car randomly begins running rich

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inteGReddy
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car randomly begins running rich

Post by inteGReddy »

i have the plx wideband installed (wired into the eld wire) and i have noticed my car doing funny stuff as of late. yesterday i was driving and noticed my car doing weird things when i let off of the gas. it would sound like it was revving down and then hiccup around 2000k rpm (it would like stop there for a second) and then rev down to idle...

at idle it seeemed to prefer keeping the car at 10:1 afr instead of 14.7:1 which it normally is at. also, the check engine light didnt come on and im pretty sure it didnt change into open loop. it also seemed to be running awfully rich throughout the rpms but it ran richest when idling. when i got home i shut it off and started it right back up and it then was idling at 14.7:1 again.

i havent had the time to do too much diagnostics on this yet but i was just wondering if neone else has seen this happen...
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Spunkster
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Post by Spunkster »

Check your wideband wiring, you may have a bared wire somewhere grounding out.
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