Car still won't rev over 2k

[Brett Dikeman]

At 3:17 PM -0600 4/25/02, Zsolt Kovacs wrote:
>We still can't figure out why my car won't run over 2k. It's a 90 V8q,
>with 185k km.
>
>The code says speed sensor, however the one sensor is new already. Also,
>according to the manual (thanks George) it shouldn't even run if it were
>the speed sensor. The car starts fine, and runs well until it hits 2k.
>That is where it just chokes and losses all power.
>
>Please help. Why are we getting the speed sensor code? Could it be
>something else?

Which speed sensor?  There are several, at least on the 200q20v, for
example.  There's a hall sensor on the distributor, and two sensors
by the flywheel, etc.

   It's normal to get an RPM sensor fault when the engine is not
running...should be a note about it in the Bentley.  It should
disappear with the engine started.

We had problems with Theron's V8 at the fall foliage tour(it died
within a few miles, and right in front of an auto parts store :-)...I
don't remember the exact symptoms, but it sounds familiar.  We turned
the car upside down before figuring it out.  Turned out to be a
completely disintegrated breather hose that literally fell off up
front; we did a biopsy(cut off part of the hose), and handed it to
the rather amused clerk at the store("What's this from?"  "Uh, that
Audi over there with all the people standing around it.  Got anything
about the same size and yae long?")

Certainly can't hurt to the breather hose(hoses?) given how
relatively easy it is.  None of them should be stretchy/squishy, and
certainly no big holes :-)

I didn't see anything about this problem before...did you have any
symptoms before it started acting up this seriously?

Brett
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