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Okay im going to try and explain this from last night all the way until tonight to see if anyone can truely help me. Last night i felt like doing a fluid check. I got to my coolant overflow and i checked it and when i pulled the dipstick out it was like covered in crap... so i pulled my battery out pulled out the canister and cleaned it out real good. Spent like an hour cleaning out the coolant canister and hooked the battery back up. Well i didnt drive my car from then on that night got up this morning went to school (car ran like a charm) came back home from school same thing... then i wanted to head to walmart and i got on I95 and started doing about 80 mph in fifth and this v6 charger flew by me and i felt like having a little fun so i didnt downshift just put the pedal to the floor.... and nothing the car wouldnt move it sat at 80. I was like okay so i downshifted to fourth... car went up to like 83-85 until it reached like 3500 rpms then it wouldnt do anything. So i pulled over immediately and did a walk around check saw nothing wrong with the car turned it on and got back on 95 but the car was completely different by now and felt like i was towing a 2 ton boat. No matter how hard i pushed on the accelerator it slowly reached up to 3500 rpms and would make a horrible clanking sound until i shifted. So i turned around and went back home. The whole time i was trying to see what the car was doing everytime i stepped on the gas the car felt like it was dying but the rpms where fine they still wouldnt go over 3500.
I went to visit my stepdads brother (ASE cert tech) told me couldnt find anything wrong from just looking and that he needed to run a diagnostic on it and couldnt till he was off. He said that maybe because i had the battery unhooked for a bit that it could of thrown the computer off and he said it will take a bit of driving to get it back into its normal mode. I drove about 30 miles with the car like that and i dont see how it could be computer affecting when my engine sounds like someones taking a jackhammer to it when it tries to go over 3500 rpms in each gear! If anyone has had this happen to their 3.8 please let me know what was wrong, or if a tech knows, have a feeling ill be calling gm for a new crate motor! :mad:
O yeah and when i got home from 95 i put it in neutral and revved it and my engine sounded like a bird was hiding inside it (sounded just like a chirp in each rev). First time or two i started it it smoked right underneath the power steering fluid box. When i got to my stepdads brother the chirp was gone and no more smoke, but car still did its stupid stuff (of course he wouldnt drive the car said he was busy).
I went to visit my stepdads brother (ASE cert tech) told me couldnt find anything wrong from just looking and that he needed to run a diagnostic on it and couldnt till he was off. He said that maybe because i had the battery unhooked for a bit that it could of thrown the computer off and he said it will take a bit of driving to get it back into its normal mode. I drove about 30 miles with the car like that and i dont see how it could be computer affecting when my engine sounds like someones taking a jackhammer to it when it tries to go over 3500 rpms in each gear! If anyone has had this happen to their 3.8 please let me know what was wrong, or if a tech knows, have a feeling ill be calling gm for a new crate motor! :mad:
O yeah and when i got home from 95 i put it in neutral and revved it and my engine sounded like a bird was hiding inside it (sounded just like a chirp in each rev). First time or two i started it it smoked right underneath the power steering fluid box. When i got to my stepdads brother the chirp was gone and no more smoke, but car still did its stupid stuff (of course he wouldnt drive the car said he was busy).
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