Engine dies when put into gear.

[Brown-Boy]

So I just fixed my fusible link issue and now when I put the vehicle in gear it dies. It will start up fine and idle without a problem. I put the car in gear and I have to just keep giving it gas otherwise it will die. I'm not too sure what would be the cause of this. Any suggestions???

[stefan]

make sure your VAF sensor is plugged in!

[miami man]

stefan is right if it is fuel injected. i swapped a vaf meter once and idled rough and almost died so i pulled over and the vaf plug was loose...i felt dumb because i was in a rush plus inspect the hose from the vaf meter to the throttle body for cracks

[Brown-Boy]

I will check it out.

[Brown-Boy]

I don't know what it is but it starts up and goes into gear fine. All I did was check for any type of vaccum leak of electrical problem and found nothing. I don't know what it is. Maybe something just needed to be reset when I did the fusible links.

[packrat427]

You may have stumbled onto a connection problem ,and really did not know which one it was .

If you fix too many things at once , sometimes you don't know which one fixed it .
I always try to do 1 thing at a time , then check it , then move to the next thing.

[Brown-Boy]

That's what I was doing. I've done that before, work on more than one thing at a time. Not a good idea. lol Oh well it works now.