please help me understand what the crap is going on? (wastegates) : Resolved!!!

[polskifacet]

Any special tools needed to remove the cowl to inspect the water logged exposed to air rain mud snow washer fluid pressure washers ECU?

*stupidest place for a ECU*

You need a wiper arm puller.

[TopherSho]

I just did the front three plugs.. pictures incoming .. but they are not good.   i will check the ecu .. but not before i do the back three.  there done.

[Colorado-SHOBro]

gap really spread out? i had a hunch


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[TopherSho]

Here are the front 3.   Top is left front cylinder, then middle is middle cylinder and bottom is right cylinder.

Note the hideous carbon baked into the insulator.  these plugs were running too cold.

I did not check the gap.  I will when i get home .. but with this thick of carbon i'm shocked it has not been misfiring bad enough to log it.

[Colorado-SHOBro]

any oil consumption issues?


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[TopherSho]

any oil consumption issues?


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-0-  holds the same OIL level on the stick for the entire time in the block.  it only has 51k miles on it.

[StealBlueSho]

Silly website but all of them(them being sites) agree when your plug is carbon fouled...

http://www.dummies.com/home-garden/car-repair/how-to-assess-trouble-by-checking-your-spark-plugs/


Carbon-fouled plug   Black, dry, fluffy soot on insulator tip and electrodes.   Overly rich fuel/air mixture, dirty air filter, too much
driving at low speeds, or idling for a long time.   Switch to "hotter" plug. (The higher the plug number,
the hotter the plug.)

[TopherSho]

Silly website but all of them(them being sites) agree when your plug is carbon fouled...

http://www.dummies.com/home-garden/car-repair/how-to-assess-trouble-by-checking-your-spark-plugs/


Carbon-fouled plug   Black, dry, fluffy soot on insulator tip and electrodes.   Overly rich fuel/air mixture, dirty air filter, too much
driving at low speeds, or idling for a long time.   Switch to "hotter" plug. (The higher the plug number,
the hotter the plug.)

im about 30 minutes away from doing the back three.  then a few test runs after driving around to adjust it. 

[StealBlueSho]

When is the last time you cleaned your air filter? Might be worth while to check if its clogged...

FYI: Once plugs are in... you should never need to adjust them.. Gap them right the first time...

[TopherSho]

When is the last time you cleaned your air filter? Might be worth while to check if its clogged...

FYI: Once plugs are in... you should never need to adjust them.. Gap them right the first time...

I took your route ,, i just made sure they were .30 factory and installed them!

No runs though,  i am single parenting atm ..

[Colorado-SHOBro]

so you just re-gapped your existing plugs? happen to measure them before you reduced the gap?


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[TopherSho]

so you just re-gapped your existing plugs? happen to measure them before you reduced the gap?


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sorry for the confusion i grabbed the new ones, made sure they were gapped correctly out of the box and installed them.

[Colorado-SHOBro]

crossing my fingers for an easy resolution then!


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[SHOdded]

x2!

[TopherSho]

unable to make a run of any significance.. but the accelerations and hard downshifts felt just like i remember them being pre-meth.  no jinxing .. more to test tomorrow.