1990 200 idles fine, but has no power and stutters over 3000rpm

[Joshua Van Tol]

Some more ideas:

Clogged fuel filter, failing fuel pump, bad metering head, sticky metering
plate, etc.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:20 PM, David Yentema <yentemad at rider.edu> wrote:

> as the subject states, does anyone have whats going on?
>
> I just bought this car, and after working on it for a bit I got it to start
> up and idle, but it does idle a bit rough, and has a clacking coming from
> the rear of the valve cover(i'm assuming it's lifter tick, just sounds
> different than what my 5000 always sounded like) but when I went to put it
> in gear and drive it, it falls flat on it's ass, struggles to take off, and
> as it approaches 3000 it starts sputtering and bogging down. I hit a top
> speed of about 45mph on level ground, but going uphill it struggles to
> climb....
>
> I've heard anything from bad air filter, to no compression. I'm thinking
> it's a vac/boost leak somewhere, because my 5000 behaved similarly when I
> forgot to hook the ecu vac line back up.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks!
> Dave
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