My friends son has a 96 cavalier Z24 with 2.4, 4 banger. It died at school on him yesterday and I went with him to check on it and read the codes. It threw several the first time we read them, mainly the one we thought was the problem was the crank sensor circuit a malfunction. we replaced that and now it still only runs on 2 cyls it seems and has a strong gas smell and throws only a code of P0440 "EVAP system malfunction. but it still will not run very well.(at all).we had to drive it last night to his grandads barbershop and park it(2miles) and the cat was glowing red . it doesn't seem to have alot of restriction in the exhaust, but it may still be stopped up. But that wouldn't explain the running badly and loping and jumping.. Reving it up is slow and boggy,, as if plugwires are not on,, but no wires on this,, we did replace plugs with no avail. We're at a loss with this,, any ideas??? you can email me at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com if you like. i will chack back in in a little while. thanks in advance for any ideas or fixes philc
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19 years ago