Re: Dak is acting up again. :-(

From: Bob Tom (tigers@bserv.com)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 16:02:43 EDT


At 06:23 PM 10/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
> <snip>
> Today, as I was pulling out of a parking lot, the engine
>stumbled something fierce. I got off the throttle and it seemed
>OK, then I got into the gas again and it happened again.
>I played around with it a couple of times, and discovered that
>it would start to stumble and backfire around 3500 rpm. One time
>when I tried it, it stumbled pretty bad and the engine shut off.
>I pulled into a parking lot, and tried to start the engine while
>I was rolling to a stop, but it wouldn't start. I checked for
>codes and puled a 43. I had the laptop with me, so I hooked
>it up and it turned out to be a P0351, Ignition Coil #1 Primary
>Circuit (Peak primary circuit current not achieved with maximum
>dwell time.) I tried the engine again, and it started. I cleared
>the codes and headed for home. When I got home, I put it in 1st
>and went up past 3,000; I thought it was OK, but when I got to
>just after 4,000 it stumbled again, the engine shut off, and
>it backfired. It didn't start up again, either. I pulled
>the same code again. (I've gotten that code before, but the
>dealer I took it to thought it may have been from when I was
>cranking the engine.) I just went outside (maybe a half an
>hour after) to see if it would start. About 4-5 times, it fired
>up, then as the idle settled down, it just quit. Finally, it
>stayed running. (I shut it off after about 20 seconds or so.)
> <snip>

I seem to recall reading that a faulty TPS could cause symptoms
like this but I am not absolutely sure. Maybe checking the state
of the connectors and wires to the TPS and the TPS might turn up
something.

Bob, Burlington, Ontario
'97 FR CC Sport, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto., 15.234 @ 87.26



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