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V8 Engine Swap
Solid Axle Swap
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Little update to this... I have finally replaced the EGR valve and EGR position sensor. Really no change, and yes, I have been driving around with it like this for quite a while. I have a new TPS on the shelf as well and it appears that the Walker 200-1018 part is the correct one for this truck, although it's supposed to fit the Merkur and other similar vehicles and not this one.
I also hooked up a scanner to it and found codes 31 and 53 present at KOEO, the latter of which is somewhat puzzling because I did adjust the TPS to what I thought was a correct idle voltage but maybe I did something wrong.
More frustrating is a new issue where at idle, the truck will sputter, recover, and repeat at random - maybe once a month or once a day, sometimes it sputters hard enough to kill the engine. It happens so infrequently that I can't nail it down easily, maybe throwing parts at the other issue will fix it.
I would have liked to do more troubleshooting on this sooner but house remodeling, race truck build and a 4.0 swap took priority I guess.
I also hooked up a scanner to it and found codes 31 and 53 present at KOEO, the latter of which is somewhat puzzling because I did adjust the TPS to what I thought was a correct idle voltage but maybe I did something wrong.
More frustrating is a new issue where at idle, the truck will sputter, recover, and repeat at random - maybe once a month or once a day, sometimes it sputters hard enough to kill the engine. It happens so infrequently that I can't nail it down easily, maybe throwing parts at the other issue will fix it.
I would have liked to do more troubleshooting on this sooner but house remodeling, race truck build and a 4.0 swap took priority I guess.
