If you think you are running lean stop running it! Last thing you need to do is burn down a piston.

 

Decided to start it today, hasn't be ran in a week or so. Doesn't want to start...... It'll fire, but only momentarily. So I took out the IAC (dirty as crap), gently cleaned it off but still no luck. I can get it to run by pumping the pedal a little then using the gas pedal to keep it alive. It doesn't want to idle at all.... As soon as you let off the gas (however lightly you have your foot on) it will die. My mechanic friend is coming to do the fuel sync tomorrow evening, so maybe he can diagnose some things for me.

 

What are your guys' suggestions here? I have the AFR gauge ( going in tonight or tomorrow) but the truck doesn't want to run properly. Should I do a recording of the AFR as it is to see if it's running too lean or rich? Or figure out what the idle problem is first?

 

Aaaaaand, I have a bad battery... And I couldn't get the positive cable off the battery within the 10 minutes I tried, so I'll leave that for tomorrow when there's more light out.

 

Bad battery will give you interesting problems. These trucks are REALLY (over)sensitive to electrical issues.

You don't have fuel sync set yet do you?

 

Nope, that's happening tomorrow night. Thinking I need to replace the battery connectors too, got some nice corrosion going on.

 

May be able to just clean them up. Baking soda, in water, and a wire brush. (rinse 'em off good though.)

Good battery, and fuel sync, see how it runs.

 

I finally broke down after having battery issue after battery Isue and got some high quality brass terminals. They were only like 15-20 bucks for both

So glad I did

 

Finally got a new battery, cleaned the IAC and it idles fine now. My mechanic has been swamped lately, so still waiting for that fuel sync... oh well. My Accord gets better mpg's anyway :/

 

Well, my mechanic is going to help me out tomorrow night with the fuel sync. So hopefully Wednesday or Thursday I can get my Wideband O2 in and send some specs to Sean at HemiFever. Found a guy that's parting out a 97 Ram 2500 and will be picking up a front Dana 60 Saturday morning. I'm getting excited now! Will be waiting until summer now to order gears and whatnot for the axles (70rear,60front).

I have friends that are big into crawling and offroading, so they will be making a custom long arm kit for the front, and I'll probably end up getting lifted leafs and a shackle flip for the rear depending how high of a total lift I go. Also looking into building a spare tire carrier like this... (hopefully this works, it's a .gif)