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JEREMIECARRIER

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1988 BUICK LESABRE
131,000 MILES

Hi I have 3.8 Vin c lesabre limited

Engine stalling under acceleration but only sometimes

Same time gauges go crazy like blurring ok messed up display(all electronic gauges )

Car dies when this happens

Restart as soon or like 40 secs later and sometimes work good for a little while

Looking forward on crank/cam sensor or ignition module

Am I in the good way? Seems to be typical problem with those engines

Would appreciate procedures for testing these sensors

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ASEMASTER6371

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I would look more at the emc. It is a common failure for the symtoms you mentioned. Have it checked before throwing parts at it.

Roy

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 AT 11:46 AM

JEREMIECARRIER

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Hi me again worked a bit on the car today found a wire to ignition module (purple) skinned : the guys who installed the remote starter did this a third wire running from there to remote module ; playing with it was killing the car. This is fixed and the car now stays alive never dies. At same time I cleaned contact between base and module plus main engine ground witch is close plus dielectric grease on every spark plug wires. Now no fire on 1-4 I know they on the same coil. These coil packs are not cheap coil pack is type 1 6 coils together I want to test them and the module before I put that Mutch money in it. If I have to I will car is in real great condition and I have 8 new tires for it so I d like to keep it as long as possible please help