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Originally posted by Patrick Patrick wrote:

rev the crap out of the engine (literally) and look for a fine white power to come shooting out of the tail pipes.


If it DOES start to do this, make sure you wrap baggies around the tail pipes right away, and then carefully store the contents. 
It would seem that THAT is where I left my stash of coke. 

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Originally posted by Dawg Dawg wrote:

TPS seemed fine


That's what I thought too on my black car.

Remember me being in the parking lot at Arlington with a scan tool...  trying to figure out why it was bucking and kicking one moment, then fine, then whacked?

My TPS (which usually scanned fine) was f'd.  Replaced it - problem gone.  No guarantees that's YOUR issue, but....
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Originally posted by Dawg Dawg wrote:

So it looks like there's a heat related component to this.

Try doing This. Worked for me.

 
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Originally posted by Dr.Fiero Dr.Fiero wrote:

Originally posted by Dawg Dawg wrote:

TPS seemed fine


That's what I thought too on my black car.

Remember me being in the parking lot at Arlington with a scan tool...  trying to figure out why it was bucking and kicking one moment, then fine, then whacked?

My TPS (which usually scanned fine) was f'd.  Replaced it - problem gone.  No guarantees that's YOUR issue, but....


I remember that! We were in the Safeway parking lot...
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I never updated this thread so here goes.

The problem ended up just being timing.  We did the timing in the bright sunshine and it was hard to see.  The balancer had not been cleaned either.

It ended up needing some advancement.

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