Hi,

We need more history on the car’s mileage and overall maintenance condition.
It doesn’t cost to create a low profile of minimal information.
A simple thing as only a state helps place the environmental conditions around the car it is subjected to.
I don’t think “claiming to be” is quite as effective for a diagnosis from those with experience on here for many years.

The Brickboard only communication is via the site, to let you know you had a response back.
Your password makes a profile available only to you and what you can edit when logged in on your account.
If you poke around you will see what I mean.

So you give up nothing when comparing it in relation to getting spamming from worse media sites.
BB is telling more along a preventative maintenance protocol that can help prevent some symptoms that you are having from occurring.

You need to tell us if it’s also hard to get started and just how much is of rough idle is happening.
Right off the top I’m thinking along the lines of a slack timing belt that may have jumped a tooth or simply bad spark plug gaps.
A misfire is quickly covered up by the self tuning system but when too many happens it gets to be a problem.
A code is not a sure shot but more like a paint ball means of a direction to observe. It won’t stop a chain reaction as its purpose or concerns are only with an emissions error. It doesn’t patch or fix.

When you say it struggles up in acceleration and fails to want to pass sixty mph you might have a collapsed muffler or catalytic converter.
The engine is having trouble getting air through the engine in a case like that. So a timing belt might be over due.
When coupling up things together the ignition system can be a point of the spear to a rotten exhaust system.
Bad ignition maintenance or the timing belt is an accumulative progression concern that nibbles away at reliability.

Spraying the AMM is not a “mechanic in a can” as I hate to inform you to this early in the game.
In fact on the early thin wire types the spray did more harm than they ever proved in doing an improvement.
When an AMM goes bad they are bad and it will let you definitely know.

BB is correct about corrosion and previous owners doing a tweak.
Like I said, some plausible history on the car is prudent communication.
With plausible you are halfway to causable. 😊

Be a good ole time citizen band radio operator and make up a good personable “HANDLE.”


I know the Brickboard hasn’t been up to par lately.
Who ever is running the site should be doing the same to the Brickboard community.

This guessing, from outsiders, about bandwidth costs is one big issue that has been building for way too long from TV to the internet.

The advertising gig is taking more and more of it for practically free. IMHO it needs a knot jerked in its tail!
Being a subscriber eventually has its limitations of what is expected from any services free or paid for.
Cannot use that “free” word anymore …. it’s obsolete or going extinct.


The Popular Science magazine folded up from the lack of good journalism and this web site will do the same without its writers and readers being both the same people.

Phil