Re: [AMC-list] Non AMC Question...

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

Bill,

You may want to subscribe to alldatadiy.com for a year for this car. It 
will give you access to the factory shop manual. Going through the 
factory diagnostic charts will save you a bunch of time and probably a 
ton of money.

Also, AutoZone's scanner will not read all of the computers on the car 
(there are at least 2, maybe even 3 or 4) so it may have to end up going 
to a dealer. The reason I mentioned that is that there could be a fault 
in one of the other computers tripping the light and causing the 
computer to run the car in limp mode. One of the guys I work with had a 
suspension related sensor fail in a Corvette he used to have and the car 
would not go any faster than 25 MPH.

Matt

On 8/24/2010 10:55 AM, Bill Serckie spouted this sage advice:
> Okay Guy's and Girls I've got a problem that 's got me stumped...
>
> I have a 2000 Chebby Cathiter with a 2.2 and am getting absolutly no 
> acceleration beyoud 20mph then it bogs out...let up on the accelerator and it 
> slowly picks up again but not past 20 mph. The car has new plugs, new plug 
> wires, new coil packs, air filter and oil change...When I bought the car, it has 
> a rusted out flex pipe so I had a new one installed along with a new muffler and 
> tail pipe and the car started to run crappy about a week after the flex pipe was 
> corrected.  My initial thought was that there was a back pressure build up and 
> the catalytic converter was not functioning properly so i drilled out a section 
> of pipe just in front of the converter to vent the back pressure but that did 
> not help.  I had one of the local Auto Zone employees plug in a scanner (check 
> engine light is on) and it showed three things
> 1) car needs tune-up (car is completely tuned up to factory specs) or 2) car has 
> vacuum leak (can't find one)  .  
>
>
> I'm at a complete loss here...Any ideas ???
>  
> Bill Serckie
> Coldwell Banker Real Estate & Mortgage Services
> 2 River Place Suite "K"
> Lansing, IL 60438
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