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Old May 4, 2010 | 01:13 AM
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well this last weekend i went to a corvette gathering, and afterwards they had a parade,a dn i was asked to transport a girl in the parade since i was the only vert that was there, so i went thru the whole route, car ran like a champ, a little warm, but nothing serious, so i get back to the start of where the parade was to go drop the girl off, then i get out onto the HWY, and the car just went full rick condition on me, so i limped it back to my parents place, and thought maybe the exhaust loaded up on me, and finally puked an O2 sensor, so i changed that, and it seemed to run a little better, but still running rich... so i let the car sit a whole day, and drove it home, ran like nothing was wrong, averaged 34 MPG on the HWY, so today i changed the sensor that is located under the throttle body (L98 car), and seems to be better, but is there any other sensors that i should be on the lookout for as far as getting it to run right... car has 150,000 on the clock


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Originally Posted by ZfidyONE-84
well this last weekend i went to a corvette gathering, and afterwards they had a parade,a dn i was asked to transport a girl in the parade since i was the only vert that was there, so i went thru the whole route, car ran like a champ, a little warm, but nothing serious, so i get back to the start of where the parade was to go drop the girl off, then i get out onto the HWY, and the car just went full rick condition on me, so i limped it back to my parents place, and thought maybe the exhaust loaded up on me, and finally puked an O2 sensor, so i changed that, and it seemed to run a little better, but still running rich... so i let the car sit a whole day, and drove it home, ran like nothing was wrong, averaged 34 MPG on the HWY, so today i changed the sensor that is located under the throttle body (L98 car), and seems to be better, but is there any other sensors that i should be on the lookout for as far as getting it to run right... car has 150,000 on the clock


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why are you just replacing stuff without at least checking for codes first?
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Originally Posted by ZfidyONE-84
well this last weekend i went to a corvette gathering, and afterwards they had a parade,a dn i was asked to transport a girl in the parade since i was the only vert that was there, so i went thru the whole route, car ran like a champ, a little warm, but nothing serious, so i get back to the start of where the parade was to go drop the girl off, then i get out onto the HWY, and the car just went full rick condition on me, so i limped it back to my parents place, and thought maybe the exhaust loaded up on me, and finally puked an O2 sensor, so i changed that, and it seemed to run a little better, but still running rich... so i let the car sit a whole day, and drove it home, ran like nothing was wrong, averaged 34 MPG on the HWY, so today i changed the sensor that is located under the throttle body (L98 car), and seems to be better, but is there any other sensors that i should be on the lookout for as far as getting it to run right... car has 150,000 on the clock


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Who cares about the car. What did the girl look like?
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why are you just replacing stuff without at least checking for codes first?
i did in fact check for codes, i got a code for rich condition, replaced the O2 sensor, and got the same code
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Who cares about the car. What did the girl look like?
she was underage
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