After searching and reading a few threads, I couldn't pinpoint the answer to the problem I'm having.
I start the car, let it warm then drive off to go to work. My house is at the bottom of a hill so I'm in either 1st or 2nd. Car makes it up the hill just fine. After that, there's a second hill about a 1/4 mile away and not as steep as the first hill. Before I start to incline on the hill, the rpm's start jumping around from 1700-2500. The motor isn't revving along with the tach needle at all. I begin going up the hill and the car just starts bogging. It's barely making any power, rpm's are less than 1k and I have to play with the gas pedal just to keep it alive. Finally I get it up the hill, street levels out and the car dies. Check engine light, battery light, oil light on.
Put the car in park, turn everything off, and go to pull codes....no codes.
I turn the key to the "on" position and the CEL is still on and won't go off. Turned car off again, open hood to check everything, nothing. Go back in the car, get ready to try again, CEL comes on then goes off like it's suppose to. I decide to crank it over and it starts up. No bogging, no CEL. I drive it a mile with no problems on a hilly road. When I slow down on the last small hill before I make my turn, car starts bogging again. I turn thinking I beat the car from dying, but it just dies midway going down the hill. After a few times of switching the car from the on and off position, the CEL stayed on. One time I did it, the CEL was on, then the car jolted abit and the CEL went off. Of course after that, the car started again and I quickly drove it to work.
Now the part that I'm confused about is it only bogs and lose power when going uphill. Driving around on a flat street or if I'm going fast enough up a hill, no problems at all. I just drove 60 miles(most of it were highway miles)this weekend but I can't go 2 miles of few hills without it dying. Some threads say it's the dizzy or ignitor. My question is, why would it only cutout going uphill instead of just cutting out randomly like it does other cars that I read about? I can pretty much count on it bogging out going uphill at low speeds. Could it be the fuel pump on its way out? I'm lost and without any CEL codes, I pretty much don't know which direction to take. I'm trying to get some some kind of definite answer so I don't waste money buying a part I think might fix the problem and it doesn't.
Sorry for the long read but I tried to fit in as much infomation as I could to get my answer. Thanks in advance.
I start the car, let it warm then drive off to go to work. My house is at the bottom of a hill so I'm in either 1st or 2nd. Car makes it up the hill just fine. After that, there's a second hill about a 1/4 mile away and not as steep as the first hill. Before I start to incline on the hill, the rpm's start jumping around from 1700-2500. The motor isn't revving along with the tach needle at all. I begin going up the hill and the car just starts bogging. It's barely making any power, rpm's are less than 1k and I have to play with the gas pedal just to keep it alive. Finally I get it up the hill, street levels out and the car dies. Check engine light, battery light, oil light on.
Put the car in park, turn everything off, and go to pull codes....no codes.
I turn the key to the "on" position and the CEL is still on and won't go off. Turned car off again, open hood to check everything, nothing. Go back in the car, get ready to try again, CEL comes on then goes off like it's suppose to. I decide to crank it over and it starts up. No bogging, no CEL. I drive it a mile with no problems on a hilly road. When I slow down on the last small hill before I make my turn, car starts bogging again. I turn thinking I beat the car from dying, but it just dies midway going down the hill. After a few times of switching the car from the on and off position, the CEL stayed on. One time I did it, the CEL was on, then the car jolted abit and the CEL went off. Of course after that, the car started again and I quickly drove it to work.
Now the part that I'm confused about is it only bogs and lose power when going uphill. Driving around on a flat street or if I'm going fast enough up a hill, no problems at all. I just drove 60 miles(most of it were highway miles)this weekend but I can't go 2 miles of few hills without it dying. Some threads say it's the dizzy or ignitor. My question is, why would it only cutout going uphill instead of just cutting out randomly like it does other cars that I read about? I can pretty much count on it bogging out going uphill at low speeds. Could it be the fuel pump on its way out? I'm lost and without any CEL codes, I pretty much don't know which direction to take. I'm trying to get some some kind of definite answer so I don't waste money buying a part I think might fix the problem and it doesn't.
Sorry for the long read but I tried to fit in as much infomation as I could to get my answer. Thanks in advance.
I tempted to sig that.
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