WAKeele
Veteran Member
OK, I've got myself what seems to be another developing problem.
On a recent 4,500 mile journey from TN to Missoula, MT and Yellowstone and back, I encountered a problem while crossing the mountains into Butte (from what I remember). It's as if the turbo just stopped working. I lost all power to accelerate and even lost some speed at some points. Very unresponsive. Even once we leveled off, it still didn't seem the turbo was working. We stopped at a rest stop or whatever in which the engine was shut off and it did just fine the rest of the way. The car made it just fine with no problems the first 25 or so hours of the trip through all sorts of hills and mountains (there was an overnight stop in SD). Even when dealing with a 10% grade incline, it functioned as usual up to about 10,000 ft through the mountains of WY on the way back. I checked all the vacuum lines and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Now this has happened before when driving up Monteagle Mt. on the way to Chattanooga a couple times after about only 20 minutes of driving. Those times it wasn't as bad and only seemed to last for a minute or so.
Any ideas?!? I've got a couple and I hope it's the much easier and cheaper one. Now as for pinpointing it and solutions, that's where you guys come in. I've got a new EGR with a little less than 10,000 miles one it.
Thanks all!
--Adam
On a recent 4,500 mile journey from TN to Missoula, MT and Yellowstone and back, I encountered a problem while crossing the mountains into Butte (from what I remember). It's as if the turbo just stopped working. I lost all power to accelerate and even lost some speed at some points. Very unresponsive. Even once we leveled off, it still didn't seem the turbo was working. We stopped at a rest stop or whatever in which the engine was shut off and it did just fine the rest of the way. The car made it just fine with no problems the first 25 or so hours of the trip through all sorts of hills and mountains (there was an overnight stop in SD). Even when dealing with a 10% grade incline, it functioned as usual up to about 10,000 ft through the mountains of WY on the way back. I checked all the vacuum lines and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Now this has happened before when driving up Monteagle Mt. on the way to Chattanooga a couple times after about only 20 minutes of driving. Those times it wasn't as bad and only seemed to last for a minute or so.
Any ideas?!? I've got a couple and I hope it's the much easier and cheaper one. Now as for pinpointing it and solutions, that's where you guys come in. I've got a new EGR with a little less than 10,000 miles one it.
Thanks all!
--Adam
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