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Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:32 pm
Thanks again guys, i did some reading about the wax filled device and how to adjust it based on its stoke at different temperatures and really hoped to not have to go there. I am glad to hear that you can blow air through yours, it makes me feel a little better about stuffing something through there, the fsm didn't really tell me what what to expect in there. At this point I'm still going over broken wires and corroded plugs and all the hard crispy bits that need attention. I though I'd pull it apart on friday night and put it all back together saturday, Here it is wensday and I think I'm done making a list of things to fix or pull off and use from my other motor before putting it back together. this is my third time under the plenum on this car and every time I want to go back even less than the time before. The knock sensors where so bad they had no housing at all on one and half on the other and the plugs were cracked right off from the sensors. It was definately time to do the valve covers as well,three spark plug holes were nearly full of oil! No wonder it hasn't been running very well.
If you can think of anything else that I should be sure to check out before putting this all back together it would really be appreciated, I've spent about enough money on this car this month but I definately don't want to go back in there for having overlooked something stupid.
Prior to taking it apart I had a bit of a miss but mostly erratic idle, it would bounce around a lot between 1000-1200 rpm and sometimes drop to 500 or so, sometimes so low I thought it would stall and then my brake pedal gets hard makes for a scary drive in town. The only code I got was for knock sensors, from what I understand, if there was more that one code it would flash them both alternately right?