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fuel issue,starter issue

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  • Start date Start date Oct 24, 2009

superdavestrate

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south tally fla
Oct 24, 2009
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  • Oct 24, 2009
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car smells rich ,plugs not bad,replaced plugs cap,rotor ,wires,car has intermintent missfire coming off of throttle,engine idles but runs kinda rough,car seems to run fine when into throttle,no check engine light,and I put a vacuum gauge on it no real trouble,not a Fuel injection wizard,also still chasing starter problem starter acts like solenoid is sticking like its still engaging, have replaced starter and solenoid on firewall still does it about 3 seconds after it starts,I can pull the solenoid wire of while it's hanging up and it stops got me stumped



93 stang t-5 ,stock no pollution ,headers,6-al box new battery,alternator,flows,410's stock sensors except for 02's replaced 5 years ago,help please
 

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check your timing for the richness smell. for the solenoid thing id check the wiring to the solenoid.
 
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StangzRUs

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Do you have the power wire for the starter on the right side of the solinoid?, i have seen this being a problem before
 
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