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Originally posted by Blown GR40 Mystic:
Who is the mechanic? Give him a swift kick to the nuts.

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What he said
 

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Posted by Robert (Member # 250) on :
 
Wow, you guys are fast….
OK, here is the whole story….
I bought the car a couple of years ago…. Drive it only maybe 5,000 miles a year.
The check engine light came on during the first year. I let “Mostly Mustangs” look at it, but they didn’t seen interested, then went to “Red Line Auto” and they said “Needs oxygen sensors”, 4 count them, 4. Changed them out, but a few months later, check engine light comes on again, but goes out ever few runs. I learn to live with it….
Last year I installed a cold air induction kit, looked great, didn’t do a hill of beans for performance…
Two weeks ago it starts to stall while driving slow, or coming up to a stoplight. I go to my friendly mechanic (who passed my car on smog even thought I didn’t have papers on the cold air induction) and he tells me that his scanner is saying my oxygen sensors are fine, but there must be an air leak on the intake because both sides of the exhaust are showing lean. He thinks it’s most likely from the cold air kit I put on. I take off the kit,(when I remove the kit I find out my air filter is missing from the fender well) and the stalling stops, but the “damn” light is still on.
Now I’m back at the mechanic, and he scans it again and now says the mass air meter is bad.
There you go….
Good thing I have a spare car…:-)
 

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Posted by MoostangGT (Member # 2894) on :
 
BTW... I agree with the kick in the nutz.. but I would have to do it in steel toes..

Have you tried just reseting your computer since you swaped the cold air, let it relearn the settings? Just unplug the neg cable from the battery for 15+ minutes..
 

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Posted by 91sleeper (Member # 779) on :
 
If you decide to get a new meter go with Pro-M
 

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Posted by TRIX02GT (Member # 2844) on :
 
just a thought but didn't you say the air filter fell off from the fenderwell...maybe you sucked something up into the mas air and threw it outta whack???
 

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Posted by cobraman_1994 (Member # 467) on :
 
ctake it out and clean it. the try to restart your computer. i belive the way to do that is to disconnect the battery.
and 1.5 hours for a maf swap is retarded. its like 10 mabey 20 minutes.
 

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Posted by Red97SVT (Member # 2811) on :
 
Changing the MAF = 15 min tops.

Having to "reprogram the computer" for a stock MAF swap =
 

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Posted by Blown GR40 Mystic (Member # 476) on :
 
Could we have the name of this shop?
 

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Posted by Robert (Member # 250) on :
 
Well, it’s becoming obvious why the shop needed to have my car for 20 minutes to reset the computer.
Here is what has happened in the last few days. On Friday the check engine light went out while I was driving, I think that is a first. I disconnected the battery all night on Friday, and have been driving it more than usual (doesn’t hurt that it’s so nice ourside) since then without the light coming on. We’ll see, sometimes it would take week before the light would come back on.
The name of the shop is:
Motoring Performance
1433 Mazda Drive
Walnut Creek
 

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Posted by Robert (Member # 250) on :
 
There is a mass air meter for sale on ebay off a '02. Would that work on my '97
Thanks
 

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