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I thought I had it fixed :(


RustedRanger

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Joined
Mar 25, 2009
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City
Farmland IN
Vehicle Year
1987
Transmission
Manual
You can read my last post "Miss at idle" to see what I have done. I thought it was running good.....but,it's running worse each time I drive it and now the oil has gas in it,yet again! When I changed the plugs last week (again) I rechecked the fuel pressure and it was right at 40psi and held the pressure with the key on engine off. With it running at idle it was 31 psi. At idle it is not really missing just rough and you can see the motor shake and now it shakes off idle when I come down our lane. The plugs looked decent when I changed them but I thought maybe they got soaked with gas before I changed the FPR. The coolant is full and no bubbles with it running and no sign of white smoke out the tailpipe or milky residue under the oil cap. No codes,only 11 system pass. When I first started working on it I had the fuel filter resevoir open before I knew it had the other filter at the front and the check vavle was turned sideways inside of it so I drilled it out but I don't see how that could be causing the problem since before I changed the FPR it at least ran smooth cold. I'm stumped and ready to pay $50 for my friend who does mobil diagnostics to find the problem. This sucks cause I already paid $62 a month and half ago and they couldn't find anything wrong after spending four hours looking,but then it ran fine for them :( I'm starting to wish someone would rear end me and total it.
 
have you done a compression check??

have you doubled checked the grounds and connections...even main battery cables.

If this is a continuation of the same situation... it might be best to continue original post. Those who are try to help can see a progression of things tried and suggestions made.
 
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I havent checked the compression. I have checked all the grounds several times and the first place I took it to checked the grounds. I'm having my friend that does mobile diagnostics look at it tomorrow. I really hope and pray that it is not something internal wrong with the engine but I don't think it is since it ran good last week and started running worse again the last three times I drove it and I don't beat on it. Thanks IM,God Bless
 

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