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Howdy! Samuel here:
Recently got my '96 2.3L 4-cylinder to run again! Sometimes, it will idle well. But often, it has a hard time maintaining idle, and gets choked up and labors/lopes. If it does maintain idle, you have to baby it when upping the RPMs, otherwise it will choke out, and once you let go of the throttle after getting it to a higher RPM it struggles to return to idle, and then starts to idle very badly.
I got these three OBD2 codes which were stored in the computer.
P0113: Intake Air Temperature Sensor 1 - Circuit High Input
P0351: Ignition Coil A - Primary/Secondary Circuit
P0352: Ignition Coil B - Primary/Secondary Circuit - this one also said "DTC Severity 2 of 3: Repair immediately if drivability issues or there is risk of damaging essential system components"
For P0113, my manual says the only way to fix that is to replace the Mass Air Flow (MAF), since the IAT is an integral component of the MAF sensor.
For the ignition coils, this seems like it is a deeper, more fundamental problem than just the coils, otherwise, would they both really be bad at the same time? The '96 2.3L has two distributor packs...maybe something is messing them up?
Appreciate it!
Recently got my '96 2.3L 4-cylinder to run again! Sometimes, it will idle well. But often, it has a hard time maintaining idle, and gets choked up and labors/lopes. If it does maintain idle, you have to baby it when upping the RPMs, otherwise it will choke out, and once you let go of the throttle after getting it to a higher RPM it struggles to return to idle, and then starts to idle very badly.
I got these three OBD2 codes which were stored in the computer.
P0113: Intake Air Temperature Sensor 1 - Circuit High Input
P0351: Ignition Coil A - Primary/Secondary Circuit
P0352: Ignition Coil B - Primary/Secondary Circuit - this one also said "DTC Severity 2 of 3: Repair immediately if drivability issues or there is risk of damaging essential system components"
For P0113, my manual says the only way to fix that is to replace the Mass Air Flow (MAF), since the IAT is an integral component of the MAF sensor.
For the ignition coils, this seems like it is a deeper, more fundamental problem than just the coils, otherwise, would they both really be bad at the same time? The '96 2.3L has two distributor packs...maybe something is messing them up?
Appreciate it!
