CJ_978 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Looking to but a stock hood for my ss, selling my truck but want to keep my cowl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouch252 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 What?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la122685 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Now y u gonna do that rb? U been talking to grandpa rb to much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_978 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Story behind it all is, my motor is junk, and I strongly believe it Is tune related... I had zippy do a retune for me, to tune in my headers, servo and cat delete.. I received the tune back and put it in right away, and my truck was running rich, I told zippy about it, and then a few weeks went by, and I started to notice that my truck was burning oil and smoke would blow out of the exhaust when I got on it. Then I was taking it easy with the truck and had another guy look at it who does live tunes to figure out why it's running rich and stuff then a couple weeks later I go to do an oil change and notice my oil filter, the paint on the filter was all spider cracked, so that made me thing oil was getting to hot, and I pulled plug and the magnet on the plug looked like it had an Afro.. So I wiped it off, drained it, kept sticking plug in and out and wiping very very fine clumps metal specs off the plug, well I put new oil in and filter then cut old filter open and it looked like metallic gray paint in there. So I changed the oil a week later and same thing bunch of metal on the plug.. There is no knocking or anything, so I'm thinking it's my piston rings and it's chewing up my cylinders. Here's some pics of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissfans03ss Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Cj did the truck log any codes? I know Zippy is very good at what he does and I don't remember ever hearing of a rich motor causing this problem, I could see your cats melting due to the truck running rich. I am not saying that either party is wrong just that I haven't seen it my self maybe some else will chime in and educate me. Either way I am real sorry about your situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_978 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Thanks Jim, that's the only thing I can think of, because it was running beautiful before I had the retune, and I when I did the cat delete I sent the tune in right away and didn't run the truck without the new tune in it.. I don't know which direction to look or what, but ever since I received the tune back I've had nothing but problems, yes more people chiming in would be great And no codes have been thrown besides a loose gascap code Edited July 21, 2014 by CJ_978 (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldofashow Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Chris just curious who did the live tune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_978 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 I didn't have a live tune done I had a guy look at the tune when we went for a test run to log what it was doing.. And this guy rob from the south shore he's on PT.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldofashow Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 If you can try slowhawk performance in bridgewater all he works on is Ls motors he maybe able to help you out a lot better. I would hate to see you get rid of it if there was something that could be done to fix it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_978 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 There is no fixing metal shavings and I can't afford to Do a complete rebuild or a new motor and I still owe $ on the truck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissfans03ss Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Yeah metal shavings are not a good sign, I hope it all works out for you Cj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_978 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Thanks Jim, but trading it in seems to make most sence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldofashow Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Chris is refinancing the truck to get the motor fixed not an option I know you still like the truck I'd hate to see it go you put some nice work into it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_978 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Thanks man, but I already refinanced about 6 months ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissfans03ss Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Chris is refinancing the truck to get the motor fixed not an option I know you still like the truck I'd hate to see it go you put some nice work into itIt sounds like he is financing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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