car on fritz again...eh

Have you ever performed a leakdown or compression test?

mustangmat99 said:

no i havent, but i found the problem, my intake piping came off the of throttle body, the clamp loosened and it was sucking in to much air, tightened it up, started it, gased it, burned all the oil out, cars fine now...but no i havent, i have the tester to do it and someone who knows how, i jsut havent had the compression tested yet

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Well, I'm glad your fix was relatively painless. Now lets keep her on the road for awhile.

ehh, sometimes it seems that way and so far I've been super lucky. When we got done with the install, we started her up before the chip went in (i got impatient) and not 3 seconds after it started up smoke started bellowing out of the engine. Scared the dog crap out of me, then my father and I proceeded to run out of the garage b/c neither one of us could breath from the smoke. At first I assumed it was where we snipped the egr tube off that it got so hot it was smoking either my plug wires or some other hose or tube or the like. I figured this was merely a sign of things to come and I momentarily considered taking the mofo off right there. Then, after doing some looking we realized it was nothing more than the refrigerant that we had to purge from the lines that had sprayed all over the engine. Apparently it had gotten down near the headers and was burning off real quick. Point is, like your TB hose thing, problems are gonna come up, its inevitable. The trick is to not write off a project or a certain setup or what have you just b/c of a couple of mishaps. It'll work out for ya...and for now you have Mr. Murphy to thank for all the trouble thus far.