Hey everybody!

I've been lurking for some time now, just started posting.

I have a puzzle I've been trying to figure out with my Stratus:

I got the timing belt replaced at 86,000 miles(it broke on the highway in the middle of nowhere), and since then, I've had a "Check Engine" light that won't go away. I checked the codes, and it says EGR valve and Crank Position sensor. It drives fine around town, but on the highway, behaves normally until you get to about 3,200RPM in passing gear. Then, it starts to lope and stumble, and it feels like it's losing power, almost as if the tranny is disengaging but the engine is trying to make power.

I can't figure it out. Any ideas?

 

if a shop did the work take it back to them and ask what the "F". did you look to see if everything was reinstalled the correct way? could be something as dumb as a loose wire or hose tossing the code.

let us know.

 

I wish it was that simple; the shop is 5 hours away in Irondale, Alabama. we had the repair done in sort of an emergency, we being stuck there because of the timing belt. They took a look at it before we had to leave, but getting the codes was all we had time for.

I'm still looking everything over when I get the time. The only thing I could find under the hood so far was the intake hose being loose on the engine side. I tightened the hose clamp but the loping and stumbling is still there.

I'm thinking that maybe (and it's a BIG maybe) the timing belt ruined the crank position sensor when it broke, and the loose intake hose might have caused the EGR code?

I'm stumped, but I'm gonna go try to put it on a code reader and see if tightening the intake hose caused any change.