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Oof! dont feel bad my friend. I did almost the exact same before.so i did the transfer case yesterday, filled it with fluid today. had someone else start it and just by pure chance it made the noise during start up with me standing next to it sounds like a backfire but after, like out the exhaust instead of through intake. today i noticed it has a bit of a stumble if i softly accelerate and then if i pull out quickly it does it. so maybe i have a weak coil or something? kind of explains why it sounds like its in the back end. i have dual exhausts straight out the back. whats weird though, if it put it in park and rev it, i get no noise just light stumble. only under load it pops. i cant remember if i put new plugs in the motor during the swap. im sure i did, i ended up going through 3 sets of plug wires because they kept burning off the exhaust. i bought high temp plug wires and fiberglass sleeves for it and its been fine. they look ok so i wouldnt think plugs or wires. sadly, my spotter said this from the beginning while i was backing up. since she was a bad spotter while backing up the boat, being sidetracked by the butterfly in her flowers, i didnt believe her lol. specially since it doesnt sound like a backfire.
Awesome! the plug wires on these are a pain.sorry for the delay. just finished up with work. poppet injectors were replaced with the upgraded ones couple years ago and then i LS swapped it so im running a 5.3L now. so turned out the 4wd actuator wasnt plugged in because the wire was shredded. i fixed that. the transfer case did not fix the problem. the actual problem was the spark plugs. 1 was cracked. i swapped them and it runs like a champ again. 2 of my plug boots melted a little bit. thanks for all the great suggestions and help.
Sorry to kinda hijack this threadDoes a '96 HAVE a thermal actuator? My '88 does, my '97 doesn't.