Car stuttering and spitting

Question

I have a 94 Ford Taurus. It skips, stutters, spits. It calms down a lot after driving it some but i have been told two different stories. One said its the head leaking water into motor and one said it needs a tune up and has a hole in the exhaust making it where you hear the stutters in the front. It also has this problem when you make a turn without slowing way down first and press the gas in mid turn it jumps and jerks real quick. Any advice???

Answer 1

An exhaust leak shouldn't be difficult to pinpoint if there is one. This needs to be done regardless.

As expensive as gas is these days, a tune up is not a bad idea. If that fixes the problem fine.

If not, have the cooling system pressure tested. This will verify whether you have a leaking head gasket or not. Any well equiped garage should be able to do this for you. A head gasket replacement is not cheap, but it shouldn't cost more than 2 or 3 car payments :-0