albrightc |
06-10-2011 04:51 PM |
1998 S-10 Blazer 4.3L V6 ROUGH IDLE.
Ok so here is the story.
Several days ago, I was driving down the highway towards my house. I looked down at my gauges and my temp gauge (100-260F) read 100F, which was weird because I had been driving for a good 15 minutes. I kept my eye on it and all of a sudden it was at 245F. I immediately took an exit and headed straight for a parking lot, but I had to stop at a light, and there the car died. My dad came and towed me into the lot, and we popped the hood. There was not a lot of radiator fluid, and the water pump was leaking pretty seriously, about a cup every 2 or 3 minutes.
Anyways we ran to the store and got some distilled water, filled it up, and started it. This was the first time that the rough idle appeared. We limped it home (about 3 miles on city streets) and let it sit overnight.
The next day, I flushed the radiator and replaced the water pump and tested it out, and unexpectedly, the rough idle did not go away. I tried revving the engine in park to see if that would help it smooth out, but it did nothing.
After that, I changed the oil and replaced the oil filter. Still nothing. I replaced all the spark plugs and spark plug wires. Still nothing. ***I also ran the car for about 5 seconds each without one of the spark plug wires attached and it didn't sound any different!*** I cleaned the carburetor, the EGR valve, and the O2 sensor on the intake manifold as well and nothing helped.
:confused: So basically I have no idea what is going wrong. Once the engine is at 1000rpm it runs fine, but anything below that and the engine shakes in its mounts pretty hard. It also idles pretty low, about 500-700 rpm, even though we adjusted the idle speed on the throttle body to its max.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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