Start. Putter. Stall. Kick!!!

OK jump into my car. Start that sucker up. and listen to it in all its glory.. then.. whats this?? putter putter putter. sounds like the car is gonna... then wammo stalls out.. this happens like every 4-10 seconds.. but doest stall every time.. i just replaced the battery (guess i left a light on but it was old anyway) and started it up to that.. i herd it can be 1 of a million things.. any hints of what they could be would help me.. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: Thanks :banghead:

man, i'm just getting my hands greasy and i can list about two dozen things it could be. when did this start happening?

2 days ago now.. i didnt drive it for like a week or so b4.. then when i got in the battery was dead.. so after the jumpstart didnt work i just bought a new one.. and thats where i am now.. with a god damn putter =-/

what happenes when you give it gas?

feels like it lost power.. kinda feels like i didnt give it any.. i let it run again today.. didnt stall.. but puttered in and out.. you can see it on the tach too.. was fading down to like 750 and then like 550 but then went back up to 1000 again... :sly: but i dunno what the hell is going on with it.. im going to have a guy i know check it out.. hopefully it will be cheap to fix.. whatever it is anyway :crying:

Mine displayed simular problems. I have 90 lx 2.3l and it kick stalled sputtered. I bought the ford diag tool from autozone, 39.00 , and it said map sensor. map sensor was 45.00 .. I put it in and she never stalled, or sputtered since..

good stuff.. ill have to pick that diag tool up right away
Thanks man

His car has a MAF setup, which doesn't have a MAP sensor (as far as I know, but it has been a LONG time since i've worked on a non-carb'ed or a non-F.A.S.T. car). Try cleaning off the MAF sensor and the IAC.

i don't know much about cars, and this same thing happened on my 1995 Jetta. When in idle, the car would putter and you could feel it shake a bit, how a car does right when you are on the border of stalling. It never stalled, but it felt like it was just about to. The problem ended up being that we needed new spark plug wires (don't know the technical name for them). The ones we had were old (the car had probably like 70,000 miles or more on it) and after we replaced them, problems solved.