Hpnotiq
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- December 6, 2002
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- City, State
- teaneck, nj
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 99 xlt
**** sorry for the long story, just want to give as much detail is possible, thank you ****
Hey i have a 99 explorer and this morning i work up and my car was idling and running REALLY rough (prior to this i have had the check engine light on as long as i could rememer... code said my car is running 2 rich or sumthing, never got the time to check it out and recently it sounds like a small hole has developed on my headers) So i wake up go 2 turn the car on and like i said its running really rough. Drove away and at like 2000-2500 rpm the engine sputters alot, after that it runs really sluggish and with lots of noise coming from the engine (the hole in the header sound got ALOT louder and the engine sounds like its sputtering just not as much) and i could also smell fuel. while driving to work i try and see if i can accletate the car hard to see what would happen and my check engine light started flashing for the first time. when i got 2 my job i checked out the engine to see if i could see anything and i realized that a black rubber jose has come off on the right side of the engine (dont know what it does but its a short line, there are 2 of them that run from a black small plastic sensor looking thing to a small metal pipe where the 2 hoses go, looks like a fuel line i guess) i put that hose back on and drove the car around, still sputters just not as much and the car is VERY sluggish when u step on it (its sounds like its being restricted) plleeaasssee help im lost as to what it could be... i know nothing about cars but its sounds like a spark plug / spark plug wire falfunction.
Hey i have a 99 explorer and this morning i work up and my car was idling and running REALLY rough (prior to this i have had the check engine light on as long as i could rememer... code said my car is running 2 rich or sumthing, never got the time to check it out and recently it sounds like a small hole has developed on my headers) So i wake up go 2 turn the car on and like i said its running really rough. Drove away and at like 2000-2500 rpm the engine sputters alot, after that it runs really sluggish and with lots of noise coming from the engine (the hole in the header sound got ALOT louder and the engine sounds like its sputtering just not as much) and i could also smell fuel. while driving to work i try and see if i can accletate the car hard to see what would happen and my check engine light started flashing for the first time. when i got 2 my job i checked out the engine to see if i could see anything and i realized that a black rubber jose has come off on the right side of the engine (dont know what it does but its a short line, there are 2 of them that run from a black small plastic sensor looking thing to a small metal pipe where the 2 hoses go, looks like a fuel line i guess) i put that hose back on and drove the car around, still sputters just not as much and the car is VERY sluggish when u step on it (its sounds like its being restricted) plleeaasssee help im lost as to what it could be... i know nothing about cars but its sounds like a spark plug / spark plug wire falfunction.
Too much hot-roddin'. Check to make sure all the plugs are in tight and that all the wires are securely on the plugs. It could be an easy, cheap fix. Or, it could be an o2 sensor. Had that happen too. 
