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Old Jul 14, 2002 | 04:34 PM
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Engine misses and tach fluctuates

Lately my car has had a low RPM miss and the tach will fluctuate up and down afew RPM's. This only happens below 3000 or 3500 RPM. Above that, the engine runs great. Just from off idle the car has no power and takes forever to really get movin'.
Anybody have any ideas?? Thanx in advance.
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Old Jul 14, 2002 | 04:40 PM
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any codes? have you tried trouble shooting? is the tune up good?
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Old Jul 14, 2002 | 04:47 PM
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No codes, did a tune when i pulled it out of winter storage
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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 07:45 PM
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I had a similar problem. Found out it was my fuel pump going out...it had only 6 psi when I finally checked the pressure. As for the tach, I'd check your pick up coil in your distributor...mine was all rusted out. Hope this helps
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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 07:53 PM
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If the above answers to this problem does not solve it . Check your vacumn lines .
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Old Jul 19, 2002 | 01:28 PM
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I had a miss and it was a broken valve spring. Might check those to.

Brad...
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Old Jul 19, 2002 | 02:14 PM
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Guages Do Not work!!

I've been trying to figure this one out for some time.
My gas gauge "lies" to me, my temp guage doesn't work at all
and neither does my fuel pressure. This is driving nme crazy. Please help!!


R.
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