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My Rides Playin Games With My Head Again!

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  • Start date Start date Aug 4, 2012

kramer

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ok ... to start with its a 95 mustang 3.8 , it has a hole lot of new stuff , over a thousand dollars worth , including ignition coil, spark plug wires , spark plugs , fuel filter , cam sensor,serpentine belt, and thermostat, and also the intake plenum has been cleaned inside out.

it was running fine when one day i was driving through town and say the temp was almost in the red, so of cousre i pulled over and found someone with a water house and bled the radiator, but it didnt help much , just enough to get me home , the next day i go to start it and it acts really hesitant at idle , and idles irratically , chugging and shaking , and when you give it gas it acts a little better but not much. it basically acts like its going to die at idle , after a while it warmed up a little and idled evenly no more chugging anyway , but it was idling lower than usually at about 700 rpm . Then i cleaned out the IAC and drove it to town and t overheated again


LONG STORY SHORT.......

95 MUSTANG , WITH LOTS OF NEW , WITH HORIBLE IDLE PROBLEMS , BUCKING CHUGGING ACTING LIKE ITS GOING TO DIE UNTIL IT GETS WARM THEN IT HAS VERY LOW IDLE AND EVENTUALLY OVERHEATS.

PLEASE HELP .... IM KINDA THINKIN IT COULD BE A CATALYTIC CONVERTER , IT DOES HAVE FOUR OF THEM AND THEY HAVENT BEEN MESSED WITH SINCE 1995!
 

kramer

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stonewall oklahoma
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ok i think i might have found something , when i unplug the EGR vacum line it idles just fine , but when i plug it back on it goes back to chugging
 
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