Ok, got my driveshaft front & rear cv joints, and my center support bearing, replaced this week. I picked up the car yesterday, and it was running great!
On the way home, I decided to floor it a bit. I was doing a 3rd gear pull, and all of a sudden it felt like I hit a wall. I immediately clutched in, because my first thought was that something had gone wrong on the driveshaft. However, when I released the clutch, it still engages fine. However, if I true to accelerate at all, the car starts bucking real bad. If I get on the gas very, very lightly, the car will accelerate a little, and it seems as the rpms climb it gets just a hair smoother, but still can't increase the throttle at all without the car freaking out.
Here's another weird symptom. When I take the car out of gear, I lose my power steering. When I put it back into gear, I get my power steering back.
My only thought is that maybe I blew an intercooler pipe off? I'm not used to MAF cars, so I'm not sure how badly that would affect the car. My wife and I were going out to dinner right after getting the car home, so I haven't had a chance to inspect it yet.
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