yet another problem

[2young944]

I was entering the freeway this evening... I revved up a ways, in first and second, the car sputtered and almost died when I revved to about 3500 or 4000 and just wouldn't accelerate. Does anybody know what happened?

[TomH]

Did you make it home? Any other symptoms? Sputtering under acceleration could be a number of things:

ignition (wires/rotor/cap/coil), bad gas, dirty injectors, missed shift :-)

[Scott R]

How many miles do you have? Could be something loose inside the cat causing blockage.

[2young944]

Well, it has 123,500 miles or so. Which is a bit high. I had just had my exhaust welded together, I wondered if that had something to do with the temperature of the piping and maybe through off a sensor or something. What do y'all think?

[2young944]

123,500 miles or so. I made it home no problem, but after pretty much pinning the throttle to clear up the accelerating problem some how this then letting it idle for about a minute fixed it. Although I havnt driven it yet today. Also, I just got the car back from having the exhaust welded together, could this have something to do with it?

[redNeckarsulm2]

OOOOOH - Did you remember to disconnect the computer before the welding?!?

[2young944]

No... I didnt disconnect. WHY??! I had a muffler shop do it. What does it do?

[redNeckarsulm2]

you should probably borrow a DME, switch it w/yours and see if it clears up your problem. It is easy to damage the DME by welding with it plugged in.

[2young944]

After that first time it has completely stopped. It goes fine now, and I even had more stuff welded today... and it's worked fine! so, its okay i suppose. Thanks!

[2young944]

After that first time it has completely stopped. It goes fine now, and I even had more stuff welded today... and it's worked fine! so, its okay i suppose. Thanks!