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RANDY P · #5 11-17-2010, 11:34 PM

Great...

Problem came back, been about 100 miles +1 really fresh tank of gas and now with occasional surging.

The only other thing is I filled up at the same gas station as before this problem surfaced. Filled up this AM, drove 20 miles, parked car, came back out 44 minutes later- instant stall.

Poured Heet in the tank, problem went away for a bit. Parked it for 4 hrs. while I took a nap and came back out and blamo- instant stalling.

Took car out and drove it bucking and surging and wanting to die, in 1st gear and feathering / pounding the throttle to keep it running (admittedly cuz I was pretty pissed).

I GOT A CODE THIS TIME. P0101 + P0170 - Maf and fuel trim - probably p0170 was a result of bad readings I figure.

Took M.B. Doc's advice and went and bought a new OVP from Fletcher Jones in LV (Lowell in parts is a cool guy, and gave me ONE HELL OF A DEAL)

Still doing it, surging at idle now, so ordered new BOSCH MAF (existing one is USED Bosch) and reset codes.

any other suggestions?

The only positive thing is that at least there are no other obvious failures that will happen since I've nailed all the other potential problems and they are due to occur anyhow, so assuming the MAF is faulty (which seems entirely possible) then I'll be OK with this.

I'm having a great time with this too FYI. I seriously thought bout taking my shotgun to this thing in the driveway or fixin to drive it off a cliff somewhere in the desert.

rjp