Bud Badiali
LVC Member
6 months ago, bought 88 LSC with 70K milesin nice shape for $2000.00. Car was running great , but suddenly one morning began stalling after cold startup, would rev up after starting as normal and then drop to stall.
Mechanic found and fixed something in the distributor which he said sends a pulse to the fuel injectors which got it to idle OK, but it still lacked its normal power. Few days later got progressively worse, would barely accelerate and was blowing alot of blue and black smoke.
Subsequent "diagnosis" spit out about 20 codes and " mechanic" could not reconcile, and after several attempts gave up saying it a "computer issue".
I Dont want to spend 3 grand for a dealer to guess this out and replace everything on a 2 grand car, but want it fixed. Anybody out there relate similar experience and/or probable cause and fix? We can do mechanical stuff, but have no experience in deep EFI analysis.
Mechanic found and fixed something in the distributor which he said sends a pulse to the fuel injectors which got it to idle OK, but it still lacked its normal power. Few days later got progressively worse, would barely accelerate and was blowing alot of blue and black smoke.
Subsequent "diagnosis" spit out about 20 codes and " mechanic" could not reconcile, and after several attempts gave up saying it a "computer issue".
I Dont want to spend 3 grand for a dealer to guess this out and replace everything on a 2 grand car, but want it fixed. Anybody out there relate similar experience and/or probable cause and fix? We can do mechanical stuff, but have no experience in deep EFI analysis.
