Car dies when I stop
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Car dies when I stop
I need all the help I can get. I appreciate any help that I can get, but I am gonna need very detailed explanations of how to perform any tests that may be recommended, because I am not too engine savy (although I am learning as I go). My car keeps dying on me when I stop. Some days I can drive it and it doesn't die once. Once it dies on me once though, I'm praying at every stop sign, red light, or traffic jam I encounter. It seems that it especially likes to die out on hills (going up or down them). When I finally make it back to my house after this happens, I like to sit in the drive way and put it through all the gears (yes it's an automatic - for the time being). The idle is all over the place and it usually dies on me again when I go from drive to park. The idle is always kinda f@#$ed up, not just after it starts dying. The weird thing is, the only way I can get it to start back up when I'm in traffic is to pump the gas (it is fuel-injected but pressing the pedal to the floor never starts it). Please help.
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Sounds like the torque converter isn't releasing as it should. The torque converter locks up to save some gas once a certain speed is reached, and on older units, the torque converter doesn't always unlock when it should.
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also look at the egr, if it an on and off problem the egr could be sticking. it would drive great at cruise but with a load (going up a hill) it would bog out and also would not beable to idle. I doubt its the torque converter clutch because he would be locked in gear if it was sticking causing a LOT more than a bad idle. but with any weird idle you should always check the tps...
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timing would be a consistant problem, if it runs fine one day and not the next i think its probly something mechanical.... like the egr. timing doesnt just change. but the tps is stupid and does what it wants, i ziptied and glued mine in place cuz it seemed to move around on the mount.
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Originally Posted by Sideways7
Drive it like a stick. Put in nuetral and rev the engine at stop lights. Seriously though, I vote for TPS and possibly a vac leak. Mine was similar (I had to rev it at stop lights to keep it from dying) and I have a large vac leak in the rats nest.
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Does the car die after going down the highway, coming off an off ramp and stopping? Or also general around town driving, never getting up to a consistent speed?
If it does it after cruising a highway for a while, it could be your torque converting staying locked up, just like neovoxx said.
If it does it after cruising a highway for a while, it could be your torque converting staying locked up, just like neovoxx said.
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i have a 91 automatic and it dies out of nowhere as well except mine does it from park to either of the gears. i have to throttle just to put it in a different gear. when it engages, theres a load ping noise and it jolts into gear. its pretty fucked. i plan on doing the 5speed swap after summer. but yeah its fine after i put it in gear except slowing down sometimes. it shutters like its confused what gear to go in. i onno. just my input on automatic problems. oh and if i let it idle for like 10 minutes so on, it may sometimes cut off or bog out.
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