Anonymous Posted on Apr 29, 2009

Hestitates and bogs down when shifting gears...

The cat is gutted and welded. Yesterday I found a spark plug on top of the last coil pack loose. When I tightened it up the check engine light went off and the camaro stopped idoling hard and started puring like it should. So today after welding the cat converter I noticed that there is still hestitation when I shift gears. I think by gutting the cat it helped give it its power back, but it still bogs down. EGR replaced. Gutted cat-welded and it is not idoling hard anymore. After taking it up town and back home (Home is about 17 miles from town) i felt it start to mess up again, and sure as **** when I went to shift up it lost power and the check engine light started blinking again (what does this mean????). If anyone out there has had this problem or knows what I should do please help. I am still working on getting a code reader. I have done everything that the codes first indicated were wrong and now I am all out of ideas and I am very flustered...Thank you...

Anonymous Apr 29, 2009

I have a 96 camaro V6 3800 II. Is this what u were asking. i am tired so my post are not exactly that great.

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Do you have a ohm meter? Resistance check the coils.

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