Good news: Check engine light is still acting normal. No new codes.
Challenge: Car is misbehaving so badly right now that its got to be easier now to figure out whats wrong. Something has totally
disrupted the delivery of gasoline. It now hesitates, bucks, attempts to stall in any weather and at any speed. I am getting a lot of resistance
in the gas petal. Also, sometimes if I depress the gas petal, it bogs and almost stalls, and then suddenly accelerates. Also, I am smelling
gasoline now at every start-up. Its almost like either gasoline is getting cut-off to the motor, or its being dumped. Gas mileage seems
to have gone down quickly in the last week alone. Also, on the freeway, I attempted to tempt fate by resting my foot on the gas petal, releasing
pressure from the petal, etc, and the car didn't quit, but it bucked and after bucking would suddenly lose power, but not totaly quit. I would
then have to "force" the gas to the engine. Some of these symptoms had always been present during the last two years, but now it suddenly just
got 100% pronounced in only a week and happening 24-7, with only a few breaks with the some relief from symptom frequency. Needless to say,
I am driving the car gently now and not attempting to floor it up to 85 with these problems. I am sure I may already be ruining my new oxygen sensor.
I did buy that LUCAS GAS TREATMENT over the weekend. Haven't put it in yet. Also, this is very important, the car starts up perfectly normal in cold weather and the idle
has not really changed, but has more stumbling at the same time I have more of the other symptoms. I hope a fuel pump will solve my problem.