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Question: does not accelerate

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Visitor, 5.2L V8, San Antonio, TX, March 18, 2010, 05:36

I have changed the cap,rotor,plugs,wires,pick-up coil, thinking it was just a commom misfire. It seems to run fine at idle, but when I put it in to drive and attempt to accelerate, it falls on it's face and runs as if it has a bad misfire. I've also noticed that when I can finally get it to about 30mph and hit the gas to make it down shift, it cut's off and on as if it's hitting rev limiter.

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Visitor, March 23, 2010, 11:18

My 96 XJ was doing the same thing. It started small but then got bad quickly. TUrns out it was a plugged catoletic (sp?) converter. Now it has all the power it used to.

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