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Old 10-30-2006, 05:12 PM
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I would start looking at...
  • Possible loose ground wires at the engine block (does not take much a voltage drop to confuse any ECU) would just take any grounding wires and clean under them and re-secure all on the engine block. Matter of fact, you drop below 10.5 volts and many ECU's drop into a limp home mode with no timing advance curves and these engines start to run very poor.
  • Clean and re-secure all battery connections.
  • If you have a A/B battery switch, make sure all connections to the back of the switch are secure and use locking washers to help prevent them from getting loose again.
  • Engine charging system output at the higher RPM's.
  • Spark plug wires breaking down under stress or arching past the plug boots to the block. 10 ohms or higher resistance on any plug wire is asking for problems.
  • Fuel injector leads clean and secure.
  • Ignition switch wires all nice and tight and no vague spots (hard to explain) when moving the key from the start to the run positions.
  • "Very Carefully and in very small amounts" spray some throttle body cleaner while the engine is running and warm and see if you can find a vacuum leak in a manifold or vacuum line. The engine will increase either increase in speed or stumble pending on the size and type of the leak. What you are looking for is a "change" in engine RPM (up or down) from it's normal idle speed.
I am sure others will cook up some other places to look to go
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