99 tahoe issue

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Asanford

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Right side plugs are nasty, left side clean. engine starts fine, but needs to sit for a couple of minutes before driving or it is very sluggish. Any ideas?
 

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if your talking coated with black nasty stuff or you pulled the plugs and the electrodes are nasty. 2 separate issues and one is alot worse. next are you talking all around sluggish or just a bad take off from a stop. lastly simplest think alot of people leave out have you had the codes pulled yet. just because the check engine light isnt on doesn't mean you dont have codes.
 
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if your talking coated with black nasty stuff or you pulled the plugs and the electrodes are nasty. 2 separate issues and one is alot worse. next are you talking all around sluggish or just a bad take off from a stop. lastly simplest think alot of people leave out have you had the codes pulled yet. just because the check engine light isnt on doesn't mean you dont have codes.
 

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It is the plugs, black and a bit wet!!!

Your coolant temperature sensor might be bad or loose / broken connection at the connector.

You will want to get a scan tool that reads coolant temperature or have a diagnostics shop perform the work.
 
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Your coolant temperature sensor might be bad or loose / broken connection at the connector.

You will want to get a scan tool that reads coolant temperature or have a diagnostics shop perform the work.

You can hook a multimeter up to it if you unplug from the firewall area and use the red on the 1 wire and black to a ground and use mV I think.
It does some voodoo and transmits the voltage to the gauges. No ECM or mechanical functions, that’s near the thermostat. It sits next to a spark plug on the driver side and is a $15 part.
 

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