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- From: pnelson@cobra.Tymnet.COM (Phil Nelson)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Odd acceleration problem w/89 Chrysler LeBaron
- Summary: another one, same problem
- Message-ID: <2368@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:39:03 GMT
- References: <BtG5En.KF5@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1992Aug24.161903.19100@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>
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- In article <1992Aug24.161903.19100@swlvx2.msd.ray.com> hsd@swlrat.msd.ray.com (HERBERT DASILVA) writes:
- |scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
- |
- ||I'm having an odd problem with my 1989 Chrysler LeBaron. I'm hoping for
- ||pointers either to a solution, or to a competent (probably computer-literate)
- ||mechanic in the South San Francisco Bay Area.
- |
- ||The car is the GTS (hatchback) model with the 4-cylinder turbo, automatic
- ||transmission. The problem is that when accelerating hard, such as to merge
- ||onto a freeway, the car gets up to about 3500 RPM and then quits - it just
- ||stops accelerating. The RPMs drop to about 3000 or so, and the engine kicks
- ||back in like nothing happened. The effect on smoothness is unpleasant, to
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- | Yup, you're running into an overboost condition, and the engine shuts you
- | down to keep you from blowing up the motor. This can be caused by
- | several factors, like:
- |
- | 1. A vacuum leak to the wastegate, or improperly adjusted wastegate
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- The guy who works in the cube next to me had this happen to his '89 GTC,
- he says it was a collapsed vacuum line.
-
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