Originally posted by PurpleMystique:
My car:
'96 Mystique Duratech ATX. 87,000 miles, bone stock.
New upstream O2 sensors, not so great downstream ones
Brand new fuel pump, kinda noisy
Almost completely out of gas

This happened for the first time this morning. It was fine on my way to church, but as I was leaving, I floored it. Right at 2500, the engine hesitated like i just took my foot off of the gas, the reengaged until 4000, where it did exactly the same thing, then finally went through and made it to second gear. I tried it a couple more times, and it didn't happen every time i floored it in first, but it seemed to only happen in first, and always at those two RPM levels.
After I filled up with gas, I drove around for a while, and it didn't happen again. I'm reeeeally hoping this is not the transmission, it's only got 87K on it. A couple weeks ago I took the car in for a CEL, turns out it was running lean and the fuel pressure was low, so the same mechanic that replaced both O2 sensors last summer put in a new fuel pump. He also mentioned that after driving around a bit with the computer hooked up he saw the downstream O2 sensors were firing fairly slow and would need replacing very soon. I'm hoping something besides tranny failure is causing this, what do you guys think?



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