I'm making a new thread off an older one I made about a week ago that died and I also want to explain it better. I am really stumped. About a week back my car went really low on gas because it was late and no gas stations were open until I came to an Exxon. It was really close to "E". I got gas and everything was fine and I drove the car to my internship the next morning.
I shut the car off went to work for about 8 hours and went to start it and I could instantly tell something was wrong. The car was idling extremely rough and I tried to drive it home since my job is not that far from my house. I reconsidered when it felt like it was going to die and felt vastly underpowered. However, it did seem like it ran better as the rpms rose if that says anything. I got it towed to my house and as it sits right now it won't start.
So far I've tried several cheap things to fix it. I had a warrantee on my distributor so I replaced that for free. I then thought it was the EGR valve but when I took it out it was not stuck, looked clean and would move when I sucked on the valve(I know that sounds dirty). Next I got all new spark plugs because when I removed mine they were very dark somewhat fouled. They were not completely dark and fould looking if you know what I mean they did however look like they were running very rich. Those were the colder nitrous plugs from last year but the car was running fine and I didn't spray the nitrous this year so don't say it was the nitrous that hurt the motor. The car ran fine all winter and summer up until this point. I moved the distributor around and saw if the timing was way off or something. Right now I have absolutely no clue and don't feel like paying some mechanic $100 an hour who is going to screw me. Does anyone have any clue what it could be? I'm thinking about replacing the coil? Sorry this is so ridiculously long but I am real need of help. Thanks.
I shut the car off went to work for about 8 hours and went to start it and I could instantly tell something was wrong. The car was idling extremely rough and I tried to drive it home since my job is not that far from my house. I reconsidered when it felt like it was going to die and felt vastly underpowered. However, it did seem like it ran better as the rpms rose if that says anything. I got it towed to my house and as it sits right now it won't start.
So far I've tried several cheap things to fix it. I had a warrantee on my distributor so I replaced that for free. I then thought it was the EGR valve but when I took it out it was not stuck, looked clean and would move when I sucked on the valve(I know that sounds dirty). Next I got all new spark plugs because when I removed mine they were very dark somewhat fouled. They were not completely dark and fould looking if you know what I mean they did however look like they were running very rich. Those were the colder nitrous plugs from last year but the car was running fine and I didn't spray the nitrous this year so don't say it was the nitrous that hurt the motor. The car ran fine all winter and summer up until this point. I moved the distributor around and saw if the timing was way off or something. Right now I have absolutely no clue and don't feel like paying some mechanic $100 an hour who is going to screw me. Does anyone have any clue what it could be? I'm thinking about replacing the coil? Sorry this is so ridiculously long but I am real need of help. Thanks.