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Well I killed my starter when I power washed the engine a week or so ago. Checked all no crank items, and pretty much was sure it was a dead starter, well suspicions confirmed, just clicks.
Jumped right into plenum removal, it's a tad bit intimidating, now if I can get it back together.....
Went a head and pulled the injectors and cleaned with apcarb cleaner and blew the out. Bought new "O" rings and plenum gaskets from Jerrys Gaskets. The secondary injectors were completely clogged.
NOS starter will be here Wednesday, spent most of the afternoon trying to clean up the valley under the plenum it was scary how filthy it was.
Got everything back together tonight, fired right up!!!
Still have a vacuum leak, but runs tons better, cleaned all of the injectors actually got to get it out on the highway tonight, runs much better at higher RPM's and getting a few backfires. Hopefully driving it a little will clear it up a little.
I'm a little less intimidated by the LT5 now....just a little
Good job! Now that you have gotten to the bottom once its likely you won't be back anytime soon given the parts you replaced. I hope you opened up the drainage hole a little bit under the starter...
its an easy mod and helps by not plugging up as easily.
I would make sure to replace the injectors or send them out to be professionally cleaned.
When I send the car up to DRM he will replace the injectors when we do the DRM 500 work along with long tube headers and coil overs. Also thinking I'm going to have the cam covers and intake powder coated bright red, I think it will look amazing with the Admiral blue and red grand sport themed interior.
08-08-2016, 01:13 PM
