This morning on my drive into work I discovered that when trying to accelerate while moving at ~60mph or more the car would shudder and experience a lack of any power at all. If I continued to press down on the accelerator the car would continue to shudder and it would get worse. It felt like an eng…

Does the Check Engine Light Start flashing when your engine starts to shudder?

Nope, I get nothing from the check engine light.

The Check Engine light won’t flash or might not come on if a misfire occurs. That’s because you’re vehicle is a 1993 and has the OBDI engine management system, and OBDI doesn’t monitor for misfires. What you might want to check is the fuel pressure. If the fuel pressure is marginal the engine can s…

I’ll see if I can check that but here’s some more info. On my way into work today I kept my hand on the shifter so I could feel what the engine was doing when the care starts to shudder. During the shuddering the vibration to my hand felt steady and normal so I don’t think the engine is dying. Unfor…

Is this a manual transmission? Could the clutch be slipping? Do the rpms increase even though the mph doesn’t?

You don’t need a tach to tell if the clutch is slipping… You should be able to hear of feel the engine revving.

Has the fuel filter ever been changed?

Upon further driving I don’t think the clutch is slipping. The fuel filter hasn’t been changed since I’ve owned the car, about 1year 10k miles.

A dirty fuel filter can cause starvation, especially at highway speeds when trying to accelerate. Try replacing the fuel filter and your problem will probably go away. I think Ford used to recommend 15,000 mile fuel filter changes on this car. The filters are less than 10 bucks on-line and you ca…

93 Ford Escort Wagon loses power when trying to accelerate from 60+mph

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abates July 19, 2011, 4:36pm 7

This is a manual, it is possible the clutch could be slipping, unfortunately though I can’t say for sure whether or not the rpms are increasing, Ford neglected to include a tach in this model… How just going by the vibration feedback I get through the shift nob the rpms are increasing very much if any, the vibration stays pretty steady.

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93 Ford Escort Wagon loses power when trying to accelerate from 60+mph

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