My sons' Stealth suddenly aquired a miss @idle, and surging bucking @ speed, 3 weeks ago. I told him to do a normal tune up.... plugs, wires... and even put new gaskets on the intake plenum (need to remove the intake to change plugs).No change.Took it to a Dodge dealer, and they ran the thing through their normal 'tests'. All they could find wrong is an actuator motor that changes the intake plenums' runner length...well, 6 hours shop time, a new motor actuator, and 9 bucks for a can of cumbustion chamber cleaner the bill came to ~$500... the 'miss @ idle' is gone, but it still misses pretty badly when ever the engine is not accelerating. Any gear, any speed. Whenever the engine is held at a constant rpm, it starts to buck and miss.Soon as I 'nail it', it screams to life, and it's business-as-usual.First thing that comes to my limited knowledge is: vehicle speed sensor? The reason I say this is because it acts sounds just like any computer controlled that is in Neutral,vehicle is stopped, and the engine is revved to 2500-3000 without a load (and it's missing, spitting and farting)...Soon as you put it in gear, and the computer 'sees' car is in motion, all is well!Does this sound like I'm on the right warpath here?(this is Mitsubishi built car, for dodge, and trying to 'learn' Japanese is not easy!)
My sons' Stealth suddenly aquired a miss @idle, and surging bucking @ speed, 3 weeks ago. I told him to do a normal tune up.... plugs, wires... and even put new gaskets on the intake plenum (need to remove the intake to change plugs).No change.Took it to a Dodge dealer, and they ran the thing through their normal 'tests'. All they could find wrong is an actuator motor that changes the intake plenums' runner length...well, 6 hours shop time, a new motor actuator, and 9 bucks for a can of cumbustion chamber cleaner the bill came to ~$500... the 'miss @ idle' is gone, but it still misses pretty badly when ever the engine is not accelerating. Any gear, any speed. Whenever the engine is held at a constant rpm, it starts to buck and miss.Soon as I 'nail it', it screams to life, and it's business-as-usual.First thing that comes to my limited knowledge is: vehicle speed sensor? The reason I say this is because it acts sounds just like any computer controlled that is in Neutral,vehicle is stopped, and the engine is revved to 2500-3000 without a load (and it's missing, spitting and farting)...Soon as you put it in gear, and the computer 'sees' car is in motion, all is well!Does this sound like I'm on the right warpath here?(this is Mitsubishi built car, for dodge, and trying to 'learn' Japanese is not easy!)