BJS
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I noticed that my pyro was reading lower than normal. I would cool down to 200° After idling up the driveway to park. This struck me as ood so I went driving and couldn't manage to get the pyro up to 1000 even with a hot chip & stock injectors, I've hit 1300+ with them so I knew something was wrong. I came back home and started "testing" even running 3000RPM in park the pryo wouldn't go above 325° So with an IR thermometer I compared the manifold to what I was getting on the pyro. They were reasonably close. I pulled out the propane torch and heated the pyro probe up and the guage showed the increase and could be pegged but the response was rather sluggish. The pyro and probe are still under warranty so I called the vendor (GOS racing) described the problem and he said well I'll send you a new pyro and probe figure out which is the problem and I'll issue a call tag for the leftover good pieces.
The new pieces showed up today and with any combo of the new pieces and old pieces with the truck in park I still can't get the pyro to go over 325° So I've got a problem.
Since I bought the truck I've had a lope at idle when I start the truck but it goes away after a couple seconds. In the timespan I've been testing the truck to figure this out I have developed a miss that isn't really noticeable at idle but shows w/ great hood vibrations @ 1500. I've pulled out the IR thermometer again and tested the temps on the manifold next to the different cylinders. The front cyl on the driver's side (side w/ probe) is 15° cooler than the coolest of the rest of the cylinders on that side. Testing the passenger's side there is no difference (2-3°) between any of the cylinders. So I pulled the valve covers off figuring that when I replaced the VC gaskets and some of the UVC harnesses & GPs I didn't get that injector cliped back good but it's connected and squirting oil. I've started disconnecting individual injectors and can't hear a noticable difference between one and the other being disconnected at idle or up to 1500 RPM.
So any suggestions for soloutions to the problem for diagnosis of what I'm going to guess is an injector that is failing and not delivering the full fuel load to that cylinder. And unfortunately upgrading injectors isn't really in the wallet right now other wise I'd be all over that.
Thanks
Brandon
The new pieces showed up today and with any combo of the new pieces and old pieces with the truck in park I still can't get the pyro to go over 325° So I've got a problem.
Since I bought the truck I've had a lope at idle when I start the truck but it goes away after a couple seconds. In the timespan I've been testing the truck to figure this out I have developed a miss that isn't really noticeable at idle but shows w/ great hood vibrations @ 1500. I've pulled out the IR thermometer again and tested the temps on the manifold next to the different cylinders. The front cyl on the driver's side (side w/ probe) is 15° cooler than the coolest of the rest of the cylinders on that side. Testing the passenger's side there is no difference (2-3°) between any of the cylinders. So I pulled the valve covers off figuring that when I replaced the VC gaskets and some of the UVC harnesses & GPs I didn't get that injector cliped back good but it's connected and squirting oil. I've started disconnecting individual injectors and can't hear a noticable difference between one and the other being disconnected at idle or up to 1500 RPM.
So any suggestions for soloutions to the problem for diagnosis of what I'm going to guess is an injector that is failing and not delivering the full fuel load to that cylinder. And unfortunately upgrading injectors isn't really in the wallet right now other wise I'd be all over that.
Thanks
Brandon