My buddy has a '98 S10 2wd with the 4.3L.
In December I helped him give it a general tune up as it's 100k+ miles. Was reliable but had a little stumble/miss every now and then. We did plugs, oil and filter, airfilter, and plug wires but he forgot to get the distributor cap and rotor. Put everything on and it ran much better and he said the miss/stumble/whatever was gone.
Few weeks later he gets the rotor and cap and puts them on himself. Immediately he says the miss is back. Keeps reporting it's worse. He's kind of wondering if he had damaged a plug wire because he said he had to kinda reef on them a bit to get them off the dizzy.
Lately he's been saying it's even worse and was getting worried. Last night he drove a few miles to get his son, turned it off, came out a few minutes later, turned it on, then drove to the corner where it stumbled and died as he came to the light. Couldn't get it to start and had it towed back to his place.
Says you can hear the fuel pump when you turn the key on and the engine turns over but it just won't catch.
Coworker has suggested the ignition module dohickey the Vortec engines have on the distributor might be the culprit. Says they fail a lot.
Any thoughts?
In December I helped him give it a general tune up as it's 100k+ miles. Was reliable but had a little stumble/miss every now and then. We did plugs, oil and filter, airfilter, and plug wires but he forgot to get the distributor cap and rotor. Put everything on and it ran much better and he said the miss/stumble/whatever was gone.
Few weeks later he gets the rotor and cap and puts them on himself. Immediately he says the miss is back. Keeps reporting it's worse. He's kind of wondering if he had damaged a plug wire because he said he had to kinda reef on them a bit to get them off the dizzy.
Lately he's been saying it's even worse and was getting worried. Last night he drove a few miles to get his son, turned it off, came out a few minutes later, turned it on, then drove to the corner where it stumbled and died as he came to the light. Couldn't get it to start and had it towed back to his place.
Says you can hear the fuel pump when you turn the key on and the engine turns over but it just won't catch.
Coworker has suggested the ignition module dohickey the Vortec engines have on the distributor might be the culprit. Says they fail a lot.
Any thoughts?
