Bobolink

careful.....you can get in a heap o' hurt pokin' yer noggin' where it don't belong.

BTW, in the brief three views of the harmonic balancer in his vid, it looks to be turnin' pretty smooth. No wobble or anything.....

Firestorm500

Google doesn't know what noggin pokin is. Therefore it doesn't exist in the known universe outside of Arizona.

Which everyone knows is in the southwestern US, not the south. Heck, Arizona doesn't even observe DST.

Except for the Navajo nation, which does.

matt0106

Ok, so I'm gonna replace my distributor cap, rotor, and plug wires.

Wires:http://m.napaonline.com/parts/PartsD...404_0065774258

Rotor:http://m.oreillyauto.com/mt/www.orei...0413&ppt=C0334

Cap:http://m.oreillyauto.com/mt/www.orei...0413&ppt=C0334

Are those good options?

cruiser54

I'm the one who invented the term!!

I Googled it after I suggested you do so, and all that came up were MY posts. LOL.

But our governer wagged her finger in Obama's face............

Firestorm500

Good for her.

There needs to be more finger waggin' in Washington.

Bobolink

Oh yeah! Would that more governors would follow her lead!!


I'd like to poke his noggin


(am I in trouble now?)

matt0106

So guys, I got to thinking, could my coil be bad? The spark coming from my wires is tiny and it's not "blue and snappy," like someone else mentioned.

matt0106

Ok. So I went and got my battery checked, just so I could rule it out, it wasn't it.
Tested the spark coming from the coil, it's not "blue and snappy," it's "sluggish and yellow."
Cleaned up the contacts on the coil and ICM, didn't change anything.

Oh, forgot to mention, it starts but won't run for more than a minute.

matt0106

I'm going to test the coil and ICM to see if they're good or not. Then I think, the fuel pressure regulator and vacuum lines are next to be checked.

All that sound good to ANYONE on the forum?

matt0106

Anyone else have any input?

southsidecatac

Looks like the forum overlords hijacked your post to have a personal conversation. That's probably why no one is offering any advice. Try to start a new thread on the subject and they will wail on you for it. Try a different forum.

matt0106

Yeah, unfortunately I have, I posted it on xjtalk too. Got more help there than here. Got ideas of what to check without being griped at.

67 GMC

Please don't take my post as being rude but I think you're missing the point of this forum. People want to see what you have done to fix the problem. Many of your posts are "What should I check" and "I haven't done that yet" or "I might do this" or "I'm gonna replace my distributor cap". What do you want people to reply to that type of post?


There are literally hundreds of posts on this forum that you can search and find people who have reported similar problems to what you have. When I have a problem, I search through the posts where people have reported a similar problem and see what they did and then I DO WHAT THEY DID and report back to the forum.


You need to be systematic and rule out the obvious. If you go through Cruiser's tips first, that will rule out the more basic issues like TPS, CPS, sensors, grounds etc. Then people will get more into putting out suggestions.


Please don't criticize posters either. Everyone is on here to help-No one is getting paid for advice. Try asking a mechanic what he thinks is wrong and he'll tell you to bring it in the shop and charge you $75/hr to "noggin poke"!


Good luck.

cruiser54

Well stated and true^^.

matt0106

Someone could reply back to this and be like, "Oh, yeah, that sounds good. Here's how you can check it...."

Also, I have "noggin poked" to check stuff, none of the stuff I did changed a damn thing.