okay… where to start!!
IM ABOUT @ 100K and the good old zr2 let me down Again!! i love it to death but give me a break!! Normally im really good at figuring this out but in all honesty me and Everyone i talked to thinks im crazy…
here’s how it happend…
driving wot up a hill and then it honestly feels like im in final drive pulling out… no power… no matter how far i press the pedal motor’s making nothing but wot noise @ low rpm…i pull into my driveway and just outta curious wot to see if it would redline in park! no go… it was late so i called it a night, Morning comes and i went out to check it out! starts like normal!
drive it around and it runs like normal! then after everything got up to temp it started not be able to make it up hills like it use to… kinda bogged
sooo i figured i had to go down to the lake with out any real issues… my dad thought it was the tranny so he thought put some lucas tranny fluid in it!
Tranny fluid is red… doesn t smell burnt… but why not it was a qt low anyway!
when pulling out @ half throttal the truck would pull like normall… then kinda gag for a lil… then pull again…
I get home and i had to haul a tractor for my mom so i load it up… Bogged going up the hill almost couldn t make it!
i get on the highway and it bogged away!! its like off on off on off on… started getting pretty bad through youngwood…
i hit 119 my truck honestly couldn t run over 40 mph but yet the motor sounds normal…
im almost into scottdale and my truck felt like it was on its last leg… it creeped up a hill… @ 5mph if i was lucky…
this Truck idle’s PERFECT, revs perfect when cold… shifts perfect cold… Only code is the emissions air pump which been on for yrs…
NOW i was thinking the cat’s half way out the door cause when it would loose power if i pressed the gas just a tiny more it felt like it would release something and move like normal again… and i also thought maybe it was causing the motor to knock and go in a temp limp mode!
this is off the wall and im not the brightest but i know alot when it comes to problems, but this ones killing me!
i dropped the y pipe and looked in the first precat but it seems to look normal with out any issues [just looked like a normal honey comb with out any kind of melt down] so im seriouslly lost…
"I KNOW THIS GOTTA BE THE BIGGEST RUN ON YOU GUYS EVER READ!! " but i would appreciate any kind of info…
One other thing its doing is… while driving half throttal it falls on its face! then bucks… then goes normal all in a matter of seconds.!
tranny was rebuilt with new tq converter 20k ago…
any idea’s please post! im running outta idea’s!!
