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  1. Brandon Schnautz

    97 K1500 wont start sometimes, runs great when it starts

    If it's not even attempting to fire when you start it then it's most likely an ignition issue
  2. Brandon Schnautz

    97 K1500 wont start sometimes, runs great when it starts

    Pull the #2 plug out (because it's the easiest to get to) ground it to the exhaust manifold and have someone start it, you should have a nice hard to see skinny blue spark... if it's a fat yellow spark then you don't have enough angry pixies making it to the plug so trouble shoot from there...
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    Luke Warm Heat

    I'm going with this guy ^
  4. Brandon Schnautz

    '96+ Vortec 5.7L Timing Cover + Valve Cover Gasket Recommendations?

    AcDelco or Felpro are the picks of the litter for GM stuff *Also try rock auto for all you acdelco and felpro stuff, prices are usually the cheapest even with shipping but when I went through my l31 vortec I couldn't find and reputable brand name timing covers.
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    350 headers

    The heat shields they put on the manifolds dont help either lol
  6. Brandon Schnautz

    350 headers

    The spark plug thing might make headers worth it just in and of itself because the steering shaft on my truck couldn't be more in the freaking way of #3 if gm tried
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    Brief voltage drop when releasing gas

    Could be the voltage regulator in the alternator, also it's never a bad idea to clean your ground lugs and add a little dielectric grease before you tighten them back up.
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    Is it easier to put a 2002 ls out of a suburban into a 96 or 93?

    Motor mounts are very similar between those two trucks and the aftermarket is plentiful with adapter mounts and every other part to put an LS into an obs Chevy, either way you go you have to have (total guess here) a 4l80e transmission to work with the ecu on that Ls if it's the 5.3 that came in...
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    Starting issues

    The instrument cluster says 14 and this obd2 reader can get voltage 2 ways, from what the ecu reports and the actual obd2 adapter measuring the voltage at the port and for some reason the option to read from the ecu is unavailable so that voltage reading is what the $20 Amazon obd2 adapter is...
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    Starting issues

    Just went on a little test drive and heres the data I got.
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    Starting issues

    Once its running shes a tire killing machine and accelerates pretty well on the top end too and yes if you turn the rotor back and forth it does click but I've messed with the distributors in both my l31 vortec trucks quite a bit (manifold gaskets )and both have always had backlash like that.
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    Starting issues

    On a side not as usual I got bit by the plug doing this and it didn't hurt near as bad as it should so deffinantly a weak spark and it has a red top Optima battery and 1 year old acdelco cables and it will crank for about a minute and a half before you can hear the starter start to slow down and...
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    Starting issues

    The only clicking that motor does is the stupid check ball in the Pcv valve, it bounces up and down constantly but no other unsettling clicking or similar noises. This morning I grounded a spark plug on the exhaust manifold and had someone start the truck (wasn't starting well as normal) and it...
  14. Brandon Schnautz

    350 headers

    It didn't do anything to my vortec except burn up plug wires so I put the stock manifold back on, I'm still salty about that lmao
  15. Brandon Schnautz

    Starting issues

    It has a little backlash in the rotor, dist. Is a spectra that is 2 years old or so
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