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I am coming to you guys because I am not getting the help I need sadly from my guy. Anyway, moving on my car is chugging, pretty bad. 95 Cavy, 2.2 .At first it had a miss. And I know around the manifold area it is leaking pretty severly, so let me know if you think thats the problem. But anyway, its chugging badly now, it sounds like a lawn mower. The whole car basically shakes. I smell gas which I am assuming is the fumes from the leak. And this is my guess that it needs to be fixed there and it would solve my issue, but my husband doesn't believe me. Mind you, I was the one that figured out what a quad module was on my Saturn and how to fix it and my husband along with the guys he worked with at a auto parts store didn't know. I looked it up and poof it was fixed. LOL and I was the one that figured out my car was out of gas and all the guys believed it to be the timing chain. So maybe I am right again? It's chugging and doesn't want to get up to speed. Suddenly it will jump and get up to speed if you tromp on it some. Like it's plugged. At high speeds, it doesn't so much act like it's chugging. A couple of weeks ago, it was having a problem simaler to that, backfiring. And I put some gas treatment in it. Solved it for about a week. And it started this basically around the time it got hot and humid here. And rained. It's done this before but not as bad like now. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it. I put some gas treatment in it again and it didn't phase it. I wanted to get the fuel filter changed but my husband doesn't think its that since we replaced it a year ago in June. Then I wanted to get the injectors and stuff cleaned at a shop our friend owns. But he said it would be a waste of money. I would like to have opinions on what you guys think. Since I am not getting any help from him...my father seems to agree more with me. But...if this is all obvious I am sorry for wasting your time. But you guys have helped me in the past and once again proven I was right. lol (last time it was related to my back breaks.)
Nicole


UPDATE:

Today we spent a day of fixing my car. Took forever it seems. But we ended up putting a new donut gasket on and then the new bolts and springs. Fixed the leak a little, but for some reason it isn't fitting right. My husband thought it's because they gave us a wrong size? I don't know. But the one that was on there before was pretty much gone, nothing there. But there is still a leak that has yet to be fixed. So anyway, we looked at the wires (my first suggestion next to the coil at the VERY VERY beginning) and one wasn't working correctly, so we replaced those and it became less like a lawn mower. (the noise). Then we went and bought a new coil. Same one that was replaced before back in Jan 2005. Bottom one. POOF! Fixed. So now it sounds pretty good. Though there is a slight miss. Something is rattling a little bit and we aren't sure what it is yet. But the whole chugging and lawn mower noise was due to the coil. You guys were great. Thanks for helping me. I used you as my support on getting this fixed, "well the guys said..." Thanks!


Nicole

Good to hear it's fixed.

Thanks for posting the solution, it is always helpful to others.



Alont