'97 Sport 2.5 V6 MTX 123,000 miles. I experience an itermittent miss accelerating through the 3-4K range. It doesn't happen consistently - maybe once or twice a day. Doesn't seem to matter if the engine is hot or cold, but tends to do it more when its cold. Its very abrupt - i.e. the car really jerks.
It has never stalled on me as a result of the miss, but it has stalled twice for my brother. Both cases left him unable to start immediately afterward and in one case, he almost ran the battery down trying to get it going. I've read a lot of posts about fuel starvation/filter/pump/pump screens but I'm not sure if that's it.
It seems like it just loses spark for one second during the acceleration, the car stutters, and then it accelerates out normally. I'd really like to fix this, don't like the idea of getting stranded.
Had a dealership work a CEL about 2 months ago - they replaced an O2 sensor, intake manifold gasket, and cleaned the throttle body. (The problem existed before this work was done).
Love the car - hate the problem. Help?
