CEL has'nt come on in 3 days! YAY!!!

[Hardwareman]

Don't want to jump the gun yet again but the CEL has'nt come on in about three days now and I've put about 500-600 miles on her since the last time I erased the DTC's.

All I did was swap plug wires from cylinder #1 to cylinder #2 to see if the code would follow, but since I did that there has'nt been a CEL yet.

There was a bunch of crossed wires though and I made sure to uncross them and put them in the plug wire holders (forgot the name) properly. It actually seems like cylinder #2 wires was made for cylinder #1 as far as the length goes. It was a little stretched before.

There's still a little pop out of the exhaust when decellerating in gear, like going down a hill. I think that's because my cat's hollowed out though. The misfiring only happens once or twice a day now too and it's usually when I first start up the Ranger in the morning and romp on it then let off.

I'm thinking 02 sensor's next.




Allen

 

[Mark_88]

Cool...guess your just about done with that...I was going to suggest changing that #1 plug wire when you mentioned you got zapped by grabbing it...I've never gotten a shock from doing that so I suspected something was amiss...and I always use those wire separators...they not only look better but they keep the interference down...

 

[Bryan22]

Awsome man! seems like you had nothing but problems there for a while, glad to hear someone got everything straightened out. with that exhaust poping on decel. you might try tightening the exhaust at the header and see if that cures it, i know on my 4 stroke dirt bikes they pop like crazy if you've got a bad seal at the header.

 

[Hardwareman]

Just wanted to let everyone know that the CEL remains off!

Every so often I will get a misfire and it's still slightly there at idle but all in all the Ranger's running like a top.

I started thinking though, when I originally installed this engine and put it all together I only had the lower intake plenum installed and I sprayed the hell out of it with carb cleaner. So much carb cleaner in fact that when I started her up it was like a "SEAFOAM" treatment. It was smoking horribly for like 5 minutes or more!

Could I have fouled or partially fouled a plug by doing this? Even a new plug? Maybe it's as simple as that you know?




Allen

 

[Hardwareman]

CEL still off guys!





Allen