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Engine Hesitation

Old 04-09-2009, 10:26 AM
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Engine Hesitation

I have a rather stranger problem last night. I was driving though a rail road track, one of the rough ones where you have to slow down and pick your line through. I drive through that every day and no problems. But last night, right after I got pass the tracks, the engine start to hesitate. I was in 5th going about 50, open up the throttle slowly and nothing. Down shift to 4th, give it more and rev still won’t go up. I ended up going slow for about a mile and it came back to life. Car is 04 with 48000 miles, oil change every 3-3.5k, plugs changed @ ~33k, pulley installed 3 weeks ago. I probably should check/replace coil/wires. Any other ideas? I’m hoping there are no problems with the engine itself, although I still have 2 years and 52k mile for engine warranty.
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which pulley was installed? crank? clear the NVRAM and make sure the tone wheel and sensor are lined up properly.

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In case anyone else is wondering: tone wheel.
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It's was the AP crank pulley. I did have a check engine light afterward, but everything was reset and the car drove fine until I hit that rough track last night.
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