Alrighty. For the longest time, I've had this problem with my car hesitating at about 2 grand in every gear. I tried everything...Plugs, Wires, Cap, Button, Coil....so I said screw it, its not in the ignition. I figured from there it had to be in the fuel. I thought ok its either something like the fuel filter/pump or something in my emissions (EGR).
The other day I tried changing my fuel filter just for shits and giggles so that I could check that off the list as another thing that wasn't causing this hesitation........it worked
So I'm like hell yah! Its about damn time right?...Wrong.
A couple days later I'm waxing the ever living poop out of my car to get ready for a AL car meet (orginally planned at *HO.com). Anyways, I'm cleaning out the engine bay, and I run across 2 lines. I mean little bitty lines. They both run from some thin, black metal tips...One goes off to the intake manifold and the other.....I can't remember. One says "16" and the other says "24". (It can't be the gauge because the 24 is bigger.)
The one that runs into the intake manifold was unhooked.
The other one that I can't remember where it runs to, was unhooked from that thin, black, metal tip from which they both start out at (side by side).
I figured that I must have knocked them loose when I was changing my fuel filter so I re-connected them.
The next morning I'm headed to the gas station and that hesitation is back, and I'm like nooooo! Then I realize....those damn lines!
So I pull in the gas station and disconnect them again in the same fashion that I found them. No more hesitation. This is weird. All I can figure (since I don't really know) is that maybe those 2 lines are vacuum lines working with the EGR and that the EGR was TRUELY my real problem. And somehow unhooking those 2 hoses just Ghetto-bypassed the EGR?
Finding this was a complete accident. I didn't even mean to disconnect those 2 lines when changing my filter. I've had no problems with the motor with them disconnected other than my engine light coming on once or twice. But now it hasn't come on for days. Motor sounds, feels, performs great. I notice no immediate problem with leaving these unhooked. Does anyone recognize these lines? Is this going to hurt anything?
Location of the lines: One hooks to the VERY right side of the manifold (closest to the fuel filter) and the other curves off in front of it, hooking up to something right in front of it. I don't remember. They both come from matching black steel lines that run parallel to one another. Each line is no more that a foot long, if that. Any help guys?
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