Hey guys,

On the way home from work today my 'Stang started acting real weird. All of a sudden it started acting like it was gonna stall, shaking when at a stop light, and really sounding screwed up when driving (like a throaty put-put). It felt like it was seriously gonna die as I was easing it into my car-port.

Idling it sounded like it was gonna stall any second.

Ran the system check. No problems.

Turning the engine off, I jumped out and popped the hood. Nothing seemed out of place, no visible leaks. Checked all the fluids, and played with all the connectors I could see to see if something was loose. That's about the extent of my troubleshooting abilities ( ) so I let it sit for 2 mins while I went into the house, changed into some jeans and then I hopped back in and started it up.

She started up without any problems, I let 'er idle for a bit and walked around. Checked under the hood, no problems, no weird sounds. Backed out, drove around for a bit, came home, no problems.

Just a fluke? Or should I look into something? Advice?

 

what year & model is it ?

 

Any mods?

 

2007 GT
FRPP Stingers
Granatelli CAI

Never had it do this before. Back in August the throttle was replaced. Haven't had any issues like this, though...before or since.

 

That would be my first guess.

 

Clean the throttle body

 

Gms????

 

Have you driven through water/puddles lately?

 

does the Granatelli CAI include a tune?

 

Arrow,
My GMS CAI did this once when I washed my engine. The jumper to the Maf got water in it. Dried it out and all been good ever since.

 

sounds familiar I got one coil above a plug wet and it sounded like crapola and died would not fire they had heard same thing before so it was replaced and I made sure never ever to get the engine wet again !

 

Could be you drove through a puddle and got something wet. Could also be that the fuel filter needs to be changed out.

 

Well, it has been raining, but I haven't had the car out in the wet.

When I checked under the hood, I specifically checked that jumper from the GMS MAF, and I remember it being dusty, but not wet. Well, it's very windy tonight, so hopefully if something IS wet, it'll dry out. But she ran fine after I turned her off and restarted, as I wrote in my first post, so maybe it was just a fluke.