Yesterday I filled up with what I thought was bad gas at a shitty convenience store in town. 10 miles after filling up the car fell on its face around 2-3k and got worse from there. I got home and put some ocatne booster in the car to "help" but nothing changed. This morning the mechanic I took it to put TWO bottles of "Iso-heet" in the car to get rid of any water (without my knowledge, I asked him to fix it and that's what he does). The car ran even worse.
This afternoon some friends and I dropped the tank and poured out the gas only to find it looked like Mountain Dew. We blasted out the fuel line to get all that nasty shit out of there. After I put some fresh gas in there I drove it around but the problem is still there, albeit less pronounced. We also replaced the filter while we were down there.
The problem is mostly in 2nd and 3rd. Between 2-3k rpm's the tone of the car changes somewhat and it doesn't pull as hard. Above 5,800 the car falls on its face (like hitting the brakes!) in 3rd but not 2nd. In 4th the car stumbles at low rpm's and it's even worse in 5th--punch it in 5th and it doesn't go anywhere. I've driven the car 60 miles since the work and it hasn't gotten better.
Any ideas? (Sorry for the long post, just wanted to throw everything out there).
This afternoon some friends and I dropped the tank and poured out the gas only to find it looked like Mountain Dew. We blasted out the fuel line to get all that nasty shit out of there. After I put some fresh gas in there I drove it around but the problem is still there, albeit less pronounced. We also replaced the filter while we were down there.
The problem is mostly in 2nd and 3rd. Between 2-3k rpm's the tone of the car changes somewhat and it doesn't pull as hard. Above 5,800 the car falls on its face (like hitting the brakes!) in 3rd but not 2nd. In 4th the car stumbles at low rpm's and it's even worse in 5th--punch it in 5th and it doesn't go anywhere. I've driven the car 60 miles since the work and it hasn't gotten better.
Any ideas? (Sorry for the long post, just wanted to throw everything out there).
There's no guarantee that even after that work the car will run properly, because they weren't sure the wiring was the problem, that's just their "main culprit." Damn. This is adding up fast and I'm getting nowhere.
