The minute either one of these symtoms occurs,,,replace the fuel filter by the fuel pump.
the crap in my filter was chocking the fuel flow.

 

i changed my fuel filter when i got the car 3 months ago...

could it have gotten that fouled in the meantime since these are symptioms i have..

 

I would say vaccum leak, with the rough idle, but do a rundown the fuel delivery system.

 

I would say vaccum leak, with the rough idle, but do a rundown the fuel delivery system.

 

If you have a lot of crap in your tank (rust, etc.), it's absolutely possible that your filter could be clogged again...

Dan

 

if you have stock exsauhst your cat could be clogged (happend to me)

 

i thought that my cat migt be clogged before but looking underneath the cat lookseally small

asnyone have a pic of it ?

 

You actually have 3 cats (unless you're an early first gen in which case you have less, but you have a thermal reactor or some such device) and yeah, they are pretty small.

 

funny this comes up

because over the weekend i am smelling exaust in the cabin, one time i engine braked a littl e hard and it smoked out the tailpipe an d came up in the rear of the car.

its old so i am guessing i have just found a hole in the body over the muffler I can live withthat til it warms up and hten i can fix it

but even while moving i am smelling exhaust now

so either its gettign some weird bvortext pushing the exhaust in that hole in the back or its coming in from the engine compartment

im a student right now so i was debating on how best troubleshoot this one

 

yeah, old cars,, crap in the tanks, crap in the gas station tanks too.. i was at, hi-rpm's just falling on my face and my idle was ***. new fuel filter by the pump, good to go. i use 2 filters on each car,..