Guys,
I'm new here and hoping your expertise and experience will help. My 2000 GT with the 3.8L has a weird problem. Every day I drive the car to work, about 40 miles. For the last six months I have had a strange problem. I will take off with no problems, about 4 miles down the road the engine will shudder. Its like a miss and when it happens I lose the tach, but nothing else. The engine runs perfect the rest of the way. If I stop and cut the engine off and restart, the tach will come back and everything is fine. This happens every time I drive and at almost exactly the same time. The last time out it got worse. I started home and about 4 miles down the road it does the miss thing, only this time it kills the engine as well as the tach. I pull over to the road side, restart and everything is fine. Tach is back and drive the rest of the way home with no problem. It always does it about 4 or 5 miles in, and will not repeat even if you drive 200 miles. I only notice it the first startup in the morning or afternoon.
Any ideas?
I'm new here and hoping your expertise and experience will help. My 2000 GT with the 3.8L has a weird problem. Every day I drive the car to work, about 40 miles. For the last six months I have had a strange problem. I will take off with no problems, about 4 miles down the road the engine will shudder. Its like a miss and when it happens I lose the tach, but nothing else. The engine runs perfect the rest of the way. If I stop and cut the engine off and restart, the tach will come back and everything is fine. This happens every time I drive and at almost exactly the same time. The last time out it got worse. I started home and about 4 miles down the road it does the miss thing, only this time it kills the engine as well as the tach. I pull over to the road side, restart and everything is fine. Tach is back and drive the rest of the way home with no problem. It always does it about 4 or 5 miles in, and will not repeat even if you drive 200 miles. I only notice it the first startup in the morning or afternoon.
Any ideas?
