Jet Black ZHP Mod-A-Palooza

Sweet!

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Originally Posted by johnrando

Passenger air bag recall done. Next up is OFHG and Oil Pan Gasket.

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In for diy on opg.

You know me, I'm down with opp.

"No flamesuit required"

Oil pan gasket is not a terrible diy. Just need an engine brace up top to support it.

LOL Dane! I found some DIYs, if I do it, I'll let you know. I am going to do the OFHG alone first to see if that fixes it. If not, then the OPG - yeah you know me. :biggrin

BTW, thanks y'all.

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Originally Posted by Dave1027

Sounds good. Thanks for the update. Hopefully John's car shows what a properly working system should have. When I tested my car it had no vacuum at all. At least yours has a small amount. It probably will turn out that even with a new CCV there is only a very small amount of vacuum.

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Tested it on my new CCV today and it's roughly 2" Hg. Still very slight and much less than I would have guessed.

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Originally Posted by wsmeyer

Tested it on my new CCV today and it's roughly 2" Hg. Still very slight and much less than I would have guessed.

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Awesome! Thanks so much for following up. 2 inches of vacuum actually sounds like a good spec. Not too high to cause vacuum leaks at gaskets and seals but enough to make the low tension piston rings seal.

Now I know for sure my CCV is not operating correctly and is probably responsible the intermittent roughness on cold start. How is your cold start idle quality now that you have a new CCV?

This imo should be a sticky and be used as a simple method for checking CCV health. You simply connect a vacuum gauge to the dipstick tube, take a reading which should probably be between 1 and 2 inches vacuum.

Just to keep things up to date, changed out my expansion tank and air filter. And, happy upcoming birthday to Ness. 03/10/06.

Good stuff :)

John did you install that Tstat for the Trans located under the exp tank?

Finally replaced my OFHG (I've had it for more than a month), and changed my oil. Thanks to William for the help. Also worked on William's cars yesterday too.