I recently started having a problem. My van decides that it doesn't want to accelerate. I have to press on the gas and there is a delay before it accelerates. It's ok to drive and continues without hesitation - it's just from a stop that it delays.. what could be the problem?

 

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Do you have the 2.2/2.5 or the 3.0L engine?

 

It is a 2.5

 

It also makes more of a whining sound when you try to accelerate more than usual.

 

used to have an issue with little stones getting caught under the egr valve pintle causing that issue

 

it was my transmission which equals death to my van.. it has stopped down shifting.. I give it a week

 

There comes a time when that's the sensible thing to do. We sent our 88 to the great salvage yard in the sky last summer over an accumulation of things that were going to take far more to fix than the van was worth, even to me.