LT's=problems ever since
08-08-2006, 11:17 PM
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i sure as hell hope it wouldnt be like that. no one has messed with my intake. im pretty sure that part of the motor has been left untouched. seems awfully weird that all these problems except the oil thing happened after the headers. could this be caused by messed up front o2's? maybe the heat from the welder got them? or the fact that they were only about 8 inches from natural air when they were open header? 
i wonder how much all this is going to cost me...
i wonder how much all this is going to cost me...
08-08-2006, 11:24 PM
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hm, at this point i just want to know what is wrong with it. its like being super sick and the doctors can only say "hm this is awful but we have NO idea..." charlie, i guess we wil l just have to see what the deal is and what your laptop says. at this point im pretty glad that i was planning on getting tuned this week.
08-09-2006, 01:13 AM
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it could actually be a bad connection because when iw as removing the plug wires, the metal thing inside the boot that connected the plug tip to the wire came off on 3 of them and a tried to push this metal piece back into the boot and it never went in all the way back to normal so 3 cylinders could be getting a bad spark. tomorrow morning im going to replace the taylors with my stock ones and hopefully that helps. maybe ill have a new set of 10.4's on the way out. i dunno why they just came apart like that though. i used the sylicone elec. connector stuff. maybe not enough o well ill check hopefully that will be the good easy fix for my problems.
08-09-2006, 02:22 AM
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update, i replaced my effed up taylor wires with the stock ones and the truck runs a whole lot better. drove it about medium throttle and it didnt feel like it was going to pop or back fire whereas before it felt like that with very light throttle. i revved it to 3500 in neutral and it was fine. i mashed the gas and once it down shifted and the rpms jumped it went "puhp pop pop"(lack of back pressure??) i immediatly let off the throttle so i dunno if a back fire keeps on popping if i kept on the gas or if the fumes would combust that one time and then everythign would just flow out like normal BUT it wasnt nearly as bad as it was before. i didnt get a chance to drive it all the way until lock up but hopefully most of the problem was fixed due to the plug wires and now there are just minor tuning and afr issue to deal with. if you have a back fire issue, how do you fix it? if it back fires when you first mash the gas, will it only happen at that moment or will it keep back firing until you let off? i guess what im tryign to say is if i floored it, it popped once, woudl it be safe to keep on the gas WOT?
08-09-2006, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Soon2bSpooled
1. under medium to heavy throttle there are back fires 
Originally Posted by Soon2bSpooled
2. when the torque converter locks up at low MPH i.e. 40-55 there is violent jerks and vibration and a little vibration 60+ be it all only locked up acceleration
Originally Posted by Soon2bSpooled
3. my "check engine oil" light just came on and the oil level wasnt even touching the "operating temperature" part of the stick so i dumped 3qts in there. this is from every few starts there is a great pploomb(sp?) of blue/grey smoke form the xhaust i think its the valve seals... weird though only happen upon ignition and doesnt smoke when driving
Originally Posted by Soon2bSpooled
4. i was in a quite a bit of traffic and ALL my temps started to climb, with the a/c on 1 and the efans on high, just stopped and idling in traffic my trans temp climbed and pegged out right at 250 and my coolant levels jumped up to 240.
Originally Posted by Soon2bSpooled
5. at idle, when temperatures are high or something, my SES light starts to blink but it turns off once i start moving more than like 20mph so i dunno WTF is up with that but im putting a 30000GVW trans cooler on order now
Originally Posted by Soon2bSpooled
6.and finally im pretty sure my carrier bearing is quitting on me now so im definitly putting some 2*shims on the beast