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Originally Posted by Factory6speed
It's hard for any experienced mechanic to screw up a belt job. If you look at the front of the motor is the belt all attached? Not sure about the smell, best case is just residual coolant from it being drained sitting somewhere that will burn off.
Check the electrical connection on your ignition wires. I've put that in partially loose before and the car ran fine for a few minutes and then started misfiring like crazy. Not sure if the 4.4 has that circular style connection, if so it's very possible that it's put in halfway it's easy to do that.
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So, after limping it to the mechanic, I have my answer. It wasn't burning rubber. It was OIL. The positive crankcase ventilation valve failed and too much pressure built up in the crankcase, and it blew threw my valve cover gasket, that was already seeping. The blowout happened right above the catalytic converter, and when it started spewing oil all over the exhaust, it caused a misfire. I lost almost 2 1/2 quarts of oil, and now I'll be paying out the butt to get this fixed. I'm gonna need a new valve cover gasket, CCV, and oil separator, and a trip to Cancun
Just thought I would share what had happened, in case anyone else has a similar situation pop up.