LXrocks
12-16-2008, 06:45 AM
Ok so I just replaced the lower heater hose and the coolant bypass hose on our car but now I am having trouble with the car. after I got it back to gather i started it and let it run for a little while and it seamed to run fine. after a short time i tried taping the gas to get the engine to run slower and i heard what sounded like the car starting to backfire and then it slowed down. i taped the gas again and it made the sound again but this time it sped back up to where it was before and it did this a couple times until i just let it idle at the slower speed for a short time before turning it off. maybe a hour later i took it out for a drive near our house and it seamed like it was running fine so i took it for a short drive on a kind of windy road near our place and this is where i found two new problems. first the car overheated but i think that was my fault because i was in sort of a hurry and never rechecked the coolant level and i made it home ok with the heater on full blast. the other problem is that every time i would come to a stop the engine would run slower and slower. it never stalled but i kept it on the gas a little. when i would try to accelerate after stopping the engine sat there and hardly did a thing for a second and then it would speed up. I'm guessing something with the vacuum system right? I'm pretty sure i put everything back to gather right but then again i'm not perfect. while i had everything apart and i was waiting for the one hose to come by UPS i cleaned some of the engine bay and i might have gotten some water in one or two of the vacuum hoses by mistake, could this be causing the vacuum system to act up? i am probably going to check all of the lines again since i put everything back to gather after dark with two flashlights and i could have missed something. any ideas or thoughts?