76ChevyTrucker

I'd definitely check the fuel pressure and do a compression test. Another thing, the Bosch plugs you have in there aren't the plugs for that car. If you do anything, I'd go buy a good set of NipponDenso, or NGK plugs and run in that thing. I've had too much bad luck with Bosch plugs in anything but an European import to run them in anything that I have ever serviced, or had to horror to drive. And the problem with the air intake hose being cracked wouldn't be a bogging problem, you'd have too much air coming into the engine, possibly leaning out the mixture and causing poor fuel economy. As far as the bogging, it sounds either like you've possibly got a bad fuel pressure regulator letting too much fuel go back to the tank and not keeping fuel pressure there at the injectors so that they can fire like they're supposed to. The regulator would be found on the fuel rail and have a vacuum line going to it. I'd check it out first and make sure that its capable of holding vacuum too, along with a compression test and a fuel pressure test.

You know, I haven't really trusted the French for anything, and I'm sorry, the Saudis aren't on my list of "people to trust" either, so I'm gonna call my bull$h! card on this one. And if he is dead, then good riddance to bad rubbish. Now if we can just catch the other peckerheads out there we'll be in business.

all right, if anyone wants to get me a physical address, or something, I can always pay them a Springfield Model 1926 .30-06 welcoming party.

All right, that's it. I've got a ballistic tip .30-06 round waiting for this ass...

Yeh, but even YOU have to admit that the alphanumeric of K5 DOES have a little warm spot in your heart (Hell, I know it does in mine, I would love to have my friend's 1985 K5 Blazer with its wonderfully fuel-injected 572 rat with 8-71 blower on top running on 33s). I wouldn't mind seeing the Blazer nameplate come back, I really wouldn't and have it be STRICTLY a two-door model, 4wd only, and V8-powered only. But we'll have to wait and see, I guess.

It looks really goofy in the pictures, but I'll reserve my REAL ragging and dislikes for when I see one in person.

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Well look at the rear of my truck (has 6 oval-shaped, what I call "boat trailer" lights in the roll pan). Imagine have all of them be LED, think that'd look good?

Hey Camino, I just thought of something. How about GM keep the Tahoe name for the four-door variant, then build a two-door variant and call it the K5....How's them apples for ya?

I'm a big fan of LEDs simply because they last longer and when one lighting element burns out you're still going to be casting a shadow back there because you don't have a "bulb" per-se. And be glad you haven't been thinking about LED's for as long as I have. I looked into getting the six (yes, I said 6) LED lights for the tail of my truck and they were roughly 100 a piece, but the price has come down nicely with time.

Here in Bama, we don't have emissions testing, which blew a friend of mine away that moved from Louisianna, which does have emissions testing.

I honestly wish that the Tahoe would have never entered production and the K5 would have remained. Because if we all think back to yester-year, then we know that the Tahoe was spawned from the K5 (and I personally don't like the Tahoe because it = short-wheel-base Suburban, and what's the point of that?).

The main reason you'd get a vibration with a cracked flexplate is because, just like the driveshaft, crankshaft, and more or less every other shaft on the ride is weighted to make it balanced. Toss a crack in there and you throw all the balance off. I haven't heard of this problem yet, and I know I'm just a lowly parts guy, but I figure that I would have heard about it by now.

I could have sworn that the 2.2 DOHC engine in the Cobalt has VVT, I'll have to research it some more, I guess.

I'd only rave about anything more than five or six speeds in a big rig, you're everyday grocery getter and back-and-forth to work getter doesn't need that many damn gears. If you're travelling, and out on the open road all the time, then yes, I could see a reason for it, but most people who are going to buy these things (Lexus, Caddy, ect) ARE NOT people who will be travelling a whole lot by car. That's my only gripe. Sure more gears is great when you're slogging down some back country road with 110,000-lbs of supplies being pulled by your trusty Detriot 60-Series strapped into a Frieghtliner, Peterbuilt, Kenworth, ect, but not your everyday car.

EcoTech 2.2 VVT in my Wife's '05 Cobalt doesn't make the noise, and the 2.4 and 2.2 are the same family of engines. Maybe its just one of those fluke-type things that you hear about every now and again. Like a friend of mine who thought he needed a motor mount for his Taurus, when all he needed was the bolt that secured the motor mount to the engine (the mount still looked like brand new, just missing on bolt). Its just one of those weird fluke things that isn't SUPPOSED to happen, but it does.

plaid

I believe its the same style gasket on ALL the 3.8L Series II engines. The Series III in the 04 Monte should be basically the same, lower-intake manifold wise. Now the plenum gaskset (upper intake manifold) will be different, just like the Supercharged engines have different plenum gasksets, due to mounting hte S/C

Actualy, GM uses AC Delco, Ford uses Motorcraft, but they're all, in lthe long run, made by the Prestolite Company, so in a general sense, yes they run the same plug wires, just they stamp a different name on the product when it rolls off the assembly line.

I'd say go for it. Sure you may have few, minor, flukey things go with it, but overall, its a reliable and sturdy car. I haven't seen any problems with ones I've worked on (oil changes, brakes, nothing interior engine related), and they're all still on the road today, so I can't complain in the least about them.

But other than that.... Nash Rambler

*sighs tiredly* Why oh why do we need 8 bloody speeds on the family grocery getter? We are not trying to harness the massive amounts of torque and horsepower that a Detriot 60-series, or a Cat 3206 has, and we damn sure aren't trying to haul 100,000-lbs of timber, or any other suitable product out from a muddy road... Five gear ratios is plenty for 9 outta 10 driven situations, unless you have a car that has NO torque, then you'll need all those gears to even feel like you're accomplishing anything. I guess that's what this means, GM is going to stop building engines that have a lot of torque and go with the high-revving, pissed-off-weedeater-sounding engines that have to be revved to 9,850-rpm just to begin feeling torque....

Stallion

I work out pretty regularly here at home, nothing too strenous since I know i'm going to be running my ass off at work hustling parts all day. Normaly about 120-180 sit ups, 30-50 push ups, about 100 jumping jacks, then a ton of stretching and that's about it. All the cardio stuff I get running over five miles of interior building space at my job.

thanks, we're naming her after our sister-in-law who was killed back in march during a car accident, and after one of my wife's cousins who was also killed. Kinda honoring them both, you know?