Ok so I finally got a chance to look at my truck today.
Many of you read my issue with the EFILive DVT's. So I replaced number THREE injector today and the knock went away and the engine ran perfectly smoothly. But it still smokes. Not half as much as before, but it still smokes.
So I think I have other injectors that are going bad too.
But where I totally screwed myself was when I replaced the #7 and #3 injectors.
When I first diagnosed it, I pulled the #7 injector out, swapped my Big Dipper tip over to a good/used LLY injector body. Put it back in, still knocked and smoked (obviously because I was messing with the wrong injector to begin with due to EFILive DVT's being wrong), so I thought "OK maybe its the tip itself thats bad". So I pulled it out and swapped another completely stock injector (stock tip) in....still knocked. Then I swapped the Big Dipper tip onto another injector, tried that, no change.
But heres where I screwed myself. I forgot which injector went where and which tip was on what injector. This was a couple weeks ago, and I dont remember what the last "swap" I did was when I was working on it while I was stuck up on Vermont. I dont remember which injector body and which tip is in #7. I have 2 other injector bodies that I was swapping tips around as well. I was working in a garage with no light, and no heat, in freezing temperatures, and already mad about how my truck is always breaking...so I wasnt careful and methodical/meticulous/organized like I always am when Im working on this stuff.
So basically I have three injectors sitting in front of me on the bench and I have no idea WTF one is the good one, which one is the bad one, which one has the stock tip and which one has the Big Dipper tips. Go ahead, laugh, I deserve it.
I would have thought "duh, this will be easy, just put a known stock injector in and watch balance rates." NOPE. Even with at least 1 stock injector (or maybe 2? Because #7 is the wild card) in, the balance rates are all perfect, +/- 1 or so. All of the balance rates now are fine and it idles smooth with no knock, like I said, but it still smokes, so Im going to swap a whole set of good used stock injectors in and hopefully the smoke will clear up.
BUT that still leaves me with 3 "unknown" injectors. Any ideas?
I really dont have an extra couple hundred bucks in my pocket right now just to send them out to be tested...
ben
Many of you read my issue with the EFILive DVT's. So I replaced number THREE injector today and the knock went away and the engine ran perfectly smoothly. But it still smokes. Not half as much as before, but it still smokes.
So I think I have other injectors that are going bad too.
But where I totally screwed myself was when I replaced the #7 and #3 injectors.
When I first diagnosed it, I pulled the #7 injector out, swapped my Big Dipper tip over to a good/used LLY injector body. Put it back in, still knocked and smoked (obviously because I was messing with the wrong injector to begin with due to EFILive DVT's being wrong), so I thought "OK maybe its the tip itself thats bad". So I pulled it out and swapped another completely stock injector (stock tip) in....still knocked. Then I swapped the Big Dipper tip onto another injector, tried that, no change.
But heres where I screwed myself. I forgot which injector went where and which tip was on what injector. This was a couple weeks ago, and I dont remember what the last "swap" I did was when I was working on it while I was stuck up on Vermont. I dont remember which injector body and which tip is in #7. I have 2 other injector bodies that I was swapping tips around as well. I was working in a garage with no light, and no heat, in freezing temperatures, and already mad about how my truck is always breaking...so I wasnt careful and methodical/meticulous/organized like I always am when Im working on this stuff.
So basically I have three injectors sitting in front of me on the bench and I have no idea WTF one is the good one, which one is the bad one, which one has the stock tip and which one has the Big Dipper tips. Go ahead, laugh, I deserve it.
I would have thought "duh, this will be easy, just put a known stock injector in and watch balance rates." NOPE. Even with at least 1 stock injector (or maybe 2? Because #7 is the wild card) in, the balance rates are all perfect, +/- 1 or so. All of the balance rates now are fine and it idles smooth with no knock, like I said, but it still smokes, so Im going to swap a whole set of good used stock injectors in and hopefully the smoke will clear up.
BUT that still leaves me with 3 "unknown" injectors. Any ideas?
I really dont have an extra couple hundred bucks in my pocket right now just to send them out to be tested...
ben
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