Sdel179
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- Newcastle Australia
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- VY Berlina V6
Hi all,
Before someone grills me for all the similar posts to this, I don't know what to try next..
Firstly the car starts easy and idles fine when cold.. Never an issue to start it.. It's fine when you first start driving BUT once it warms up its seems to miss thud under load.. I have replaced all leads and plugs when I got the car a month ago.. It did it during the test drive and a local mechanic said the Ecotec is bullproof it will just be a plug or lead well WRONG.. It's done only 149,000 and I have now replaced the inlet manifold gaskets that seem to fail on everyone's ecotec.. Brown oil sludge under the radiator cap and sure once the gaskets where taken off it was bad..I have swapped coil packs and the DFI with a mates and it's made no difference what so ever.. The resistance on the injectors is mostly the same on all average at 200 ohm is 13.9 to 14.0.. They all fire (click screwdriver test to ear ) BUT I can't see why it would be an injector only when hot..I have looked everywhere all vacuum hoses appear to be connected.. There is no check engine light on.. My mate hooked it up to his laptop and when it started thudding away the timing was retarding greatly.. There was one back fire sound today I noticed whilst revving it.. But that's the first time I have heard it.. There is not coolant in the oil inside the motor.. The inlet gasket was pushing oil into the radiator..I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue any help welcome thanks
Before someone grills me for all the similar posts to this, I don't know what to try next..
Firstly the car starts easy and idles fine when cold.. Never an issue to start it.. It's fine when you first start driving BUT once it warms up its seems to miss thud under load.. I have replaced all leads and plugs when I got the car a month ago.. It did it during the test drive and a local mechanic said the Ecotec is bullproof it will just be a plug or lead well WRONG.. It's done only 149,000 and I have now replaced the inlet manifold gaskets that seem to fail on everyone's ecotec.. Brown oil sludge under the radiator cap and sure once the gaskets where taken off it was bad..I have swapped coil packs and the DFI with a mates and it's made no difference what so ever.. The resistance on the injectors is mostly the same on all average at 200 ohm is 13.9 to 14.0.. They all fire (click screwdriver test to ear ) BUT I can't see why it would be an injector only when hot..I have looked everywhere all vacuum hoses appear to be connected.. There is no check engine light on.. My mate hooked it up to his laptop and when it started thudding away the timing was retarding greatly.. There was one back fire sound today I noticed whilst revving it.. But that's the first time I have heard it.. There is not coolant in the oil inside the motor.. The inlet gasket was pushing oil into the radiator..I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue any help welcome thanks