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Old Nov 22, 2004 | 09:37 AM
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SO i have been watching my A/F gague for the past week and noticed that my gauge is constantly in the red (lean). the gauge will bounce back and forth from lean to rich (normal) when the car is cold. One the car warms up all i get is lean condition and the car dosent feel as fast and dosent pull as hard.

I made a few WOT runs and the gague showed Stoich at Wot and usually it shows rich

is the gague to blame, bad o2, or bad gas as my father likes to think I also get the smell of rotten eggs, bad cat?

THere is no SES light and i just pulled the codes and there was nothing

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Old Nov 22, 2004 | 05:45 PM
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could be clogged injectors. Have you tried a bottle of cleaner?
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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 04:10 PM
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anyone else??

I am on Thanksgiving break and the car is sitting in a parking lot thinking about what it has done over the past few days
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You might want to check your cat converter if you smell sulfur. It'* probably on it'* way out, clogged converters will also cause a lean condition. Let us know.
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a good bottle of cleaner in the tank will also help clean out the cat.
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by 1993 SLE
anyone else??

I am on Thanksgiving break and the car is sitting in a parking lot thinking about what it has done over the past few days
Boy you better give that Bonne a whoopin! I would try some fuel injector cleaner as others have stated and maybe even pull them out and clean them by hand too.
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Rotten eggs are a sign that you're running rich, not lean. I suspect a tired O2 sensor. Reading lean when you're actually rich.
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With will on this one.....that was my problem to b4 i swapped the o2 sensors out. but could be a bad tank of gas..
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I agree with Wilwren. rotten egg smell is a rich condition.
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Agreed rotton egg smell does indicate a rich condition.
I also once got this smell from a bad tank of gas. I had water in it and somehow comfused the 02. You would not believe the smell coming from the exhaust.
I went home and tried a bottle of Isopropal gas dryer and it worked.
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