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Old 01-11-2010, 01:08 AM
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Well the past 2 nights we have been trying to start my truck. Last night it didn't even attempt to fire. I checked my plug wire routing and double checked that all my sensors were plugged it. We have fuel and spark but it still won't fire up. We thought maybe we put the dizzy in 180 off so tonight I spun it around. That ended up causing flames to shoot out of my tb lol. So we put it back the way it was before. I had the SCT tune on it but put it back to stock to see if maybe the tune was off. We got it to at least try to start but still won't fire up. Any ideas? I'm gonna PM hemifever and let him know whats up to see if he has any ideas as to why it didn't even try with the tune installed.


I must say with no exhaust after the cat it sounds like my truck is under water. When it does start it's gonna be loud
 
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you should hear it with open headers....i ran mine open manifolds when i deleted the cat

fired it up just for the hell of it, scared the living **** outta me, didn't expect it to sound that loud
 
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Are you getting fuel? You need air, fuel and fire......
 
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Well the past 2 nights we have been trying to start my truck. Last night it didn't even attempt to fire. I checked my plug wire routing and double checked that all my sensors were plugged it. We have fuel and spark but it still won't fire up. We thought maybe we put the dizzy in 180 off so tonight I spun it around. That ended up causing flames to shoot out of my tb lol. So we put it back the way it was before. I had the SCT tune on it but put it back to stock to see if maybe the tune was off. We got it to at least try to start but still won't fire up. Any ideas? I'm gonna PM hemifever and let him know whats up to see if he has any ideas as to why it didn't even try with the tune installed.


I must say with no exhaust after the cat it sounds like my truck is under water. When it does start it's gonna be loud

Sorry Chris had to be a slight smartass

Maroon when I installed my headers one didn't seat right and I fired it up. Plus they came loose a couple times so I know how loud it can be
 
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Old 01-11-2010, 01:24 AM
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oh and when I was checking for spark which # 2 is getting a hell of a spark fire shot out of the plug hole so we got fire too lol
 
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Why you son of a *$&%#

I missed that part.

Still remember the triangle though.
 
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still sound like your timing is off
 
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Yeah thats what we were all thinking. We all hope the guy that put it together did his part right. My bro in law was like "yeah I'm sure its our fault" lol. I'm gonna check to TDC again tomorrow maybe
 
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double check all of the wiring and make sure everything is plugged in. It is easy to overlook something especially in the back of the engine
 
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You need to reset the fuel sync also, with a scan tool capable of doing so.
 


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