Prages
03-09-2009, 10:31 PM
So, I made about $90 at my gig on Saturday.
My truck has had a misfire for a while, and when I had the code read, it said misfire on 5 and 6 and bank 2 was lean. The truck has about 120k miles on it. I last replaced the plugs and wires about 60k ago, and truth be told, it's had an occasional misfire ever since. I think I got a bad plug. The fuel filter has never been changed, since I didn't have the inline 'quick connect' tool.
So, with my $90 of gig money, I bought some plugs, wires, a fuel filter, and air filter, and the quick connect tool. It came out to about $92 all together.
I really am still a little sick, so I feined sickness and left work at about 3:00. Stopped and bought the parts, then went home and got to work. I was finished up by 5:00.
Everything went without a hitch except that since the truck was parked at a slight incline, as soon as I disconnected the fuel line, about a cup of gas poured into my face and shoulder. After I got the fuel filter changed out, I replaced one plug and wire at a time until I had gotten all six. Then changed the air filter.
Took the truck for a test drive. The light is still on, but I'm pretty sure I've read that it takes something like 10 startups without a problem before the code will reset. The truck seems to have a bit more power, and no miss that I can tell. I did about 20 miles both on back roads and hilly interstate (the missfire was most predominant on hills on the interstate). I didn't feel it miss once. I think I'm good to go.
I poured some injector cleaner in the tank and filled it with gas. Hopefully it'll also improve my fuel economy (I was only getting about 18 mpg before. If I can get 20, I'll be impressed).
So anyway, that's my car story for the day.
One of these days I'll take the truck to my buddy's garage and try to get the exhaust pipe tightened up. When I replaced the clutch, I had to loosen the pipe at the back of the header (to get the transmission out) and couldn't get it tightened all the way up when I put it back together. It's not a bad leak, but you can definitely hear a little leak at the back of the header. I think between his tools and knowhow (and his acetyline torch) we can get it clamped tight again.
BTW, why can't they come up with a way to make firing order make sense
My truck is a V6. It has one of the square type distributer/ignition coils.
Here's the layout of the cylinders
1 4
2 5
3 6
And here's the layout of the distributor
1 6
2 4
3 5
Why would they do that? :mad:
My truck has had a misfire for a while, and when I had the code read, it said misfire on 5 and 6 and bank 2 was lean. The truck has about 120k miles on it. I last replaced the plugs and wires about 60k ago, and truth be told, it's had an occasional misfire ever since. I think I got a bad plug. The fuel filter has never been changed, since I didn't have the inline 'quick connect' tool.
So, with my $90 of gig money, I bought some plugs, wires, a fuel filter, and air filter, and the quick connect tool. It came out to about $92 all together.
I really am still a little sick, so I feined sickness and left work at about 3:00. Stopped and bought the parts, then went home and got to work. I was finished up by 5:00.
Everything went without a hitch except that since the truck was parked at a slight incline, as soon as I disconnected the fuel line, about a cup of gas poured into my face and shoulder. After I got the fuel filter changed out, I replaced one plug and wire at a time until I had gotten all six. Then changed the air filter.
Took the truck for a test drive. The light is still on, but I'm pretty sure I've read that it takes something like 10 startups without a problem before the code will reset. The truck seems to have a bit more power, and no miss that I can tell. I did about 20 miles both on back roads and hilly interstate (the missfire was most predominant on hills on the interstate). I didn't feel it miss once. I think I'm good to go.
I poured some injector cleaner in the tank and filled it with gas. Hopefully it'll also improve my fuel economy (I was only getting about 18 mpg before. If I can get 20, I'll be impressed).
So anyway, that's my car story for the day.
One of these days I'll take the truck to my buddy's garage and try to get the exhaust pipe tightened up. When I replaced the clutch, I had to loosen the pipe at the back of the header (to get the transmission out) and couldn't get it tightened all the way up when I put it back together. It's not a bad leak, but you can definitely hear a little leak at the back of the header. I think between his tools and knowhow (and his acetyline torch) we can get it clamped tight again.
BTW, why can't they come up with a way to make firing order make sense
My truck is a V6. It has one of the square type distributer/ignition coils.
Here's the layout of the cylinders
1 4
2 5
3 6
And here's the layout of the distributor
1 6
2 4
3 5
Why would they do that? :mad: