[V8] Stumbling / surging problem

cobram at juno.com cobram at juno.com
Tue Jul 25 23:20:26 EDT 2006


 dsaad at icehouse.net writes:
> How about doing a "power flush", where a cleaning fluid like the GM 
> Top Engine Cleaner is run through the fuel injectors for a while using
a 
> special machine?

You don't need a special machine, and you don't feed it in through the
injectors.

> This may clean up the results of the car sitting around for so 
> long.  It also cleans out all the carbon buildup and in general,
magically 
> makes your car like new again.

Carbon doesn't build up from sitting too long, unless of course some
carbon based life form has been storing food in the head.
 
> The symptom sounds like a classic buildup of deposits on the intake 
> valves.

The symptoms don't sound like valve deposit buildup to me at all.  Hard
starting and rough idle after startup are the symptoms of carbon buildup,
neither of which this car seems to suffer from.   
 

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