Cascading failures and no time to deal with them.
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From: League City, Texas
Cascading failures and no time to deal with them.
So I had to farm out some repair work as I have been WAY too busy with work to work on my own stuff. Good thing I got extra hours cause I need the money!
Anyway. Truck has been a little rough, but no codes except for the P0012, which I thought might have been low pressure getting to the head due to sludge crap, so I have been watching pretty carefully, and running Marvel Mystery Oil to break up the nastiness...
Well I went off on travel for a while, came back and tried driving the truck, saying it ran gobs of awful is an understatement...
Codes were showing multiple COP faults, and misfires on cylinders that weren't flagging COP faults, and, well it just SOUNDED constipated...
I took her in to the shop, and they verified my suspicions, my cats are clogged, 2 COPs were dead, and the plugs were beyond gone...
$475.00 later, the COPs are swapped, and plugs changed out, running better, but still constipated. Taking her in to an exhaust guy that is a family friend that is going to hook me up with some affordable cats until I can get the scratch to do the cats and exhaust I want...
The truck is paid for long ago, other debt is going away fast, so with any luck before too long, I should be doing the exhaust, but not until after the coils finally get swapped, and whatever the heck that noise in the front end is gets fixed...
So my plan for the next I would say 6 months is...
#1. Fix cat plugged issue.
#2. Isolate and repair whatever the heck that noise in the front end is.
#3. Replace leaking / scratched up headlights.
#4. Finish the now late 100K service by flush / filling the cooling system, brakes, and power steering.
#5. Finish installing trailer wiring harness, and LED auxiliary backup light system.
#6. Swap out entire exhaust for Magnaflow high flow cats, 2.5" x 2.5" x 3" Y pipe, and a full 3" magnaflow SISO rig exiting in the stock location.
Anyway. Truck has been a little rough, but no codes except for the P0012, which I thought might have been low pressure getting to the head due to sludge crap, so I have been watching pretty carefully, and running Marvel Mystery Oil to break up the nastiness...
Well I went off on travel for a while, came back and tried driving the truck, saying it ran gobs of awful is an understatement...
Codes were showing multiple COP faults, and misfires on cylinders that weren't flagging COP faults, and, well it just SOUNDED constipated...
I took her in to the shop, and they verified my suspicions, my cats are clogged, 2 COPs were dead, and the plugs were beyond gone...
$475.00 later, the COPs are swapped, and plugs changed out, running better, but still constipated. Taking her in to an exhaust guy that is a family friend that is going to hook me up with some affordable cats until I can get the scratch to do the cats and exhaust I want...
The truck is paid for long ago, other debt is going away fast, so with any luck before too long, I should be doing the exhaust, but not until after the coils finally get swapped, and whatever the heck that noise in the front end is gets fixed...
So my plan for the next I would say 6 months is...
#1. Fix cat plugged issue.
#2. Isolate and repair whatever the heck that noise in the front end is.
#3. Replace leaking / scratched up headlights.
#4. Finish the now late 100K service by flush / filling the cooling system, brakes, and power steering.
#5. Finish installing trailer wiring harness, and LED auxiliary backup light system.
#6. Swap out entire exhaust for Magnaflow high flow cats, 2.5" x 2.5" x 3" Y pipe, and a full 3" magnaflow SISO rig exiting in the stock location.
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Yeah, gotta do it. Ticks me off to no end. Been running full synthetics since day 1 with this truck, oil changes WAY before recommended intervals blah blah blah.... Still getting crap up by the VCT solenoids... However won't know for sure since the bushings are back on the valve covers...
The shop I took it to road tested it, and with the computer cleared, ONLY throws the 0012 code on hard acceleration, which makes sense if it is bogged by clogged cats...
Not able to get in to get the cats bypassed today, but that's okay enough.... I have Magnaflow direct fit cats on their way from Summit, and will be able to swap them in net Saturday...
With it tuned back up, and new, non clogged cats installed, it should run pretty well... If I had a clue how to capture the stuff and what to do with it afterwards, I would do the cooling system flush & fill today...
The shop I took it to road tested it, and with the computer cleared, ONLY throws the 0012 code on hard acceleration, which makes sense if it is bogged by clogged cats...
Not able to get in to get the cats bypassed today, but that's okay enough.... I have Magnaflow direct fit cats on their way from Summit, and will be able to swap them in net Saturday...
With it tuned back up, and new, non clogged cats installed, it should run pretty well... If I had a clue how to capture the stuff and what to do with it afterwards, I would do the cooling system flush & fill today...