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Hi guys and gals!
My focus is idling slightly rough in Park and Neutral. It kinda sounds like a carburetted car from the back with it's new "blub, blub, blub" sound. In F or R it bucks, stumbles and misfires under load. It never had this problem before having sat for 1 1/2 yrs.
I was fixing my girlfriend's old car, an 03 SE Wagon. I had to perform a complete brake job in my spare time. So the car sat for a year and a half while I plugged away.
I changed the fuel filter since I was underneath. I also changed the engine oil and filter. Brand new battery also.
Everything looks to be installed properly, eg I don't see any loose/bad vacuum lines. Also I did not replace the spark plugs although for the 1st 5 min of running that didn't seem to matter.
When I completed the repairs a few days ago, I started the engine and was thrilled it started right up. Now I wasn't able to bleed all the air out (probably bc of ABS) so I took it for a 5 min ride around the block. It ran just fine...for a couple minutes.
I limped it back home and the next day put in injector cleaner and 5 gal fresh gas. Would old gas (probably with water in it) cause my engine to sputter and buck, even if I mixed 5 gals of fresh gas in?
My focus is idling slightly rough in Park and Neutral. It kinda sounds like a carburetted car from the back with it's new "blub, blub, blub" sound. In F or R it bucks, stumbles and misfires under load. It never had this problem before having sat for 1 1/2 yrs.
I was fixing my girlfriend's old car, an 03 SE Wagon. I had to perform a complete brake job in my spare time. So the car sat for a year and a half while I plugged away.
I changed the fuel filter since I was underneath. I also changed the engine oil and filter. Brand new battery also.
Everything looks to be installed properly, eg I don't see any loose/bad vacuum lines. Also I did not replace the spark plugs although for the 1st 5 min of running that didn't seem to matter.
When I completed the repairs a few days ago, I started the engine and was thrilled it started right up. Now I wasn't able to bleed all the air out (probably bc of ABS) so I took it for a 5 min ride around the block. It ran just fine...for a couple minutes.
I limped it back home and the next day put in injector cleaner and 5 gal fresh gas. Would old gas (probably with water in it) cause my engine to sputter and buck, even if I mixed 5 gals of fresh gas in?