FOR MICKEE AND ALL OTHER 3.0 OWNERS WHO HAVE A STALLING PROBLEM: take the rubber air hose that goes into the throttle body from the air cleaner, off, get a can of throttle body cleaner, make sure the car is running, and blast the shit out of it, keep spraying and revving and spray some more, and more, and then put it back together and test drive, make sure to open it up a little to clean it out. It works! My Claimy used to stall at every stop light, AND going down hills with the foot off the gas! ALL THE TIME! Now, in the past 11 months of driving it it has only stalled maybe 3 or 4 times and it was all just after I cleaned it out. I guess the theory behind it is that a smog port? gets clogged up with gasoline vapors? and causes someting or other and the 3.0 stalls out. NOW WE FIXED THE CHRONIC STALLING PROBLEM WITH OUR MOTORS AND I GIVE PERMISSION FOR EVERYONE TO TRY IT, SEE IF IT WORKS, AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT!

THERE IS A HUGE UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE ON 1/1/06!

Give me a few days to do this. I have school...

Here is a little info. It is a Black Cherry 1991 Plymouth Acclaim LX, built in January 1991 in Newark, Delaware. It was sold and driven in Southern PA (Bryn Mawr) for 8.5 years, has only seen 3 NY winters, 3 specs of rust on the body, one of those is unnatural due to a 440cc snowmobile motor slammed in the trunk which also deformed the spare tire cover. It has 162103 miles showing but the speed sensor went so it has more than 185000 (297665 km) UPDATE, the speedometer was replaced and now shows true miles. I have had it since March 2003, my parents had it since October 2001 and my uncle bought it in 1999. It has been in the family for 6 years. It has never been totalled or flooded. The paint is not peeling and has only one small dent that was not my fault. It is a great little Mopar sedan and has no trouble reaching 125 mph. This car has the 3.0 v6 and the Ultradrive 4 speed automatic transmission. The transmission has only been rebuilt once, at around 84000 miles. Right now the car needs a water pump because it cracked and is leaking, but the car still does not overheat. Every engine sensor has been replaced at one time, that was to find that the Throttle Position Sensor was going which caused the transmission to race the motor hard if made to 4-3 downshift, it would 4-2 downshift! That was the only problem with the car. I had to put a fuel pump in over summer 2004 because the reurn line rusted out and was getting approximately 10 mpg the day I parked it, the pump was $130 at Victory Chrysler Dodge Jeep in Camden, New York and was not very hard to get to. This car is a great car. All of my friends that see it say that they don't like it because it is Purple but once they ride in it, they begin to say that it is nice and they like it and defend it to others the fact that it is purple but is a sweet ride. It has good power, gets 30 mpg at 70 mph with the ice-cold AC on when the speedometer worked. This car has been great to me, and it rips a sweet rubber patch. I have only done that a few times because I know the transmission that's in it!

My car has the LX Touring suspension, the Light Package, Power windows, locks, heated mirrors, and 6-way driver seat, rear defrost, 60/40 rear seatback, remote trunk release, trip computer and message center cruise control, full guage package, and cassette player. It also has a full size spare tire and tools, the 15 inch aluminum rims, luggage rack, LX-model-specific fascias and fog lamps. The car is loaded.

The only options that this model is missing is the 4 wheel ABS disc brakes (nice), sunroof, or overhead console with compass, outside temp guage, garage door opener, and sunglass holder.

I actually had some moron offer $300 for it and added the line "I'll tow it today." Yeah sure let me get the title, ass. Then I actually had some other idiot justify that the 300 was what the car was worth. There was no sale sign on it, mind you.

In the end of December I bought a "smarter decision" parts car for $100. It is a white 1991 Plymouth Acclaim LX with the same red interior as my Black Cherry Acclaim except this one is built in Toluca, Mexico. This car had paint peeling off of it everywhere and not just rust but ROT HOLES! It being a New York bought and driven car. I was lucky, the day I towed that home, I had to tow it, tell you why soon, I did not shut the Spirit's hood and while going 65 down the road, no snow on the road, the hood flew up and smashed through the windshield! When I got out of the car and peeled the hood down, I started laughing hysterically! So my sister and I were driving the 1.25 miles home going 30 mph. The next morning I went outside to shut the hood. It would have been easy but it pulled 2.5 inches to the right, so my first part off the white Acclaim, a white, paint-peeling hood.

I had to tow the white Acclaim home because the timing belt is slipped so bad that the car will not start but does make an attempt and gets a bit of compression and makes a sputter noise. It has 180054 miles on it. It has been my experience that tells me that Acclaims and any other Chrysler last 180000 miles before they become expensive. But if you think like me, once you get past a certain point, it will be all good because of the tons of new parts on it for example, I have a friend with a 1984 Dodge Omni with a 2.2, and get this, 384000 miles on it! No lie, I could take a picture of her Odometer to prove it. It still runs strong, just has peeling blue paint and rust. I advise everyone who likes Chryslers to open a savings account after buying an old timer and keep fixing it. Think about it once you hit a certain amount of miles, practically everything will be brand new!

UPDATE: On July 9, 2005 at 181836 miles, the ACCLAIM shit the bed! I was on my way to Victory to have the water pump replaced, and the car started blowing oil smoke out the back and I turned Weezer down and the car was ticking hard and I let off the gas and the car stalled and that was the end of the Acclaim. Blown head gaskets and warped heads signalled the end of the chapter named LX.
...But after the second attempt of repair, the Acclaim is up and banging again, a champ prowling on unexpecting drivers of Corsicas and Tauruses alike.

