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Old 11-17-2008, 06:24 PM
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1987 190e 2.3 touch the gas pedal and she stalls

Hi,

My daughter's 1987 190e (on it's last wheel) has 262K miles on it. It started stalling while she was driving it, only to restart after one or two attempts. Got progressively worse.

I brought the car into my shop to check it out. Compression # 1 = 120 psi #'2 2&3 = 180 PSI and #4 = 150 PSI. Hadn't changed much in the 18 months that she's been driving it. I now, it's terrible, but this car drove like a bat out of hell when I was driving it,,, suprisingly alot of fun,,, peppy,, well anyway,,,

Vacuum = 14 inches at idle. Can't find any vacuum leaks. 18 months ago I checked the valve timing and it was fine.

I drove the car into the shop, and started fiddling with it, now It barely wants to run, I don't think I cross the combobulator with the spherical axis, but just wanted to start a thread to maybe get some suggestions, and to let you all know what I discovered,,,
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