ajeeperman

I know it sounds weird, but you should remove all the battery terminals and
clean them WELL.
wash with baking soda paste(mixed with water) and sc**** them clean.
Then rinse off the soda paste with clean watter and make sure all are clean.
This has happened to me 1999 tahoe and friends other chevrolet(and ford)
owners.
it would still turn over and start, but run rough and die momentarily.
the cleaning fixed it for three years now.

old john
do it!

sblackfoot

and

clean.


I guess it's worth a shot. The worst part is that to see if the problem is
solved I'll have to take it back over the skyway. I'd hate to have to call
my Jeep buddy for a drag back home.

sblackfoot

Hmm... I do have a spare one from a junkyard truck I could swap in... I
wonder if I have any thermal compound left.

jlarsson

I wasn't thinking so much that it was bad, just that maybe it was
loose, hence the intermittent nature of your problem.

JLarsson

no one

All you did was RESET the computer !!!

charles bendig

First NAPA should either carry, or be able to order for you the Proper
fuel pressure tester, with adapter. You might have to ask to see the
tool catalog and look for it your self.

First check should be your Spark System. Check the cap,rotor, plug
wires. Check the plugs. Then check the coil, and the plugs/termials on
the coil.

Then check the TBI. A bad or dirty TPS can cause "Bucking". If you go
to WOT after it bucking, if you see black or grey smoke the engine is
loading up. This is caused by the TPS sending a signal for more fuel
then needed.
Charles

sblackfoot

To update, I pulled the plugs one by one and took a good look. None were wet
and they all looked exactly the same, definitely good. Slight oil smell
(maybe gas, but smelled more like oil). Just for the hell of it I swapped in
a coil I grabbed from a junkyard truck a while back, sanded down any little
deposits inside the cap, and replaced the #1 spark plug with an odd plug I
had lying around (broke the damned thing while pulling it, an hour after the
parts stores closed. What a week...). A little later I think I'll head out
to the Skyway and see what happens...

jlarsson

Well? What happened? Hope you're not still out there some where.

JLarsson

sblackfoot

lol I didn't think anyone was still paying attention.

I chickened out that night. The Skyway sure would be a crappy place to break
down. I did try it this afternoon though, with a buddy and his XJ with me
just in case. Jimmy made it up and over without so much as a puff of smoke.
Maybe it was the fuel filter after all. It'll take a week or two of making
that trip every day before I'm 100% convinced.

autohobbyist@webtv.net (rich

Had a similar problem on a '90 burb 5.7 and after trying to find it for
over a year and a half, I finally stumbled onto it by accident. Turned
out to be a fuel injector that was acting up intermittently and then
finally died about a mile from the house.


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