UPDATE: In the beginning of July, the Heads went on the LX and a day before that, the check engine light came on which has never came on since the TPS went in 1999. I did a "when you're down there" and replaced a huge list of items on the car, a list that totals near $2000 in parts! The weekend the heads were done, me and a friend tapped the exhaust valve guides back to where they are supposed to be, they were real bad on cylinders 5 and 6, next to the exhaust crossover, engineering mistake??!! The heads were never milled, big mistake, so the car still ran like shit and ran very hot. So I didn't drive it, then 3 weeks later, repair attempt #2 came along but not with the original motor, I bought another Acclaim, a teal 1993 with 119000 miles on it and a confirmed original motor a complete car with no title for $125. The gas lines, tank, and pump were so rotted the car wouldn't start. So we sprayed starter fluid into the air cleaner and after 2 full years never being started it started right up and did not even make a lifter tick! Great find. So now the shit happened and LX has a newer motor, a 1993 block and heads with the rings on the valve guides so they don't drop down. We had to switch the rear exhaust manifolds because I wanted to keep my intake manifold, plenum, and fuel rail, because the (93s or 92?) and up have an (EGR?) port. The only 1993 components in my car are the oil pan, block, pistons, rods, crank, and heads. I might want to switch the oil pans though and buy a new oil pump at that time becuse that 93 pan has the drain plug near the back corner on the very bottom and that doesn't work for me because I like the 91 pan with a much larger plug conveniently placed in the front of the pan with a plug that is easily removed and you don't have to tighten the shit out of it to feel confident that it is plugged, it's a 1991 thing! And at the time, the front end had quite a number of bad parts and wasted tires so here is a list of brand new parts the LX has had since April 2005, take a breath, get a drink, take a bathroom break first, its a big list and remember I am young, dumb, and have a lot of disposable income!! Here it is :

Water Pump $32
Timing Belt $35
Serpentine Belt $29
Alternator $135
Fuel Pump, not because it stopped working, it rotted out $130
Muffler, didn't really need it but I get pulled over for everything! $77
"Left Side" (but really the front) Motor Mount Bracket $57
Motor Mount Insulator $24
Bosch Platinum plugs $15
Autolite 8mm wires $28
Cap $12
Rotor $5
Thermostat $3
Upper Radiator Hose $16
Lower Radiator Hose $22
Rad. Cap $5
Heater Core, wasn't a bitch, went through firewall $24
Gaskets from intake manifold up first bought a head set for $111 but wasted it as motor was still fucked but the int. man. gaskets were $33
Front Rotors and Wearever Gold pads $70
Both Driveshafts $80 each
Both Ball Joints $33 each
Both Tie Rod Ends $17 each
Both Strut Dampers $ 40 ea., Spring Seats $27 ea., and Mounts/Bearings $30 ea.
Outer Stabilizer Bar Bushings $13
Both Front Wheel Bearings $94 ea.
All Rear Wheel Bearings $40 all together
Both Brake Drums and Wearever Gold Shoes $25ea. + $40
Rear Shocks $13 ea. (big sale) real big sale
Driver Rear Lug stud $1.05
Fresh Valvoline High Mileage 10W 30 oil x2 for 2 repairs
Fresh 50/50 Antifreeze x2 for 2 repairs
Fresh Transmission Filter and ATF+3 Fluid
Fresh Steering Fluid.
Plus all of the greases, fluids, penetrating oils, some tools, and anything else you can think of with a motor half ass strip down and swap!
That is a huge list but it worth it to me as I LOVE this car, not like, but LOVE I WILL NEVER GET RID OF THIS CAR! Right now this list is at $1533 but lets not forget the $125 for the 1993 Acclaim, the $300 I paid one friend for help and the $100 I paid another for help. so the grand total is $2058 for the near total revival of the LX!

Now all it needs or wants is:
Four Wheel Alignment $60
New Tires
Serpentine Belt Tensioner $79 (ever heard someone sharpening knives at 3000 rpm?) yeah, bad.
Window Clips $13 for 4
Firm feel steering rack $78 (inner tie rods slightly loose)
Air conditioning recharge kit was $36
Miscellaneous greasing of latches and hinges
new rear bumper cover
rust stopping undercoating
mildly tinted windows
Fresh Paint Job, thinking BMW Jet Black
New Exhaust system such as Dynomax or take it to a place in town for cat-back dual exhaust!! *SWEET ON AN ACCLAIM*
A Chrysler factory AM/FM/CD player when the started them in Acclaims in 1993.
Then I will be thoroughly satisfied with this car and never buy new!

NEW UPDATE, THE LX CROSSED 190000 MILES ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 23, 2005, AND THE NEXT DAY THE TRANSMISSON WENT!! Needless to say, I have a good A604 in the white LX and will be putting it in the purple one because it is a MOPAR Remanufactured unit, not rebuilt but BRAND NEW!! The LX is sitting another winter:( but who would drive such a nice unrusty car in the road salt? Not I.

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Page 3 Interior LX
Page 4 Parts Pile 1-SPIRIT
Page 5 Parts Pile 2-white LX
Page 6 LX
Page 7 Competition
Page 8 Cars I have owned
Page 9 Future Rides
Page 10 The Grand Prix
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