88 celebrity driving rough
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i have an 88 celebrity eurosport with the 2.8 in it. i was in a highway last week going to get parts for a tracker that my family also owns and my car backfired twice and then stalled, and started right back up after giving it a minute to cool off. blew my muffler apart completely. (it was the stock one too!) i replaced the exhaust from the tailpipe all the way to about under the seat approximately. it was driving rough, cutting my gas mileage in half, horrible gas smell, car shakes tremendously, and it’s lacking acceleration. before all of this happened, i drove it everyday (it’s my daily), and it was perfectly fine. just normal everyday driving. now i changed the plugs and it’s still doing the same stuff. when i changed them today i noticed that 2 of them had a gas smell and were burnt looking. i have all new wires, and a new coil pack. please help. i love this car so much and i don’t want it to continue to drive like crap.
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i have an 88 celebrity eurosport with the 2.8 in it. i was in a highway last week going to get parts for a tracker that my family also owns and my car backfired twice and then stalled, and started right back up after giving it a minute to cool off. blew my muffler apart completely. (it was the stock one too!) i replaced the exhaust from the tailpipe all the way to about under the seat approximately. it was driving rough, cutting my gas mileage in half, horrible gas smell, car shakes tremendously, and it’s lacking acceleration. before all of this happened, i drove it everyday (it’s my daily), and it was perfectly fine. just normal everyday driving. now i changed the plugs and it’s still doing the same stuff. when i changed them today i noticed that 2 of them had a gas smell and were burnt looking. i have all new wires, and a new coil pack. please help. i love this car so much and i don’t want it to continue to drive like crap.
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i have an 88 celebrity eurosport with the 2.8 in it. i was in a highway last week going to get parts for a tracker that my family also owns and my car backfired twice and then stalled, and started right back up after giving it a minute to cool off. blew my muffler apart completely. (it was the stock one too!) i replaced the exhaust from the tailpipe all the way to about under the seat approximately. it was driving rough, cutting my gas mileage in half, horrible gas smell, car shakes tremendously, and it’s lacking acceleration. before all of this happened, i drove it everyday (it’s my daily), and it was perfectly fine. just normal everyday driving. now i changed the plugs and it’s still doing the same stuff. when i changed them today i noticed that 2 of them had a gas smell and were burnt looking. i have all new wires, and a new coil pack. please help. i love this car so much and i don’t want it to continue to drive like crap.
That's the easier stuff. One other thing to check is physical timing. If the engine jumped timing by a tooth, this stuff happens. Backfiring and running very badly/stalling, if it runs at all.
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