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I have an 1989 Fleetwood (4.9 FWD) and after taking it to three shops, we cannot diagnose the problem with my car. I purchased this car from the original owner, who states the car ran just fine before it was parked for two years. Since purchasing the car we have replaced the radiator, some weathered belts, starter, plugs and wires, fuel filter, and dropped the gas tank and cleaned it out.
After running like a champ for the first 5 miles that we drive it, it suddenly starts bogging down, sputtering, and eventually backfiring louder than anything you've ever heard and cutting off. It backfired hard enough to blow the weld off of our muffler and left a hole in the side of it, and at the same time it also caused the trim on the rear quarter panel to be blown off. PLEASE help---do you think it could possibly be a stopped up catalytic converter?!? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Answer -
Could be a restriction in the exhaust and or a timing issue.
Are you getting a CHECK ENGINE light ?.
tom
Thanks for responding so quickly to my post. Yes, I am getting a check engine light, as well as a service engine soon light. If the catalytic converter was bolt-on, we were just going to take it off and check it out. Of course, it wouldn't happen to be that easy, so now we're trying to decide if it's even a possibility before going through all the trouble. Here are the codes that we are receiving:
E22
E23
E28
E52
E53
Does this help at all?
AnswerYou have a distributor and a throttle position sensor problem.
You will need to contact me at:
onlineautohelp@msn.com
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