Hello,
I wasn't having any luck posting on the other thread so i figured i would try my luck starting my own thread! see this is very important because my parents are very low income, and both handicap. i am 24, i worked 6 years at UPS, but recently left cause we couldn't get anyone to take care of my parents.
short version, my dad has Liver Cirrhosis and has had 4 hip surgery's... recently had his right hip removed. he weighs 220lbs so its quite hard to get him around.
my mom has MS(multiple sclerosis makes her shaky, had to relearn to write with opposite hand and needs a walker to walk), and had a skin problem in which she has no skin from mid shin to ankle on her left leg. it requires cleaning and such 2 times a week at harbor view hospital(some kind of charity thing cuz we cant afford it) and we have been going to the hospital 2 times a week for the past 7 years... the hospital thinks they might be able to get her a skin graph soon(pray to god, she had 1 a long time ago that failed). so we need this car to running properly.
Car : 1988 Ford Tempo Automatic
what happens : the car usually starts up fine, and we leave our house in Kirkland, we go 405 south, hit i90 east, go i5 north and take the first exit... heres the problem, right as we get off the freeway the car kills. and we can start it back up but it will studder and usually not go anywhere. me being young, i can modulate the throttle and bounce it enough to usually get off the road. then we get stuck waiting for the car to cool down, then it drives again.
BUT the car doesn't overheat, and it barely even shows like half temperature. if your over 60mph the car is fine. but if your under it will studder and stall. having the heater full blast helps. the more gas you in the tank helps. when its low its worst. and it usually dies after its completely warmed up, like 10miles or so.
we have taken it to shops, and places no one knows what the problem is. i read that it might be the fuel pump , but we had a friends mechanic work on it, and he ended up keeping the car for way to long, and i think he just sold our fuel pump without installing it. he said thats not the problem and gave the car back. how could i tell if he put the new pump in?
and yeah, anyways i need help getting the car fixed any ideas?
- Eric V.
1988 Ford Tempo Stalling HELP~ 
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