Idle Miss Gone

So for the last 5k miles or so, the new van has had a slight miss at idle under load, and a slight hiccup on WOT. It was never terrible, just enough to be noticeable.



Well, that miss is now gone, as is the stumble.

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The plugs had definitely seen better days. No way in hell were they making it to the 100k mile plug interval.



Of course I upgraded to MSD Blaster coils and NGK Ruthenium HX plugs while I was in there.

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I may have gotten ambitious and cleaned the casting flash out of the upper and lower intake manifolds for...........reasons.......

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Now she idles smooth as silk, has no more midrange hiccup, and seems to have her fuel economy back.