88 lxi studders a 1800-2200 rpms

[fastlane2425]

My 88 lxi studders at 1800 to 2200 rpms. On the tachometer my rpms needle will pulse when i am accelerating between those rpms. It will help alot if you know what that is caused from. I just did a tune up, spark plugs, wires, rotor, and cap and it is still doing the same thing.Is it because my distribitor is going out. Please help me.

[hondamanlxi]

When you replaced your cap and rotor, was there a bunch of red dust? If so, then its your dizzy.

[danronian]

My 88 lxi studders at 1800 to 2200 rpms. On the tachometer my rpms needle will pulse when i am accelerating between those rpms. It will help alot if you know what that is caused from. I just did a tune up, spark plugs, wires, rotor, and cap and it is still doing the same thing.Is it because my distribitor is going out. Please help me.

You didn't quite do a "complete" tune-up. Often the distributer bearing in these engines do seize and make it so there is play in the distributer cap which messes up with performance, but if this is the case, there should be that large amount of red dust inside the cap and beneath the cover under the rotor. A complete tune-up includes changing the two o2 sensors on the exhaust manifold, these are often the culprit of poor performance and emissions test failures. They are not always easy to get out, and if you buy the plug-and-play part they aren't cheap, but they should give you back alot of the original performance the engine once had. You would think the ecu would give a code about the failing sensors but the earlier car ecu's don't often detect the slowly failing and old o2 sensors as being a problem. Good luck!
I actually have the same problem around 2500-3500RPM and I have replaced everything tune-up related except those two damn expensive sensors. I went from cheapest to most expensive and of course the most expensive and hardest to get out parts are the ones that must be causing my problem.