88 Nova help

[KreatoR]

I recently had the Oil changed in my 88 Nova... its an old beater that I got from a friend (250k miles on this bad boy). But after I had the oil changed, the engine would putter out and die in the middle of the road if I wasn't giving it gas. And it wasnt doing this prior to the oil change. So now I'm trying to figure out whats going on, I had some people tell me to check the vaccuum hoses, and that it may be something with the fuel filter. What would you tell me?

Thanks in advance!

[johnholl]

If it is carborated, I assume it is, check to see if the service person didn't knock off the vacuume lines located under the air cleaner which control the thermac unit. check your pcv valve [it should rattle]. bump up the base idle speed screw. Clean the carb linkages with a good carb cleaner. Make sure they didn't overfill the crankcase with oil. [3.5qts]check the air filter. If its got 250K miles on it there is a good chance the fuel filter is pluged..[rusty old gas tank]. Change the filter. The only way i could keep the filter from re-clogging was to keep adding dry gas to the tank at fill-up. Replace the distributor cap and rotor

[smokey041369]

88 nova has a toyota motor like the geo's when they get high mileage on them they start to have problems like the one you are having. do evrything johnholl said and it probaly wouldn't hurt to have a tune up done and have the trans fluid and filter changed

[Jager]

also at startup depress the gas pedal to the floor twice BEFORE starting the engine. i have an 86 nova and moved from a toyota corolla 87 and that sets something in the engine that allows it to run better (its listed in the manual for both cars under what to do if hard to start or engine response is slow)

[Fyter87]

Its Possibly the Carb, your choke is possibly getting stuck, take some Carb cleaner and get a friend to go with you. You need some one to keep the RPM's up when you spray the cleaner in becuase it bogs the engine down and stall it if you dont keep the rpm's high. Worked for me.

[aaron7]

It's fuel injected right? I've never seen a car that new with a carb...