I have an 88 GXL 113k miles, Ok the day before yesterady went to the gas station to fill the tank after that while i was going just like a half mile from the gas staion my car loose power low idle and start to launch a lot farts at low rpms, so i pulled and rev the car to 3,500 and car goes back to normal, and didn't see smoke cuz it was at night well i get home and do it again, i was in 1st then 2nd at 2k the car starts to do the same ****, lot of farts very low power so i stopped at my girl house , yesterday i changed oil sparks oil filter and it was all fine but it last like 30 min, so again i stopped it, so today i take it to a ride and same **** but more frecuent and lots of black smoke was coming out when it start to lik"flooding" and i reved , so what do u think ? is my car ready for a rebuild?

BTW in just two days ate half tank of gas, car start right away and engine feels good but then start to run shitty and almost wanting to die , thats when i rev tthe car to 3k.

What do u think?

Thx MAX





Ok that was the original post by my pal MAX and we set up a code checker from some LED's and got the AFM and Water thermo Sensor codes. What does the water thermo sensor do and could it cause sputtering and hetitations below 4k rpms?





Thanks, Santiago

 

you said it runs fine initially, ie when the car is cold. however, if the sensor isn't picking up the correct temperatures or not working at all and thinks the car is still cold even though it is warm, then the ECU might not be adding the correct fuel.



if i'm not mistaken, at startup, the engine runs rich when the engine is cold, so if it thinks it is cold all the time, that might be why it is adding too much fuel and why your gas milage sucks...

 

tee hee. Well the problem was fixed with setting the TPS and swapping in another AFM. I don't know if the problems is 100% taken care of because it happens only sometimes not after a certain amount of time or in a perticular turn or bump. for now my friends GXL is rnning ok.

 

You are gay...gay...gay! Sorry just had to do it you talked **** on all my threads just dont do it anymore.

 

Look 1 billion rotor rocket- You said if I was cool with you you would be cool with me so enough of this man. This is why I turned against you on the darkside forum before. I really don't have a problem with you as long as you act normal and not like this so please don't make me have to be an *** again. I am trying to be as helpful in your thread as possible and all I get in return is this kind of a comment??







Santiago