When I reassembled my 2.1 I went over all the basics twice before trying to
start it for the first time. Idled rough, made smoke. Checked and rechecked
all the basics again, no joy.
Turned out I had the firing order wrong from the get go.
It's the simple things that'll kill ya.

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Heads

>> The valves made a lot of noise and I have blue smoke.
>
> I can attest that this is normal and if you've done you're valve
> adjustment correctly, the noise will go away.
>
>> She runs rough, very rough.
>
> Injectors hooked up correctly?
>
> All sensors hooked up correctly?
>
> Plug wires hooked up correctly?
>
> Grounds to the head REALLY good?
>
> I spent two days running down my bad running problems, which turned out
> to be not where the pigtail plugs into the the afm, but where the
> pigtail plugged into the original cable. Unplugging and plugging this
> back in cleaned the connections and I've had no problem ever since.
>
> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>             Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jere
>>