Strange low power after startup

Grant Lenahan glenahan at fastmail.fm
Sat Apr 15 07:34:31 EDT 2006


Sounds like mixture.  My first guess would be 02 sensor - then it warms 
up.

Grant
On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:13 PM, George Selby wrote:

> I've been having an intermittent power loss with my 90 200t.  Sometimes
> when I start it up (usually when warm) it will start, but when you 
> press
> the gas the car hardly moves.  If you press the pedal down more, the 
> engine
> will start to stumble, and it is idling about 200 rpm lower than
> normal.  If you feather the throttle, I can get the car to move, and
> generally after 10 seconds to a minute all of a sudden the power will 
> come
> back to normal and everything will be fine unless you turn off the car,
> then the symptoms may or may not return.
>
> The boost gauge will read into boost when the car is exhibiting the 
> power
> loss, so I'm pretty sure it's not the turbo; it seems to me the car 
> isn't
> getting the proper amount of fuel.  Could my fuel pump be dying?  It
> doesn't make any abnormal noises, though.
>
> George Selby
>
>
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