car acting up/ tried everything (please read)
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car acting up/ tried everything (please read)
My car has been running shitty forever. I installed an a/f gauge and it was reading crazy half the time no LED's other times it goes to stoich and when I give it gas it goes to lean and then no LED's. I thought the O2 sensor was the cause and replaced it along with my new downpipe.(3.15") but it still reads the same. I know the car is running rich because it bogs off the line and you can smell it. Since its not the O2 sensor what do you guys think.
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Get injectors cleaned, get compression check, not sure about this one but have heard that the Water Thermo sensor can cause running rich problems, get TPS adjusted, get a general tuneup done and see what heppens. Thats all I can think of doing.
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Next we will do a compression check done and change the plugs. I already adjusted his TPS, so thats not it. Thanks for the suggestions so far, any one else have any ideas?
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I haven't been around rotaries long but here's a story of what happened with my car. my car was running very lean at one point when i took it to a dyno. it seemed to shudder all the time when i drove it, and the 3800 rpm studder was unbearable. when i had it on the dyno one of the guys working there used to have an fc and said that he may have a way to fix it. he popped the cap off my maf sensor and there's a little thing in there that you can turn with little teeth on the outside of it where you can adjust the a/f(at least that's what he did). I don't know exactly how the guy turned it or what he really did but it helped A LOT with the way the car runs. and it got rid of the studder.
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