[Re: idling, running problems...HELP before I get killed intraffic!!!!!]

[losinit@usa.net (Cathy Boyko)]

--- Dubdaze68@aol.com wrote:
> a nasty running problem has made itself known in a big
> way in the =

> 'rocc....16v, backfiring and sputtering at idle, missing
> badly all through =

> the range....at first it got better after it had been
> run, but now it just =

> shows up randomly, usually at the worst times (like when
> I go to merge on a =

> busy street, I accelerate, and it just DIES, still
> running, but not going =

> anywhere...) seems the only time it will accelerate
> normally is when the full =

> throttle enrichment switch is depressed...then the car
> accelerates like a bat =

> out of hell, which is not, repeat, NOT fun when it's icy
> out... could it be =

> the O2 sensor? the coolant temp sensor?  what?

Mine had a very dead O2 sensor and did NOT do this, but it was also runni=
ng
very rich at the time, the mix needed adjusting. I did have similar sympt=
oms
when the crankcase vent hose (on the front of the engine, hope that's the=

right name) had a gaping hole in it, cut by the clamp. Sorry not to be mo=
re
helpful. =

Cathy