My XJ has had a little stumble when started up on rainy, cold days (or what passes for them here in SoCal). It starts fine, but runs noticeably non-smooth. Once I get it moving it runs better usually. Only happens after a rain or when it's cold in the morning.
Yesterday it lasted all day. It cut off on me 10-12 times (always restarted fine afterwards) in rush hour traffic, stop and go. When stopped, the idle seems fine (around 750 RPMs or so), but when you push the pedal to move again it stumbles, tach drops for a split-second, and then recovers. Many times it would not recover and stalled...and it's an automatic trans.
Also stalled out many times when backing out of a parking space later last night. It really feels like a teenage kid learning to drive a stick-shift and stalling it out.
I don't think it's a gas-quality issue, since it's OK @ speed when the road opens up.
I also heard a little pop/burble from the exhaust a few times when it stumbled and recovered.
** forgot protocol: It'a an 88 XJ Limited, 4WD, 4.0, 300K miles or so.**
Any ideas where to start looking next week? There goes my xmas break....
Yesterday it lasted all day. It cut off on me 10-12 times (always restarted fine afterwards) in rush hour traffic, stop and go. When stopped, the idle seems fine (around 750 RPMs or so), but when you push the pedal to move again it stumbles, tach drops for a split-second, and then recovers. Many times it would not recover and stalled...and it's an automatic trans.
Also stalled out many times when backing out of a parking space later last night. It really feels like a teenage kid learning to drive a stick-shift and stalling it out.
I don't think it's a gas-quality issue, since it's OK @ speed when the road opens up.
I also heard a little pop/burble from the exhaust a few times when it stumbled and recovered.
** forgot protocol: It'a an 88 XJ Limited, 4WD, 4.0, 300K miles or so.**
Any ideas where to start looking next week? There goes my xmas break....
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