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HotWheelsBurban

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Between the whole family getting sick and bad weather haven't gotten any thing done.
Late Monday night and all day yesterday and today we've been super humid. The tahoe developed a crank no start this morning. Ran great monday afternoon on my way home from work. Haven't had a chance to look it over in depth.
Thinking it might be spark related as there's a lot of corrosion inside the distributor cap.
Judging by the looks of things, everything appears to be factory still..... ugh, (general maintenance wise). Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to check things out more in depth.
Kinda scratching my head...
Any and all advice is welcomed and appreciated.
Included a Pic of the engine bay for the heck of it.
A new cap and rotor would probably help; I've had great results with the United Motor Products rotor and vented cap from Rock Auto.
I have seen a bad cap and/or rotor keep a vehicle from firing after cranking it....
 

Munyon91

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A new cap and rotor would probably help; I've had great results with the United Motor Products rotor and vented cap from Rock Auto.
I have seen a bad cap and/or rotor keep a vehicle from firing after cranking it....
That is definitely on my list first and foremost, along with plugs and wires for piece of mind. In the past on my 80 fairmont and 2 2nd gen dodge trucks, and 98 durango I used United Motor Products with great success.
 

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Well just got outside before it started getting dark and swapped the cap and rotor with ones from my parts rig. Ran and kinda stumbled for about a minute then it stalled out. Cycled the key and cranked it, came right to life, ran rough for about 30 seconds then cleared up.
Still ordering the U.M.P tomorrow.
Did notice one of the caps screws felt like it was stripped out, got it tightened very gently for now. Will be looking at a new distributor as well. I've read about the billet distributors, kinda on the fence about it, what do yall think? Really don't like the idea of the plastic body ones.

kinda mad at myself for not getting an obs sooner in life, first time I've been able to fix something that easily in a long time.
 

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Well, got the title transferred and got hard plates put on today. Whoo hoo.

Got a order put in at rock auto for some stuff. Hoping to get some time this weekend to go harvest some more part off the parts rig to get my hvac working again. Possibly thinking about doing a dash swap and the one in it is cracked and broken pretty bad, giving me flash backs to my 2nd gen dodges. Ha
 

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After getting off work and hitting the car wash on the way home, loaded up most of the family and took our bi-weekly trip to wal mart and HEB. (40 miles one way)

So much more room with 5 of us and a load of groceries than my wife dodge journey.

I'm loving it, after spending so much on trying to have a "newer nicer" vehicles for the last 7 years, it feels great to have a "$2500" rig again. Even with the issues this Tahoe has, I feel I got a great deal at $2300.
 

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Did exceptional, could tell she wasn't running as best as she could.

Oil pressure stayed above 50 psi at high way speed and dropped just below 40 at hot idle

Temp showed around 130 on the dash, questionable so that will be addressed soon with the hvac stuff.
Gotta get the dang exhaust sorted soon. Not digging the straight piped life. Just screams, "I'm 17 and just got ahold of dad's sawzall.."
Just realized I never mentioned the mileage this ol girl has, 258,070
 
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