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| biggrizzly | DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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OH my God!! It actually happened. Over a year and a half and the Vette finally took me all the way to work.
No problems except a funky burnt rubber smell from something on the exhaust system. :banana21:  Water Temp averaged around 175, never went over 180 though. Not sure if that is good or not. I had Bryan reprogram the fans to come on earlier and I put a brand new radiator and ac condensor in it, so it should have lots of air flow. Oil temp around 190 It still seems to idle a pinch low at traffic lights, but that might just be the nature of the beast. I adjusted the TPS voltage yesterday after installing the correct Knock Sensors, and it seems to be running just great. Now I hope the transmission will hang in there. |
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Posted on: 2008/9/29 11:42
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| jsup | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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NICE!!!
Sounds great. Hey, what are you doing on the 11th? Toys for Tots run? I hear they close the GSP and let us run.. |
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Posted on: 2008/9/29 12:26
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| CSS996 | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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Congrats, Don!
Hopefully this is just the start of many carefree miles!  |
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Posted on: 2008/9/29 14:10
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| Matatk | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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Congrats! Enjoy it while the weather lasts.
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Posted on: 2008/9/29 22:41
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| biggrizzly | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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 Its in the garage right now with the valve covers off. On my way home it started to develop and noise from the engine which I thought could be the start of the belt tensioner going bad, as I knew the original one was marginal. However as I got closer to the 30 miles back home, when I would slow down to stop at lights and signs it would idle down very low and run very rough almost like it was missing. I got it back home and opened the hood to listen again, and it sounds like something is loose under the right bank valve cover. I pulled the VCs and everything seems snug but I'm going to do another valve adjustment and hope I didn't lose a lifter. |
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Posted on: 2008/9/29 23:29
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| PeteK | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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If it is a roller cam, you may have had a rocker stud loosen up.
Look very closely at the valve springs. Possible one broke. At first glance, they never look broken. |
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Posted on: 2008/9/29 23:49
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| biggrizzly | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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Well, I re-adjusted all the rockers. I pulled them off and inspected. Looked for any signs of bad geometry or broken springs, but found nothing out of the ordinary.
I'll put it all back together tomorow night and start it back up and run another scan just to see if the TPS jumped away on me or something like that. I just set that damn thing last night and it was perfect. |
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Posted on: 2008/9/30 1:09
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| PeteK | Re: DROVE THE VETTE TO WORK TODAY!!!! | ||
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I would let it idle for a couple of seconds with the v/c off, to be sure you solved it. If you did not, the problem will be visible immediately.
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Posted on: 2008/9/30 1:15
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