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vetteboy86
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I'm working on an 82 with 68k actual miles. Car ran beautiflly up until about 2 weeks ago.
The issue: The car will start cold or hot and idle fine. A little on the high side at first but the RPM's do come down. It will run and idle fine for about a minute, then start running rough, rich I suspect judging from the black smoke and rich exhaust smell. It will keep doing this and will die. I cannot keep it running with the gas pedal.
Restart the car, coughs momentarily, then idles fine for about 60 seconds than dies in the same fashion. I can repeat this all night if I wanted to. I've got a book of receipts and came across one for replacement injectors to correct a stalling issue. I would think if it was an injector issue the car would run rich all the time. So the plan is to see what is changing and causing the car to run poorly. EGR perhaps?
I'm like a fish out of water working on this thing. Any help is appreciated. Until then, I'll be searching like crazy.
Thanks
The issue: The car will start cold or hot and idle fine. A little on the high side at first but the RPM's do come down. It will run and idle fine for about a minute, then start running rough, rich I suspect judging from the black smoke and rich exhaust smell. It will keep doing this and will die. I cannot keep it running with the gas pedal.
Restart the car, coughs momentarily, then idles fine for about 60 seconds than dies in the same fashion. I can repeat this all night if I wanted to. I've got a book of receipts and came across one for replacement injectors to correct a stalling issue. I would think if it was an injector issue the car would run rich all the time. So the plan is to see what is changing and causing the car to run poorly. EGR perhaps?
I'm like a fish out of water working on this thing. Any help is appreciated. Until then, I'll be searching like crazy.
Thanks