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The Car Runs But There's No Power


mktbully

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at idle the car runs perfectly fine.

when i try to rev it at idle it goes up to around 1K and then the tach falls if i try to rev it farther. after i release the gas the tach bounces back up to the idle speed. i did the tune up and that didn't solve anything.

now when driving...if i step on the gas hard it doesn't feel like there's any power. if i lightly hit the gas and pretty much stay below that 1K mark then it drives fine...slow but fine.

i can pretty much rev the car at idle w/o a problem but the tach is pegged at 0.

i've replaced the caps, rotors, plugs, air filter, the TB looks clean, also replaced the MAF.

what else can it be? there's a faint gas smell in the exhaust but i'm thinking it doesn't smell THAT bad. oh and when i pulled the plugs one plug was wet with gas. this also started when the recent cold snap in NYC.

what else can it be?

timing belt slip? it looks ok when i took the upper covers off

coils?

TPS?

the car is a 92 SC400

i hate to give up on this car.

any suggestions?

Thanks for reading. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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with a little search on this forum i saw a few threads about ignition coil.

well guess what...it was the coil.

good part is the car needed a tune up anyway...now the car really hauls !Removed!.

hope someone reads this thread in the future and it may help someone else out.

thanks!

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with a little search on this forum i saw a few threads about ignition coil.

well guess what...it was the coil.

good part is the car needed a tune up anyway...now the car really hauls !Removed!.

hope someone reads this thread in the future and it may help someone else out.

thanks!

Hi,

Did it suddenly lose power or was it gradual? Also, did the steering wheel suddenly feel a little stiff? Just curious... Did you have to change ALL the coils?

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