vacuum leak
If the engine is sucking in extra air that shouldn’t be there, it can make the car run poorly or even stop. It’s like a hole in a vacuum cleaner that lets air leak in.
A vacuum leak occurs when air enters the engine’s intake system outside of the controlled throttle path, upsetting the air‑fuel mixture and causing rough idling or stalling.
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"It would stall out just like any vacuum leak would cause stalling, and then it could start right back up again..."
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"...you'll get a slow response code in them that if it's not caused by something else like a mass air flow or a vacuum leak, yeah, you can get that."
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