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Old 11-04-2011, 11:07 AM
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could a new hpop expose some weak injectors that didn't seem weak when running with the old hpop? Just put in the new hpop, and now that I got the initial problem found, she runs, but runs rough. Kind of like I need to switch tanks... once it is wrapped up, it runs smooth, but at idle, and just off idle, she sounds like she is about to die. If I take off from a stop, without giving her some pedal, she dies. The amount of pedal is less when I turn up my chip, and high idle is smooth as glass. Any ideas?
 
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:09 PM
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I think I'd spend money on a scanner before I spent money throwing parts at it... Does unplugging the ICP sensor at idle change anything?
 
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:36 PM
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the roughness didnt exist before installing the new hpop? any smoke at idle?
 
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Old 11-04-2011, 02:01 PM
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Check for codes, ICP, and IPR and also check the injector wiring harness for the valve covers. They can get brittle and break and then you start having running issues.
 
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Old 11-05-2011, 12:02 PM
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I just find it odd that the only real parts change of significance was the hpop. does anyone know the voltages that should be being sent back from the icp?

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upon further discovery, it is somewhere in the uvch on the pass. side front. I guess next step is to pull the valve cover and see if I can isolate it to one injector or the gasket, or the harness connector, or the harness itself...

BTW, it died when I unplugged the icp sensor.

I think that is what is wrong with my other psd too... even though I already replaced the uvch's once already.
 

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Old 11-17-2011, 10:59 PM
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turned out that I had a smashed connector in the plug that plugs into the outside of the valve cover gasket. the wire that sends a return signal back from the injectors to the idm... pulled the terminal out of the plug, re-expanded it, and what do you know, she purrs like a stray cat
 




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