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'90 240 idles fine but will not produce power 200

posted by  ram151 on  Thu Oct 21 16:33 CST 2004
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I was driving my 1990 240 (280K + mi) from a 600 mi trip. Filled up with gas and drove about 100 miles when engine lost power. Pulled off road and car idled fine but when throttle increased engine would not speed up. Thought maybe a clogged fuel filter. Went to auto parts and bought new one and installed it in parking lot where I had stalled. Started engine and it ran fine and drove for about another 100 - 150 miles when same thing happened again. Stopped let engine idle for awhile and for some reason after about 10 - 15 min. it ran again. This happened again one more time before getting home. Now getting ready to trouble shoot this problem, car runs fine now but have not driven it a few miles to see if it might happen again, which it did not. Not sure that I had bad gas, or is prefilter clogged or what. Need help on what could have caused this.







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    '90 240 idles fine but will not produce power 200

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    posted by  lucid on  Sun Oct 24 05:53 CST 2004
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    You may be losing ignition as the engine torques over with increased throttle. Do a search here on Crank Position Sensor, aka RPM Sensor. If yours is original, it is probably overdue any way. About $35 at FCP.

    Here is a picture of a Crank Position Sensor in place.

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    Bruce Young
    '93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.








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    '90 240 idles fine but will not produce power 200

    posted by  someone claiming to be Manolo on  Sat Oct 23 05:12 CST 2004 [RELATED]

    This is an interesting one.

    If you don't find the answer, please provide more description of your configuration and of the way it behaves/sounds/feels when it looses power.

    If you do find the answer, please post it.







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