Okay so my everyday car is not practical, so I bought a 95 dodge avenger with a 2.5 v-6 with 140,000 miles as a work car/winter car. Being told it only needed a front headgasket and I had a friend who would do the repair for 100 bucks and the gasket itself was only 25 bucks, I went with it. The car was only 500 bucks. And I didn't pay for it. So hey... free car! But I didn't know what I was getting myself into apparently haha.

Anywho, I replaced the headgasket only to find it wasn't blown. So I assumed they meant rear... and it wasn't either. So replaced it anyway. Then found a mouse nest on top of my inlet pipe from the waterpump to thermostat. It rusted out that pipe so it was sending a false code. I replaced that pipe and that code went away.

I replaced the timing belt, waterpump, alternator, spark plugs, spark plug wires, both o2 sensors, the entire exhaust, the cat converter, distributor cap/rotor, ECU was switched but did no difference, I didn't NEED all these things but I figured while torn apart I might as well, and some of them were "ideas" of why it was stalling.....

It runs perfect. It's amazing, but after a few minutes of running,like if I stop at a stop sign/light, or generally just let off the gas, it stalls. My rpms go crazy when I'm idle. They gradually work their way to 0. If it's in park it will idle ok SOMETIMES, but usually, it's up and down and then it dies.... ALSO, it has NO power going down the road, I will have the pedal to the floor and my rpms are at 2 grand and I'm going 25 and it takes forever to get to the 25. Every once in awhile my rpms jump and my car launches forward. It's extremely irritating and I'm trying to get it fixed before winter because my car goes into winter hibernation. ANY ADVICE would be wonderful!!!

I've put over 2,000 in this car already and it's practically brand new now so getting rid of it is not an option. It'd be stupid because I know whatever it is can't be serious because of how wonderful it runs when I AM pushing the gas haha. Stupid stupid car........



we did a fuel test and it's getting plenty, the fuel filter looks brand new as well but we replaced it to be safe. I did have a code that said BANK 1 LEAN BANK 2 RICH. I have no idea what to do my mechanics are stumped. Anyone have any ideas?