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Old 03-24-2021, 03:28 PM
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Fair enough. My likely culprits... lower oil dipstick tube o-ring, vacuum line on back of intake manifold that goes to the SAP valve. The block off cap for the vacuum port adjacent to the SAP valve vacuum line on back of intake manifold.

Those are my guesses. I wait anxiously for the next exciting installment of the adventures of Black Bastard.
Solid guesses!

The vacuum line and block off cap I've been stung by before so to rule them out I reached back there and replaced them during the CCV refresh. I might have neglected to mention that.
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Old 03-24-2021, 03:30 PM
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The duct tape holding together the #6 intake runner warms up and starts to fall off. . . you said guess. . .
Solid guess...but no

for safety reasons I only use Duct tape on fuel line or exhaust related repairs.
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So where is the smoke coming from you ask? Excellent question!

Well it seems like it's coming from the middle of the top of the engine. Which makes no sense to me.

I wasn't able to snap a shot of the smoke I saw while I was operating the "Bastard Bong" but it was coming out of the middle towards the back.

I couldn't see smoke coming directly from any source but it was there. Just sort of lingering around the intake runners maybe escaping from the back of the engine and wafting up?

Using one of those little mirrors I tried to get a peek back there at the vacuum lines and those caps. I figured since I gave it the ol' reach around maybe something wasn't sitting properly. Nope, no smoke coming from back there either.





So I'm staring at the engine thinking to myself if it's not coming from the back or any of the hoses where else could it be? It's gotta be a gasket right? That or the intake is cracked

I'm still wondering how CYL 2 and 6 are being singled out. Ruling out everything else except the injector being replaced...well there's a gasket between the intake manifold and engine block right? So I'm thinking if that gasket was compromised it could possibly affect the individual cylinders right?

I did some quick googling and didn't come across many posts with people experiencing a similar issue but I still feel like this could very much be the culprit.

While we're at it what else is a gasket that hasn't been replaced...throttle body housing...even though I don't think that would contribute to specific cylinder misfires, we'll just go ahead and get us a new one.

I felt confident enough in my theory that before long a new intake manifold gaskets and throttle body gasket were on the way!
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Where's our updates you ask??

It seems IMGUR has having some sort of technical difficulties and all my images or either gone or not accessible

Anyone have suggestions for another free image hosting site that doesn't suck?
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I use postimages. Not the prettiest UI, but never had an issue.
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I use postimages. Not the prettiest UI, but never had an issue.
I've used them before and the UI is straight up craigslist v1.0

I guess I got a little spoiled with dumping a bunch of pictures and then coming by later and picking out my links in IMGUR, even though I can't stand the fact they made it such a stupid procedure to make a folder. Which I have yet to be able to pull off
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Tapatalk uploader works flawlessly for me (but seems to load images in HD)

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Tapatalk uploader works flawlessly for me (but seems to load images in HD)

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I'm very familiar with your sitting in the front row of the movie theater experience

and for that reason, I'm out

I'm guessing it's some kind of temporary glitch because as far as I can tell all the images are still showing up (at least for me) but I get a generic error page

"Zoinks! You've taken a wrong turn.
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seems like I've narrowed down my image hosting problem to only my chrome installation

Whatever on with the show!

BTW in case anyone is curious,

there has been NO white smoke at all while all this other crap has been going on, so I might be willing to say that the CCV was in fact the problem and has been resolved...maybe
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