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My ss has been running fine when suddenly the other day it crapped out on me. I was accelerating in 3rd (moderately) when the engine lost all power, I started giving it some throttle and the car started jerking real hard. i pulled over and the engine barely staying alive at 500rpm or so, shaking badly. adding throttle did nothing but perhaps prevent it from stalling, which it eventually did. Tried to restart, no dice. Pondered a couple minutes, restarted and again ran badly at 500 rpm, and died again.

I had replaced the fuel pump a couple months ago so i checked that, everything looked connected and ok, and pump was running good.

So i checked under the hood to see if the engine is getting fuel. I pulled the hose off the fuel filter and got some fuel shooting out, but mostly what sounded like air bleeding out. I let it all bleed out, reconnected the hose, and started it up and it ran fine. Been running fine since.

Any ideas? Im worried its gonna crap out again on me.

Sounds to me like a good sized vacuum leak, but the whole fuel thing is kinda weird...

I am dumbfounded lol

Any CEL's?

It's not air in the lines. The pump is at the source, so air in the lines only happens when you're starved of fuel at the pump pickup. Rectifying the starvation fills the lines back up.

I suspect you need a new fuel filter. Yours is probably partly clogged and the agitation from removing the line and stuff probably temporarily moved the clog.

Thanks Vikash, now that I think about it, that makes sense. Gonna pick up a new one.