What have you done to your square lately??

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Can you check EGR for sticking/leaks?

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you can use a syringe on the vacuum port to see if the diaphragm is bad. If you pull on the syringe and it doesn't get harder to pull, it's leaking. You should be able to pull it, and hold it with the same effort. If the effort gets lighter over time, it's leaking. It's best to have one of the larger syringes (60cc).

Hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say lol.

edit: With the syringe not hooked up to anything, put your finger on the tip and pull it.....thats what your looking for. the syringe plunger should want to go back in.
 

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Pulled the header panel and drivers bedside off the 85
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Then proceeded to get the 76 stuck in the mud, the worn down BFG and open diff didn't do any favors
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Pulled the header panel and drivers bedside off the 85
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Then proceeded to get the 76 stuck in the mud, the worn down BFG and open diff didn't do any favors
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You try the parking brake trick for a cheap posi ?

Stuck to me is the wrong word - unable to move is more accurate. Been there in clay with gummed up all terrains ...

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Explain this trick to me. I think i have an idea of what you mean but idk...

Put the parking brake on enough so that there is drag on both tires, and in theory power, but of course not enough to keep them from actually turning. I'd rather have a real posi, but, in a pinch this may help.
 

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When i had my open diff i found that mildly pumping the brakes while staying on the gas worked to get me out somehow
 

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LOL - Dam near put it into a curb this morning. Took the U- Turn at West Airport and 59 south - do this every morning I drive it to work - and it is wet. I guess I went in too fast ( 20 MPH, maybe ? ) and braked too late as the next thing I know the fronts are locked and I am sliding towards the curb with the sound of locked up mud grips howling on the pavement . Stopped before the curb , and went on my merry way.

Gave somebody behind me a show :dogpile:.

Thing was , I was laughing - like WTF ?

One advantage of full time - that would probably not have happened as the fronts have traction, too.


That intersection is bad news for me - I had to lock 'em up one time before as some gal in a Nissan ( she gave me the sorry wave afterwards ) tried to move over in my lane while I was there and got to hear the same noise.

How do you miss seeing something the size of Goldie ?

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Hmmm. A doob never affected my timing.
 

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Nothing.
 

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Just confirmed ( after 2 years LOL) that the lighter receptacle has power.

No lighter element- guess I need to get one.

Won't use it, but it should be there.

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added 6 oz of seafoam to the oil. It's my daily driver so it'll be close to 300 miles next weekend and I'll change it, unless the oil is black before then.
 

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Not sure how much $$ seafoam is, but I have used ATF 100 miles or so prior to oil change for years. Works great!

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