Hi Folks,

It's been a while since I've been on the board. The head gasket job I performed earlier this year is doing swell.

Recently my 1992 Volvo 245 (roughly 176,000 miles) began to have intermittent driveability problems. The problems include:

1. Stalling at low speeds with the foot off the gas pedal. Especially at stop lights and while in parking lots.

2. Stalling when starting the car up first thing in the morning.

3. Very rough idle and low idle. When this happens the engine is rocking back and forth roughly in the engine bay.

4. Intermittent hessitation when accelerating from a stop. The hessitation is severe and sometimes causes the car to stall. Other times pumping the gas pedal will get the car moving. But it is bogging down almost like it is starving for fuel.

5. Check Engine light has come on twice with codes. 1-1-3 and 2-3-2. Something like running too rich or too lean and fuel injector failure if I remember correctly.

So anyway, these are the symptoms I'm having. Sometimes the car drives, idles, and runs great. Other times the car has lots of trouble just running correctly at idle.

So far I have done the following:

A. Cleaned the throttle body.

B. Cleaned the IAC.

C. Checked for vacuum leaks or unconnected hoses.

I'm due for a tune up anyway, so I will be replacing the distributor cap, rotor, spark plugs, plug wires, air cleaner, and fuel filter.

Besides that is there anything else I should be looking at?

I'm wondering if these types of symptoms are an indicator that the in-tank fuel pump is going bad.

Thanks for any advice you guys might have.

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