf, and other sensors seem to be fine. It shows no knock, no misses. Sounds kinda like a vacum leak but sprayed around under the hood with 2+2 and couldnt find anything. Any Ideas? Im gonna check the fuel presure later today but i figured if that was going my car would be runnin lean and knockin. Fuel filter is new and just did an oil change not to long ago. I also changed out my tune.

WildBillyT 04-09-2009 11:18 AM

Seems like you are debugging the way I would. I'd hook it up to a vacuum gauge and check the fuel pressure as well.

sweetbmxrider 04-09-2009 11:35 AM

what did you change on the tune? i would revert back to what you had and see if the problem is still there.

69BirdX 04-09-2009 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider (Post 572967)
what did you change on the tune? i would revert back to what you had and see if the problem is still there.

I changed the tune to one i knew that was good to see if the problem went away but it happend with both tunes something is out of wack

sweetbmxrider 04-09-2009 04:04 PM

ah ok. how old are the plugs? no exhaust leaks? how are the O2 's?

69BirdX 04-09-2009 04:15 PM

o2s are reading fine. i have and had a slight exhaust leak for awhile and i need to do plugs but i dont think that is the problem

alamantia 04-09-2009 04:35 PM

egr valve?

69BirdX 04-09-2009 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by alamantia (Post 573046)
egr valve?

ahh best tip yet. but wouldnt that set a code?

alamantia 04-09-2009 06:50 PM

if it was stuck closed not opening

69BirdX 04-09-2009 07:37 PM

so its stuck open which wont throw a code

JL8Jeff 04-10-2009 10:42 AM

Where's your exhaust leak? If it's before the O2 sensors then they are getting bad information and the computer will be doing the wrong thing. A small vacuum leak will also cause the computer to make adjustments which could lead to an almost stall condition.

69BirdX 04-10-2009 10:48 AM

i think its after the cats but ive had the exahust leak since ive owned the car and just started having this problem within the last 2 weeks. the car also doest throw any codes

JL8Jeff 04-10-2009 12:30 PM

A decent scan tool can show more than codes. Sensors that are almost out of range but not quite enough to trigger the cel. There might be not ready conditions stored as well. You should try to find someone that can plug something in and watch your car run while it's happening. Looking at the O2 readings and fuel trims might help show if it's loading up or leaning out for a brief moment.

sweetbmxrider 04-10-2009 03:02 PM

i believe he has the ability to watch datastream as he said,
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I had it on a scanner and the o2, maf, and other sensors seem to be fine. It shows no knock, no misses.

69BirdX 04-10-2009 08:37 PM

i watched with my tuner and a snap on scanner (brick). Im gonna check the egr tommorrow and also crank sensor, clean my maf, and do plugs

JL8Jeff 04-11-2009 10:32 AM

I have a spare EGR if you wanted to borrow it. But you could probably just disconnect the wire harness from the EGR and let it throw the code and then find out if the hesitation goes away. Have you cleaned your throttle body recently? The LS1 pulls a ton of vacuum and that pulls oil vapor through the pcv and really makes the TB dirty. You might want to pull that off and clean it and the passages and iac really good. You can do the coolant bypass while you're at it.

69BirdX 04-11-2009 10:58 AM

that sounds like a good idea. I ran my car without the filter in down the track and i have no screen since the one that was in there was messed up. So its a good possibility that the tb is dirty


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