Car suddenly running lean

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Old Nov 15, 2009 | 03:38 PM
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Default Car suddenly running lean

okay so i have a wideband in car and going to T1 wed. to get a tune but i have drove the car a little bit and afrs were lik3 12.5 at partial throttle and all of a sudden the jumped up to 14.5 ? so i havent driven the car since... looked over everything and everything looks fine? kinda confused on what is going on... i can richen it up in s300 but i dont understand why it changed... any ideas
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Old Nov 15, 2009 | 04:23 PM
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I just had a walbro 255 fail on me. Still pumped fuel but didn't maintain pressure, even when pinching off the return line. For me, AFR went from stoich to 16-17.
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Old Nov 15, 2009 | 04:53 PM
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A failed injector, a vacuum leak or wide band sensor failed causing bad readings.
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Old Nov 15, 2009 | 09:42 PM
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Something as simple as an exhaust leak can do that too, outside air gets sucked into the hole at low loads, tricking the o2 sensor it's lean.
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