ffdet
09-25-2002, 11:01 AM
Ok.. I need a little help here. My 90 240 is having some interesting problems starting and driving.
Starting problem: Happens occasionaly. It fires up and immediately dies. It won't start again unless you let it sit for a while. I've come to the conclusion that it is flooding itself due to the smell of gas. I had it strand me at White Castles the other day and not start for 30 minutes. I finally got it started once I pulled the fuel pump fuse. It fired up right away then and ran for a good amount of time before it died from lack of fuel. Put the fuse back in and it fired up and ran fine. This is happening more frequently now.
Stumbling problem: lately it's been having an interesting stumble/studder/pause when hitting the gas. It can do one of the 3. The most frequent is the pause.. I will hit the gas, it sounds like it's attempting to increase RPM but it won't. Then all of a sudden it jerks and pulls like normal. Other times I can floor it and it still won't move. I have to let off the throttle and get back on it a couple times before it jerks and starts pulling. Other times when I hit the gas it will studder or stumble or sometimes bog and then pull fine. I do notice it seems to do it more when it's wet. I was auto-xing it this weekend and it kept bogging when I'd hit the gas and it made me quite angry.
My ideas: I'm going to clean the MAF, the TPS connectors, the TB, and replace the distributor (might be the connection to the wet weather problems???). The car has new plugs, wires, fuel filter .. so I figure this is the cheap way to start.
Any ideas what I can do??
Starting problem: Happens occasionaly. It fires up and immediately dies. It won't start again unless you let it sit for a while. I've come to the conclusion that it is flooding itself due to the smell of gas. I had it strand me at White Castles the other day and not start for 30 minutes. I finally got it started once I pulled the fuel pump fuse. It fired up right away then and ran for a good amount of time before it died from lack of fuel. Put the fuse back in and it fired up and ran fine. This is happening more frequently now.
Stumbling problem: lately it's been having an interesting stumble/studder/pause when hitting the gas. It can do one of the 3. The most frequent is the pause.. I will hit the gas, it sounds like it's attempting to increase RPM but it won't. Then all of a sudden it jerks and pulls like normal. Other times I can floor it and it still won't move. I have to let off the throttle and get back on it a couple times before it jerks and starts pulling. Other times when I hit the gas it will studder or stumble or sometimes bog and then pull fine. I do notice it seems to do it more when it's wet. I was auto-xing it this weekend and it kept bogging when I'd hit the gas and it made me quite angry.
My ideas: I'm going to clean the MAF, the TPS connectors, the TB, and replace the distributor (might be the connection to the wet weather problems???). The car has new plugs, wires, fuel filter .. so I figure this is the cheap way to start.
Any ideas what I can do??