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Old 01-14-2010, 06:57 PM
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When I hit the throttle at idle, the engine makes a "chuff" sound then revs up. The idle is good otherwise, the motor never stalls or gives any other trouble. It does not do it when you ease the throttle up, just when you hit the gas fast. Any thoughts?
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its becuase yout letting in a lot of air and it takes some time for the computor to see it need some more fuel to go with that large charge of air
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do you disconnect your battery alot or somehow loose power alot to reset your computer often? that could cause like what he is saying about your comp if it constantly has reset data
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Originally Posted by Troth
do you disconnect your battery alot or somehow loose power alot to reset your computer often? that could cause like what he is saying about your comp if it constantly has reset data
It was in storage a while and I was working on it for the last few months. So the battery has been on and off. Do you think it will subside as the computer builds data?
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It was in storage a while and I was working on it for the last few months. So the battery has been on and off. Do you think it will subside as the computer builds data?
depends on if you drive it hard or soft it should learn your habits depending on year
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how much have you driven it since? did you treat the gas so it wouldnt go bad with fuel stabilizer? did you check your fluid levels? I think all of theese are factors and your computer will adjust to the way you drive no matter hard or mellow, but I wouldnt be too hard on the jeep at first since it has been in storage. also good to everyonce in a while floor it from a stop sign or something to blast out the injectors
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how much have you driven it since? did you treat the gas so it wouldnt go bad with fuel stabilizer? did you check your fluid levels? I think all of theese are factors and your computer will adjust to the way you drive no matter hard or mellow, but I wouldnt be too hard on the jeep at first since it has been in storage. also good to everyonce in a while floor it from a stop sign or something to blast out the injectors
Thanks for the help. I will keep an eye on it and keep it driving regularly.
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Originally Posted by maverickdan
depends on if you drive it hard or soft it should learn your habits depending on year
Thanks.
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yeah keep us updated, i would change oil, coolant, gas (injector boost because of ethanol and cut it was sitting there) and dont disconnect the battery for a while, it wouldnt take long, maybe 1 hour for it to adjust almost fully to driving trends
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tps? mine did the what your talking about, maybe adjust it?
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