barely running

[91_SHOster]

here's the story...my car today began to not idle and would barely stay idled at 500rpms, and it was ridiculously running rich, reved it a few times, still no change, tried driving around...at first it didn't help but then it fixed itself and returned to normal idle, but felt real sluggish. It almost seemed as if it had dropped a cylinder for a moment. I think it might be my spark plug wires, they need to be replaced. but if that for some reason doesn't fixed the problem, is there anything else I should be looking out for?

 

[jkichline]

here's the story...my car today began to not idle and would barely stay idled at 500rpms, and it was ridiculously running rich, reved it a few times, still no change, tried driving around...at first it didn't help but then it fixed itself and returned to normal idle, but felt real sluggish. It almost seemed as if it had dropped a cylinder for a moment. I think it might be my spark plug wires, they need to be replaced. but if that for some reason doesn't fixed the problem, is there anything else I should be looking out for?

make sure you don't have any codes. If you have a bad wire and this happens you should be able to see it arcing somewhere. If you have oil on your wires when you pull them out, you're due for your upper 60K.

 

[AREA 91]

I've had a bad MAF do that to me.

 

[Bringetto]

sounds like a bad DIS moudule

 

[somedude_001]

are you running a K&N air filter (or other air filter that uses oil)? sometimes the oil from the filter will coat teh hot wire in the MAF and it has to be cleaned off.

pull some plug wires and see if teh plug wells are full of oil.

 

[TicoSHO]

sounds like a bad DIS moudule

Ditto