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Old Jul 28, 2004 | 01:38 AM
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Car: 1990 Camaro
Engine: 355ci
Transmission: TKO-600 5 speed
Axle/Gears: 3.73 10 bolt
need help! :(

Okay forget EVERYTHING i said before if you were following the threads i had.

Heres the story, car was running just fine and then all of a sudden started stumbling and backfiring like crazy. Now when i crank the motor it will only stay running if i give it a bit of gas as soon as i get off the throttle it bogs out and dies. The engine will stay running as long as i give it gas but if i try to drive it to the end of the street and back it will start stumbling and backfiring. Also when its running it smells rich as a pig.

On a side note when the car is cranking the oil pressure gauge goes all the way to the right when cranking like normal but then once it starts running it goes all the way to the left. As far as i remember it usually settled pretty quickly right in the middle as far as i remembered.

(to people who were following my earlier thread i figured out why my tach got messed up and it had nothing to do with my problem stupid wiring thing i messed up by accident but is fixed now)

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Old Jul 28, 2004 | 04:11 AM
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never followed any of your other threads. have you tried trouble shooting? tune up good? scanned it for codes? might be a good place to start.
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Old Jul 28, 2004 | 12:13 PM
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already scanned for codes and got nothing, basically looking for advice that based on those symptoms im looking for advice on what i should trouble shoot first. A car needs air fuel spark compression and timing to run. I can promise its not an air or compression related problem. Also it smells rich as a pig so i doubt its fuel related. The problem just suddenly happened so my mind is leaning towards something like the ecm or wow ignorance moment here our cars use an ignition module right? is that different the the distributor module. Basically i need some advice as to how i should go about finding the problem. Or if anyone has experienced something similar or just thinks they know what it might be all sugestions are welcomed
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Old Jul 28, 2004 | 12:23 PM
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Car: 1990 Camaro
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Also i know my coil and my distributor module are completly fine, and i have no battery/charging problems
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Old Jul 28, 2004 | 10:20 PM
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Car: 1990 Camaro
Engine: 355ci
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Axle/Gears: 3.73 10 bolt
ttt i need help with this guys
EDIT: most recent update
Just started it up and was going to try the possibility of maybe my chip just came a bit loose in the ecm. Gave a good knock on it while it was running but didnt have any effect so scratch that theory.

When the car is just idling its flooding the motor with gas until the point where it bogs out if i dont give it a bit of extra throttle it bogs out right away.

I also still have no reading on my oil pressure gauge

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