Q: new distrbutor and module still stalls at red lights could the ecm be going bad
Broncos was stalling on freeway first then it could stall anytime so I changed the tfi module and it was good for a week then the issue came back so I put a new distributor two days ago and it stalled like three times at red light tonight drove on the freeway home and it never stalled, so now I'm thinking to replace ecm computer is going bad issue is sparatic
My car has 280000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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