So I've been driving the car around trying to understand how I can recreate the problem reliably in order to troubleshoot it. It's been a while since I've driven it daily for an extended period and it just didn't seem right. Off the line it didn't have that torque that I remember. I dismissed it as bad memory on my part.
Well low and behold Sunday, after driving it all morning on a warm day I started up a fairly steep hill and decided to get on it a bit. Wham it fell completely flat, started to buck and jump, could only get to about 3k rpm and no further. Got it home and couldn't start it again, did some simple checks ie: spark, filters, relay. but turned up nothing. Next day it started fine but by the time I got to the freeway it barely could get on. It felt like a trans slipping or fuel restriction or maybe something related.... well I go home open my mail and read the nice service alert for the catalytic. Well no wonder this thing felt like someone shoved potatoes up it's exhaust. Needless to say I have scheduled a dealer visit.
If this does take care of it I won't tell my wife right away since this is a much better driver then my truck.
09-28-2005, 12:15 AM
