[silver87ta]

Lately, my bird's been acting up during certain driving conditions:

1. When downshifting, or even when taking off slowly from a stop, she'll stutter and hesitate, like she's starved for fuel.

2. Every now and then, on a cold start, she'll turn and turn but not start. Ill try to crank it 5 or 6 time to no avail, but eventually it will fire up like nothing ever was wrong.

3. Lately, I've been getting lotsa white smoke from the exhaust, but only on start up, and especially thick after problem #2.

Now, last night I check the charcoal canister that's supposed to suck fumes out of the intake manifolds and whatnot after the engine has stopped, and found that quite a few of the vacuum lines I had replaced werent even trying to hold a vacuum (my bad for that, used too big replacement hose, i suppose). Anyhow, I fixed all of those, and now the white smoke problem has stopped. But the stuttering and starting problem is still in effect.

So, after all that, my question is this: Could the canister not doing its job somehow have junked up or fouled my fuel injectors? Or is this a classic case of the fuel pump going bye-bye? Or is it something I havent even considered? I'll be changing the plugs and fuel filter this weekend, and shocking the system with a double dose of fuel injector cleaner tommorrow (anyone who wants to chime in with a prefered brand of F.I. cleaners, please speak up).