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giper24

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When I put my car in gear the engine starts to try to stall out but when I move it in to park or netural it seems to run fine any have any thoughts on what could be causeing it to stall when I move it into drive or reverse.
 
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Yea, any one of a dozen things. You'll have to be a little more specific. Try removing the air cleaner lid for starters and see if the choke plate isn't closed and blocking off the air flow.
 
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chokes open I noticed that my coil was very hot so i switched it out with another coil that we had but it really didn't change anything
 
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Does it immediately die, or does it just run like crap when this happens?
 

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it could be the idle when i put my car into drive or reverse my idle goes down and have to rev it to keep it going....
 
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well 2 of my spark plugs were lose seems to work fine after I tightend them up
 
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So it's all cleared up now ? Problem solved ?
 
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all good = ) thanks for the help guys
 
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