87 5kTQ stalling

[Larry C Leung]

John,

Did you check your intercooler for leaks? Any oil on the underside of the
intercooler, especially near the end caps, and it's probably leaking. My
frame crossmember under the IC was also coated.

LL - NY

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:58:46 EST JJK1204 at aol.com writes:
> Our 87 5kTQ has been stalling and exhibiting other strange behavior. 
> It 
> started about a month ago when it did not want to idle in the 
> morning until 
> it was warmed up, which later progressed to it didn't want to idle 
> when warm 
> and the
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> I drove to get her and the car stalled at a stop light. It would 
> fire and 
> then die when I started to pull away. It did this for a couple of 
> minutes and 
> then fired up. I drove home switched cars and went and got my wife. 

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> ramp to the tollway. It would catch but would not keep running a 
> couple of 
> times and then no catch at all, no codes then or previous or now. I 
> had to 
> tow it home. I was busy all week so today I took it out and almost 
> everything 
> was fine except for when I punched it the boost would climb to 
> 1.2-1.3 bar 
> and then around 4500 rpm would start to decrease to 0.9-0.8 bar. 
> This makes 
> me suspect the Michelin Man hose or some other intake air leak, but 
> I 
> replaced the Michelin Man hose around a year ago. I also replaced 
> the right 
> front mount, exhaust manifold and intake manifold and the Michelin 
> Man hose 
> looked fine. Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> John Katos
> West Dundee, IL
>