98 lumina 3.8
At times, the engine will miss and then hit causing a jumping or stuttering of the engine. Sometimes it will completely stop. Usually just a couple little jolts then things are fine again.
This occurs usually when accelerating from a stop, or when you have stopped accelerating and are putting on the break. Once in a while it will shut off while going down the freeway. That is bad and dangerous!
This happens to my son and wife often, but is hasn't ever happened to me, only a stutter when taking off once, so this info is the best I have.
I am wondering if this could be an electrical problem with the throttle position sensor. As I looked at the throttle, their is a cable from the gas pedal to the carburetor. I was thinking that it would just be some sort of sensor at the gas pedal that connected to the control module.
If someone has any ideas of what is going on, or if some one can explain in detail how the gas pedal system works, were the parts are located, and what to test , I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks Rex
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I got a p0102 code today. MAF low signal in my simple book