| Dumb Things Old Guys Do [message #110433] |
Fri, 31 December 2010 21:41  |
George Beckman
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Here is a little New Year Diagnostic Quiz... The hints are below.
After installing my new aluminum intake manifold, I checked the water, checked for leaks. Test drove. Ran like a champ. I started for the Rose Parade... 260 miles.
Dumb thing one: I didn't double and tripple check everything under the hatch. (Maybe I need a Dick Paterson bread wrapper tie board to use as a check list.)
Dumb thing two: I have a throttle body with an EBL. I noticed I was getting 9 mpg on level ground. That was down one to two mpg.
Dumb thing three: I have two exhaust temperature gauges and one side of the engine was running as usual at 1100 degrees. The other side was running at 850.
Dumb thing four: I assumed it had something to do with the new intake manifold or my EBL. I assumed the temperature difference was because I had tweaked the gauge wiring while under the hatch.
Last hint: The problem was really simple. Simple simple simple.
I will try to follow the thread and see how the smart guys do.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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| Re: Dumb Things Old Guys Do [message #110434 is a reply to message #110433] |
Fri, 31 December 2010 21:51  |
rvanwin
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| George Beckman wrote on Fri, 31 December 2010 21:41 |
Here is a little New Year Diagnostic Quiz...
I will try to follow the thread and see how the smart guys do.
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I know the answer but, unfortunately, I was one of the old guys doing a dumb thing!
Randy & Margie
'77 Eleganza II '403'
Battlefield, MO
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| Re: Dumb Things Old Guys Do [message #110446 is a reply to message #110433] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 00:27 |
Ken Burton
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The side that was reading 1100 degrees EGT has at least one lean cylinder. Vacuum leak?
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: Dumb Things Old Guys Do [message #110458 is a reply to message #110457] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 07:35 |
George Beckman
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| wally wrote on Sat, 01 January 2011 05:29 |
| George Beckman wrote on Fri, 31 December 2010 21:41 |
Here is a little New Year Diagnostic Quiz... The hints are below.
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I will try to follow the thread and see how the smart guys do.
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I'm guessing a plug wire not on securely or swapped.
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Wally is on the money. Unfortunately it was not quite as simple as a wire off. #1 on my beautiful Paterson wires was no longer tied up to some no longer used vacuum hose and draped down onto my headers. Luckily Dick supplies real wire in hia kits, so my beautiful red wire now has a wad of black tape.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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| Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Things Old Guys Do [message #110462 is a reply to message #110458] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 07:51 |
Sandra Price
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Fun to try to solve the riddle. Enjoy the Rose Bowl. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Sandra and Bob
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:35 AM, George Beckman <gbeckman@pggp.com> wrote:
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> wally wrote on Sat, 01 January 2011 05:29
> > George Beckman wrote on Fri, 31 December 2010 21:41
> > > Here is a little New Year Diagnostic Quiz... The hints are below.
> > > .
> > >
> > > I will try to follow the thread and see how the smart guys do.
> >
> > I'm guessing a plug wire not on securely or swapped.
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> Wally is on the money. Unfortunately it was not quite as simple as a wire
> off. #1 on my beautiful Paterson wires was no longer tied up to some no
> longer used vacuum hose and draped down onto my headers. Luckily Dick
> supplies real wire in hia kits, so my beautiful red wire now has a wad of
> black tape.
>
> --
> '74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
> Best Wishes,
> George
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IN GOD WE TRUST!
Sandra and Bob in the 52nd Year of our State of Marriage
“Life’s a Trip” in “The Roadhouse”
’73 Painted Desert
Huntsville, TX
Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another, be sympathetic, love
as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or
insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so
that you may inherit a blessing. --1 Peter 3:8-9
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