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Topic: salt and pepper shackers...now runs like crap
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6D9
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OK...cars was running perfect except a hunting idle when its cold. Did some reading and found that the salt/pepper shackers seemed to be a major culprit. So I undid the white plug only and took a look at it. All looked fine and decided to just put it back together. Fired the car back up and I noticed that it had a vibration at idle now. Took it for a drive and it runs but like crap. Way down on power and has a vibration when getting into the throttle. What the hell could have happened? I took it back apart a few times to make sure its snapped together tight and it is tight. I did nothing else to the car whatsoever....
Im frickn pissed cause the car has always run great and I should have just left the damn thing alone. Any help would be great..Thanks
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Performance Alliance Motorsports
1969 BBC Camaro
Posts: 171 | From: stockton,ca | Registered: Aug 2006
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I also just realized that I forgot to disconnect the battery before pulled the plug apart. Just read the instrutions and it says to disconnect the battery. Could this have caused the problem?? If so whats the fix? Thanks guys.
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Performance Alliance Motorsports
1969 BBC Camaro
Posts: 171 | From: stockton,ca | Registered: Aug 2006
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Clean ALL of the dielectric grease out of all 4 connectors. Take a needle and spread every male pin out a little bit. Put new Dielectric grease in the connectors and reconnect it and see what happens.
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RidaPony
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Did you try disconnecting the battery and leave it disconnected for a while to clear the PCM's memory?
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make sure ur grounds are good especially the one by the battery and coming out of the drivers side wire harness it has a fuse that goes bad that i like to cut off and ground straight. As far as sat n pepper thats weird maybe u disconnected another sensor check them all.....egr, map, throttle position, idle air, vacume leaks listen, pvc could have come out ect.
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Doing that wouldn't give your car a vibration.
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Crazy thing is car has always run great. Did this only after disconnecting the white plug. I disconnected the neg to battery last night. Going to go get some electric parts cleaner spray and dialectric grease. Then reinstall the battery ground. I did not touch another thing on the car so I dont see how anything else could be the issue. Keeping fingers crossed it does the trick.
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Performance Alliance Motorsports
1969 BBC Camaro
Posts: 171 | From: stockton,ca | Registered: Aug 2006
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Contacts cleaned and new dielectric grease in plug. Still the same. Car idles great but still same prior issues....
If you disconnect the salt/pepper plugs without disconnecting the battery what can happen? Does the computer get "confused". Other than that I cant think what else the problem is with it. I did nothing else but unhook and rehook up the plug.
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Performance Alliance Motorsports
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Posts: 171 | From: stockton,ca | Registered: Aug 2006
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Maybe pinched a vacuum line? Or possibly burned a plug wire? Just throwing those out there ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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Infineon/Sears point? same difference!
11.8 @ 115 mph @ Sac Raceway
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I have disconnected both salt/pepper shakers on my 92 5.0 without disconnecting the battery first and had no issues.
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Infineon/Sears point? same difference!
11.8 @ 115 mph @ Sac Raceway
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dvuspny
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Yeah maybe in that area. ....You could have pulled enough to where the pcv valve can lift out of the rubber grommet. The majority customers grommet is in very poor condition, hard as a rock and loose fit for the pcv valve anyways.
there is a upper engine harness ground that i see broken or poor connections on in that same location.....
Look for simple possibabilities first. You will find it!
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You can also disconnect the both of the battery cables.......hold the two ends together for roughly 20seconds. This will safely drain any and all residual power entirely. After you can start. Run and drive the car for 15-20miles and the computer will re~learn; so to speak.
*** make sure to dis~connect any stereo capacitor if you have one ***
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