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Surging after tappet cover gasket replacement

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I had the stealership replace my tappet cover gasket (I know, bad idea but time is money) and now its surging/ having delayed fueling when stepping on the gas. Also feels like it wants to die when releasing the clutch from a stop.

What do you think they messed up for me to be having these issues? Im thinking timing from removing the injection pump.

I'm bringing it back but I want to be prepared for whatever excuse they'll spin me. Thanks

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  • Rotket
    Rotket

    It was 1100 dollars for a new cover and gaskets with the seals and quoted 8 hours. Honestly I should have taken the time to do it myself, I have the ability and tools. I should have ran when

  • dripley
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    Started a thread a couple days ago about some surging. Had a 216 code also. The truck was running fine except for the odd surgingat low RPM. Cleared the code too and things seemed alright. On the way

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54 minutes ago, Rotket said:

I just don't understand why it would die with adequate fuel pressure

Some were better than others, heard of people changing them as early as 20k. I got my truck with 120k on it and it already had a reman vp for a while from what I was told. 

1 hour ago, Rotket said:

Ive had a fass

Ive had a fass 165 on there for 5 years. Has fuel pressure and the pump is working.

Truck is completely gutless no matter what the edge is on and low rpm wants to die. I checked over their work and nothing obvious stands out.

My pump is original with 155k on it. I just don't understand why it would die with adequate fuel 

  My original lasted 3 years and 75k miles. Yours has seen 5 years of a FASS system. What did it see for the first 14 years of its life? My latest VP has 270k on it and 8 maybe 9 years of pumping with an AD pump and 2 cycle oil. But it had similar symptoms as yours. No real loss of power until 10 minutes before it died, but I did have the surging and a 216 code. Are you experiencing any hard starting as in longer than normal cranking time.

 

This could just be an ugly coincidence.  

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57 minutes ago, dripley said:

  My original lasted 3 years and 75k miles. Yours has seen 5 years of a FASS system. What did it see for the first 14 years of its life? My latest VP has 270k on it and 8 maybe 9 years of pumping with an AD pump and 2 cycle oil. But it had similar symptoms as yours. No real loss of power until 10 minutes before it died, but I did have the surging and a 216 code. Are you experiencing any hard starting as in longer than normal cranking time.

 

This could just be an ugly coincidence.  

Yes it starts like its 0 degrees outside when its 50. Also another weird thing happened today. When I had my obd reader connected I got a "no buss" message on the odometer.

The message went away after unplugging the reader. 

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I'm now getting the p0216 code and a lost communication to ecm code.

 

2 hours ago, Rotket said:

I'm now getting the p0216 code and a lost communication to ecm code.

 

Thats not a p0606 code is it?

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3 hours ago, dripley said:

Thats not a p0606 code is it?

Its p1694. Failure reading between pcm and ecm

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