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      10-23-2019, 05:29 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by percychow View Post
OK silly idea. Intake charge pipe? 'Cause a vacuum leak would definitely cause sputtering and misfires. But would it throw AF ratios off enough to make the ECU think it's a misfire.

FWIW, I replaced my charge pipe at 55k miles. The pipe was OK, but all the stupid plastic fittings/nipples to it/around it were brittle as hell. Given all the plastic under the hood, I can't see how at over 90k that stuff wouldn't start cracking up.
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Originally Posted by percychow View Post
FWIW, I replaced my charge pipe at 55k miles. The pipe was OK, but all the stupid plastic fittings/nipples to it/around it were brittle as hell. Given all the plastic under the hood, I can't see how at over 90k that stuff wouldn't start cracking up.
Eh with this, there was fuel and oil mixing where it shouldn't have been, and 5's orig spark plug was gone to hell.
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