[V8] No Officer, I don't want to race

[Andy Schor]

From: "Michael Larosa Jr"...

vacuum ?  possible the 3 breather hoses ?  oil dipstick nice and tight ?

v8's are sensitive to un metered air...


From: "Buchholz, Steven"...

... read out the codes as soon as the failure recurs ... might as well
let the engine tell you what it is complaining about!



From: "Ed Kellock"...

 Try unplugging the throttle position sensor and see if the throttle
on/off abruptness seems familiar.  You my have a bad tps or some water
go in it.



I just drove over to the mechanic shop to have the codes pulled and 
naturally the car ran fine.  He ran the codes and found none.  Does this car 
only retain codes until the key is shut off (like 5000 TQ)?  I did remove 
and replace the dipstick, the breather hoses seemed OK.  So I left and went 
to the store for a few items (car ran fine).  I started up to go back to the 
office and there's the CEL and poor running condition.  This condition has 
only occurred (so far) on warm start-up, if that's any indication.  At this 
point we've got thunder showers blowing through, so I'm just going to park 
it in the warehouse and take the other V8 (Volvo) home tonight.

Thanks for the suggestions,
Andy 



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