Cherokee Sport Hesitating

[ALeadingLady]

Driving along and suddenly it acts as if it will just turn off. I take my foot off the accelerator and then press it ever so gently, it will spurter and go. My mechanic says I may have gotten rust in my gas tank. Both some engine cleaner, put it in here and it appears fine for a while. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[thinmints]

Originally Posted by ALeadingLady

Driving along and suddenly it acts as if it will just turn off. I take my foot off the accelerator and then press it ever so gently, it will spurter and go. My mechanic says I may have gotten rust in my gas tank. Both some engine cleaner, put it in here and it appears fine for a while. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Well my 96 just started to do the same thing but my problem is it happens when i make a turn so i am hoping its just the fuel

[89ltd]

what year is the jeep, it could be the egr valve opening to soon, try unplugging the vacum to the egr and plugging the line, if it runs better , that could be the problem. A bad egr valve will make it hesitate at lower rpms.

[geoffsimpson0212]

How much fuel is in the tank when it does this. My 99 stalled out on me on a left turn when running about an eigth of a tank

Originally Posted by thinmints

Well my 96 just started to do the same thing but my problem is it happens when i make a turn so i am hoping its just the fuel

[Dale Aeppli]

Originally Posted by ALeadingLady

Driving along and suddenly it acts as if it will just turn off. I take my foot off the accelerator and then press it ever so gently, it will spurter and go. My mechanic says I may have gotten rust in my gas tank. Both some engine cleaner, put it in here and it appears fine for a while. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

HI, HAVE YOU HAD THE FUEL FILTER CHANGED LATELY. HOW ABOUT FUEL PRESSURE CHECK, HAVE YOU HAD ONE DONE RECENTLY. COULD POSSIBLLY THE THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR. HAS IT BEEN TUNED-UP RECENTLY ALONG WITH AIR FILTER CHANGE. HOPE THIS HELPS. YEAR, MODEL, ENGINE WOULD BE HELPFUL DALE
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[thinmints]

Originally Posted by geoffsimpson0212

How much fuel is in the tank when it does this. My 99 stalled out on me on a left turn when running about an eigth of a tank

Yea thats about how much i had in it

[geoffsimpson0212]

Originally Posted by thinmints

Yea thats about how much i had in it

Well fella's looks like it's a nasty piece of hardware called a cps or camshaft positioning sensor...or something. You can locate it under your manifold on the driver side. I'm pricing one out this week. From what I've learned it's easy to change if you can get to it....access from below...gotta get ramps I think