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Hello all,
Today I started checking over the latest buy, a '98, 2.3, 5 sp, standard cab with a 167k.
The truck runs pretty good, but it has what almost feels like a crossfire when coming off an idle. This is very profound when the engine is cold. Once the engine reaches temperature the stumble is just about gone.
Its sounds almost like the engine is trying to reverse direction. A real gnarly sound that I sure don't want to repeat to many times.
The scanner shows nothing out of the norm. (Scrap on Solus)
One of the coils was after market, so I traded out the coils for known to be good coils, this changed nothing.
The coolant sensors, and the TPS are working normally. IAC has no issues.
Crank and Cam sensors? Who knows, the scanner doesn't show any information on what those sensors are doing.
I'm baffled. Anyone ever run across anything like this? Anyone feel that the crank or cam sensors might be the cause?
The truck is stock, right down to the gas cap and the radio, and all of the wiring, including the plug wires, looks to be in very good condition.
Thanks for any ideas.
Today I started checking over the latest buy, a '98, 2.3, 5 sp, standard cab with a 167k.
The truck runs pretty good, but it has what almost feels like a crossfire when coming off an idle. This is very profound when the engine is cold. Once the engine reaches temperature the stumble is just about gone.
Its sounds almost like the engine is trying to reverse direction. A real gnarly sound that I sure don't want to repeat to many times.
The scanner shows nothing out of the norm. (Scrap on Solus)
One of the coils was after market, so I traded out the coils for known to be good coils, this changed nothing.
The coolant sensors, and the TPS are working normally. IAC has no issues.
Crank and Cam sensors? Who knows, the scanner doesn't show any information on what those sensors are doing.
I'm baffled. Anyone ever run across anything like this? Anyone feel that the crank or cam sensors might be the cause?
The truck is stock, right down to the gas cap and the radio, and all of the wiring, including the plug wires, looks to be in very good condition.
Thanks for any ideas.