Bad MAF?

[FstAsVR4]

My car will not run with it plugged in but as soon as you unplug it, she idles perfectly fine a little rich but fine. Do I have a mad MAF or am I missing something?

[CoreyB]

In my experience this does mean the MAF is bad.

[GTOJOE]

If your MAF is bad it should throw a CEL. When you say it doesn;t run does it not start or does it idle out?

[jbuhrman]

I would suggest MAF, as I just seen this on a car last night...

Your in the FL area so you have afew people you can get a working MAF off of either be for testing or replacement

[Atrosity]

I was with jbuhrman last night when this happened to one of the socal3s members and I knew what it was instantly because my maf was bad and did this same symptom prior.

[jbuhrman]

I was with jbuhrman last night when this happened to one of the socal3s members and I knew what it was instantly because my maf was bad and did this same symptom prior.

No Homo though of course

[FstAsVR4]

Alright thanks, my CEL is on but it's normally on since I have no cats and such. I also can't find where to plug in one of my o2 sensors so that would also throw a CEL but thanks everybody I will switch it out and see how it goes.

[RealMcCoy]

You also get the same symptoms (bad maf reading) when you blow an IC pipe... Have you checked for leaks?

[Polygon]

If your MAF is bad it should throw a CEL. When you say it doesn;t run does it not start or does it idle out?

Not necessarily. My MAF went bad but didn't throw a CEL.

[CoreyB]

You also get the same symptoms (bad maf reading) when you blow an IC pipe... Have you checked for leaks?

This is true, I overlooked that.