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94 Camry loss of power issues
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Wesdabest
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Jun 29, 2008, 6:38 PM
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94 Camry loss of power issues
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Hello everyone. First time posting here and I hope you can help. I have a 1994 Toyota Camry (4 cyl auto trans). It has 259,000 miles on it. It’s been an amazing car. The only things that have messed up are the AC (we had repaired and has worked fine ever since) and the rear power window regulator (which we repaired) and of course the timing belt.
About a year ago, I was coming home and the car simply shut off. I took it to a local repair center and they said it was the fuel injector. They replaced it, and I went to pick it up. When I picked it up, I noticed it was having some loss of power issues. It felt like the transmission was slipping. Something was definitely wrong. I took it back and they said they’d take a look at it. They called and said they couldn’t find anything wrong with it. I needed the car and just decided to take it like it was. Now I’m about to leave home to head up to Georgia Tech for college and I don’t want to be driving around downtown Atlanta with a car that doesn’t have any “get up and go” when I need it.
Here are the basic symptoms:
If the car is in Reverse, Neutral, or Drive, every few seconds the engine will sort of “stutter.” It’s as if the car isn’t receiving gas to the engine for a split second. The car does not do this if it’s in Park. If the car is in Park, the engine runs fine with absolutely no stuttering. I’ve noticed that when the car is completely stopped but is in Drive (red light/stop sign), the car will stutter and when it stutters the RPM meter goes down very quickly to 0 then back up to a normal idle RPM reading.
The car stutters (loss-of-power) mostly when starting off in the 1 and 2 gears. For example, I pull up to a stop sign, make a complete stop, then moderately press the gas. The car will take off then kind of stutter (complete loss of throttle for half a second) then take off again then stutter and the cycle continues until about 3.5k RPMs. Then in 2 gear it does the same thing. Most of the time in 3 and 4 gear I don’t have the problem.
Every once in a while, I’ll be going 65 mph in 4 gear down the highway and it will start stuttering then stop a few miles down the road, but this rarely happens.
Temperature seems to have little effect on the problem. It happens no matter if it’s 20 degrees outside or 105.
It feels like the transmission is slipping. I’ve always thought that, and other people with much more car knowledge than me who’ve driven the car have said the same thing. The problem with this is that the problem started after I had my fuel injectors replaced. This leads me to believe it is something with the fuel system. Also the fact that the RPM’s dip down to 0 when it stutters makes me think fuel system. The problem with all my theories is that I know nothing about cars. I recently brought it to a car technician and he said he drove it around and it was driving fine. He’s full of it and just doesn’t want/know how to fix the problem. This is the reason I’m asking you guys. I’m a broke college student who’s trying to fix this problem with as little cost as possible.
What other details should I give? What do you think it could be?
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dave284
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Jul 3, 2008, 11:24 AM
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Re: 94 Camry loss of power issues
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The problem you described sounds like the trans slipping.....check the fluid, the smell and the color can give a little info of its condition, when was the fluid changed last? Also check the linkage and sensor connections at the throttle body.
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