1996 Buick Century 3.1L V6 P1441 EVAP Problems
I have a 1996 Buick century 3.1L V6 that has recently had the head and manifold gaskets replaced. About a month later the car began to shake and sputter a lot in drive. I noticed it did this mainly in the morning or when it just rained. It would only do this in drive. When I was at stop lights I had to put the car in neutral just so it wouldn't stall out on me. It has of course stalled on me numerous times. So I took it to auto zone and they told me it was a code P1441 EVAP system- No flow during purge cycle. Which i knew right away it is most likely the EGR valve or EGR valve gasket or the EGR pipe gasket. So I went ahead and took off the old gasket which was corroded and replaced it with a new one, both the egr and the pipe. It seemed to be running fine for a while. Then today I went to drive somewhere and it started to stall again. I do not know what else it could be besides a vacuum problem and I do not want to replace a ton of parts hoping thats what it is. And if I take it in they are gonna tell me its all kinds of different things and charge me up the wazoo. I could try replacing the cheaper of the parts until I really have to replace the EGR valve. But I am not sure what else it could be besides the canister or the canister solenoid. Please help me out. Thank you
Cars & Trucks - Buick - Century - 1996 Buick Century
Answers & Comments
I work at autozone and as the man said the evap system maybe the fault that can up on the obd 2 code reader but if no ither codes came up then you
can have a problem that is not code related ( as early car 96 to 2000 the service light only covers things that are in the pollution part of the engine..
the newer cars the service engine / malfunction light will come on for many other things
if your egr is not seating on idle then you would stall at a stop if you egr stays closed then your car would be polluting and could not pass e-check
if the car is not running properly and it has a multiport fuel injected system /coilpack system
change the cranksensor ..If you have a distributor
change the pickup coil/ ignition control module
these are both in the distributor...
as long as you have good wires & plugs you should be in good shape