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    Distributor problem am lost

    My best guess from over here is that the spring loaded conductive carbon button that goes between the cap-mounted coil & the spinning rotor underneath is MIA, and this missing component would lead to this kind of high-voltage carnage: Note: The large cap HEI system is the unofficial Honey...
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    P0303 Misfire only under load

    + **** Greetings SableSlayer, Looks like both @Jacobchevys & @98yuk haven't been in here for awhile, so although my comments pertain to all 3 forum members, I am going to focus on your situation, since you are currently active. **** The SBC in our GMT400s can falter in one of 2 ways. The...
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    My 1991 RCLB C1500 Silverado

    From up here in the rust belt that looks to be a super clean beauty of a RCLB. Take good care of your first truck, for you will be making memories that will last a lifetime. And you may not realize it yet, but there are a lot of people who will walk by all manner of new trucks in order to get a...
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    Teal daily driven farm truck.

    I'm old enough that we used to rebuild Master Cylinders as the default, and only swapped them out when the original unit was beyond repair. Anyway, I just wanted to share that your last sentence is spot on. Back in the day we would have a vehicle with a firm pedal, but noisy wear squealers...
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    Teal daily driven farm truck.

    ...and there's the last piece of the puzzle for yours truly. My bad for not reading for comprehension. With all new braided stainless, everything fully adjusted, and a fresh, correct master I would expect a really good pedal? I'm looking forward to what you figure out. This is a head scratcher.
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    Teal daily driven farm truck.

    I agree with GrimsterGMC's diagnosis. Given this, there's a real good chance that the seals in the master cylinder are on their last legs, and the poor pedal feel is due to internal leaking between the 2 circuits in the master. Based on my own GMT400 ('99 C2500 w/JD7) it *is* possible to have...
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    Wiring issues

    No worries, no rush. We all realize that life happens and that we're all fitting this in whenever a free moment allows us to do so. I know I've got deadlines looming having to do with an upcoming move, so I'm going to be a bit spotty in here myself. But the good news is that there are...
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    Wiring issues

    Hello again MYF, We have yet to touch on this, but I decided to take quick look and see if we couldn't use your test results to help illustrate how to troubleshoot an issue like this using the wiring diagrams in the FSM. **** First of all, I decided that with my luck using a '99 manual to...
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    Wiring issues

    Greetings MYF, A saying that I happen to agree with is that you don't fail until you quit. I know what it's like to have a project get bad stuck, and you start to get the feeling that this is going to become a failure that will color how you feel about your ability to keep something rolling...
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    305 Is a Turd Correct?

    Back in the day I used to read articles where because of the difficulty in getting a stick-equipped vehicle past emissions (compounded by the low percentage of overall sales) there was a time where supposedly no stickshift vehicles would be offered at all. We tend to forget that back then it...
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    New guy from Ohio

    My take is you now own a RCLB chore truck with a very fair price of admission. Even if you only get 4 or 5 more years of use out of it you will still end up with a much better 'price per use' number than if you were starting with a new $50-$70K full size truck that will last longer. Not to...
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    Hooked up battery backwards

    GTG, I just pulled this Caution out of the '89 Service, Driveability, & Emissions manual: If the key was on when the battery was connected backwards odds are the computer is smoked. Even if the key was OFF, there is still 'Hot At All Times' power on a separate pin that's used to to keep the...
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    1998 no load stumble

    Knowing that a *light* touch of the brakes while cruising (ie: just enough to activate the brake lights, but not enough to create drag) will disconnect the TCC, it would be a easy ad-hoc test to gently left foot the brake pedal while right foot on the accelerator, take the TCC out of circuit...
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    305 Is a Turd Correct?

    EDIT: Reply collision with #13. We're in violent agreement, so I'm leaving it in here. :0) **** Having said all of the above in reply #10, I would take all the lessons learned in that video and apply that to a 383. In heavy vehicles like the GMT400s, the most affordable path to an improved...
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    Hooked up battery backwards

    Check ALL the fuses. Keep track of (as in written notes) which of the fuses were blown. After replacing those fuses, these are the circuits that should receive the closest scrutiny. (ie: verifying at the end of those circuits that power has been restored.) By the way, here are a few...
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