I used A whole can, dump in style in the gas, and one whole spray 18 oz. can into the throttle body and it did nothing - not a puuff of smoke - no ease of tap sound - but my engine did seem to run tighter.
There is an easy way to remove that fan bolt without rental.
first spray some teflon lube or blast or something on the nut - let it soak
then put some duct tape around a pair of big vise grips and lock them to the bell housing. the belt must stay on. I even tightened the belt from the...
Here is a link to the Chevy Piston slap website that claims the noise is a maanufacturer defect in late 90s gm engines.
http://www.pistonslap.com/index.html
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Hello - here is a vid of the underside of the engine - sounds like its right in the middle bottom - really dark for some reason but there are no leaks
http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p105/eezzeee/?action=view¤t=100_0807.mp4
and here is the top again -...
The old oil came out thick and black - I did an oil/filter change 1 week ago - nothing in the oil - no metal - thick and nasty but no - lumps or anything hard. I will reshoot vid tomm.
If it is rod knock, I have full coverage ins. I guess I will run it into a tree ---
Thanks for all the help -
but I need a little more advice..
If by some chance the new fuel injector was numbered wrong or if I crossed the injectors would it run - what would it do??
I mean like when I installed the new injector - if by mistake I put 6 into 8 and 8 into six --- or 5 into...
Well - I tried the tranny fluid in the oil trick and it worked ok but did not rid the noise.
It is a lot better, but when I give it gas it taps.
All of the lifters and rods look like new - the comp. test now is 150 psi at all cylinders
and it runs and drives good. It just taps or knocks...
Thanks - I was told that tranny fuild might work but I was worried about the detergent .
I will give it a shot.
EzDAAR - I hope you were driving while textin that
Here is a picture and video of my 99 Chevy ***** 120000 mi
Click the link for the video - its louder on the vid than in real time
http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p105/eezzeee/?action=view¤t=100_0799.mp4
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Thank you so much for the advise -I am going to try the pull the plug wire trick, and I will shoot some video of the engine -
This one has got me - really all I did was replace the spider injector - it was not tapping before ,just runnin like chit. Now it runs great but sounds like a diesel...
I need some advice,
my tahoe drank some bad delaware gas and I havent serviced it in a while. It was running really rough and throwing codes. po300 - po 305 - po 172 - po175 - and oxygen sensor on cat. was bad.
I installed:
distributor cap and rotor -
new spark wire set -
new spark plugs...
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