Liquid_force
SHO Member
After work the other day I noticed it wasn't running like usual.
There was a miss at idle. Seemed to run a little better on the hwy.
Sounded a little louder from under the hood at idle as well.
I poked around and found yet another apparent error by my $1200 torque converter technician.
The tube from the air box to the throttle body wasn't installed correctly and the band had pinched the section at the bottom.
Ok, cool, easy fix. (the SES light never lit).
However - in the process I broke the tee fitting by the TB.
After 15 min of gd's and mf's I finally got all 3 of the broken barbed ends out of their respective air hoses. Stopped at advance for a replacement tee and got it all back together.
Good to go, right? No.
Still a miss. If anything it's worse. At 2.5-3k there's an obvious miss and vibration that wasn't apparent before I started the repair.
SES lights now. And during extended perioids of constant acceleration (up a hill for ~15 sec) the SES starts blinking. On flat road it doesn't blink but stays lit.
4 of my coils have about 45k on them. The other four may be original (138k).
On my way to get a code scan in the next few mins.
Another consideration -- the replacement tee fitting I found fits fine, but the internal diameter is noticeably smaller than the original fitting. Could that be effecting air flow enough to cause a constant miss?
There was a miss at idle. Seemed to run a little better on the hwy.
Sounded a little louder from under the hood at idle as well.
I poked around and found yet another apparent error by my $1200 torque converter technician.
The tube from the air box to the throttle body wasn't installed correctly and the band had pinched the section at the bottom.
Ok, cool, easy fix. (the SES light never lit).
However - in the process I broke the tee fitting by the TB.
After 15 min of gd's and mf's I finally got all 3 of the broken barbed ends out of their respective air hoses. Stopped at advance for a replacement tee and got it all back together.
Good to go, right? No.
Still a miss. If anything it's worse. At 2.5-3k there's an obvious miss and vibration that wasn't apparent before I started the repair.
SES lights now. And during extended perioids of constant acceleration (up a hill for ~15 sec) the SES starts blinking. On flat road it doesn't blink but stays lit.
4 of my coils have about 45k on them. The other four may be original (138k).
On my way to get a code scan in the next few mins.
Another consideration -- the replacement tee fitting I found fits fine, but the internal diameter is noticeably smaller than the original fitting. Could that be effecting air flow enough to cause a constant miss?
