Had autozone check it, P0171 bank 1
fuel mixture too lean (rough idle is all I noticed).
Not exact matches
Think about an engine with a
too rich
fuel mixture.
Jim theorizes that low coolant caused portions of the engine to get
too hot, so the temperature sensing computer thought it was very cold outside, and made the
fuel - air
mixture too rich (less air).
On the other hand, a spark plug which is
too cold, will tend to not burn all of the air
fuel mixture within the cylinder, which also means worse gas mileage and sub-par performance as well.
@MeltingDog, if by flooding you mean that the air -
fuel mixture is
too rich for ignition to take place then yes, that is the hypothesis.
The
fuel / air
mixture gets sucked through the engine like normal but fails to combust due to being
too thin.
Too much
fuel during the start and warm up, but in normal operation the
mixture is correct and it burns soot from the plugs.
If the air filter is clogged enough, the resultant air -
fuel mixture could be
too rich for
fuel management to rectify, resulting in sputtering / stalling.
You could have a loose throttle cable or it could be frayed, the carburetor
mixture could be off, the carb's accelerator pump may not be squirting enough
fuel when the throttle is applied quickly (the pump could also be sending
too much
fuel, flooding then engine), or the engine timing could be off.
The computer is calculating an air /
fuel mixture that is
too lean.
It could possibly be that your
fuel - air
mixture is
too lean, which means there's no excess
fuel to evaporate and cool the engine.
System
too lean means that the
fuel mixture has moved beyond the ability of the feedback system to compensate.
Slap on the rich
fuel mixture and run with it for
too long and you'll find your car stuttering towards the end of the race, barely able to accelerate out of the corners.
A small mistake and you
mixture either burns
too hot, eroding your nozzle, or
too cool, and you run out of
fuel.
10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power plant that had been converted to burn a
mixture of pulverized coal, hog
fuel (lumber waste that was
too low quality to make paper from) and RDF (refuse derived
fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized bed combustor.