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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 10:18 AM
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Can someone look on their truck and tell me where the ground strap goes that has one end on the back of drivers side head?
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 10:58 AM
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Just goes to the body somewhere. I think there is a handy stud sticking out of the firewall for it.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 11:02 AM
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Just goes to the body somewhere. I think there is a handy stud sticking out of the firewall for it.
I'll have to keep looking, nothing stood out to us the first go round. Might have to find a spot and drill a hole.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 05:13 PM
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Codes are now showing a cylinder 2 and 8 misfire. Fuel relay and trans related codes are gone.

Also now that my belt isnt squeaking, I feel like I can hear a vacuum leak but I can't tell for sure. I know if I pull the brake booster hose off at idle it has a strong vacuum but not sure if that means anything.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Sledder10
Codes are now showing a cylinder 2 and 8 misfire. Fuel relay and trans related codes are gone.

Also now that my belt isnt squeaking, I feel like I can hear a vacuum leak but I can't tell for sure. I know if I pull the brake booster hose off at idle it has a strong vacuum but not sure if that means anything.
Misfire will cause a shake and the ground goes to the following in the pic
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 07:13 PM
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Swapped the 5.2 pcm back in. It looked like it fixed it for a minute, but shortly reverted. Put the 5.9 pcm back and tried tweaking the distributor. Turned it half a turn (jk like a 1/4") clockwise, didn't start at all. Turned it back a fraction, started but struggled. A little bit more, seemed to start fine. Drove it, and I haven't noticed the jerking/bucking/whatever. Read codes, they no longer see the crank/cam code which doesn't make sense. I thought even if the issue was resolved, the code would still show until cleared?
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 07:16 PM
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The idle seems a little off too. I can't tell if it's the cam which isn't very big, or related to the fuel sync issue
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 08:11 PM
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The idle seems a little off too. I can't tell if it's the cam which isn't very big, or related to the fuel sync issue
The codes should be under stored codes not pending. Fuel sync I don't think controls the idle.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2019 | 10:06 PM
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Yea idk what the deal is. Drove it a little more and pretty sure the issue is gone, but I still want to fine tune it. Still seems underpowered considering I went from a wore out 318 to a cammed (admittedly small cam) 360.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2019 | 08:01 AM
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Probably need a better tune to go with that cam.

Which one did you install?
 
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