Chico

Did you remove the TB when you cleaned it? Is it possible you haven't hooked one of the vac lines back up? Did you remove the TPS when you cleaned it?

:cheers:

I like the gun rack. Where did you get that?

So did you ever figure out why 3" springs gave you only 2"?

Yep, I know, I parked it last week when I actually saw the balancer coming apart and talked to Taz about it. I keep having these nightmares about the balancer coming off, the crankshaft blowing out of the block, going thru the rad, and impaling some blind old guy sitting on a corner asking fer spare change. I've got to switch to decaf.

I think we might have figured this out. The harmonic balancer is coming apart. I'm waiting for a new one from BLHTAZ that should be here this week and I'll see if it fixes the prob. I'll keep you guys updated.

How about something being wrong with the throttle body itself. Hopefully the ECU fixes the problem but I'm just throwing out ideas (trying to make my $64.99 back) Anyway goodluck :cheers:

At least your "research" popped up something other than XXX... Granted that pic is probably PG, but at least good to know you can find stuff other than Pr0n yep, thaT picture popped up when I had my parental control blocker turned on. You should have seen the pics of Wahoo when I had the sucker turned off :eek: :ack: :drool: :clapping: And no you dirty bastards. :needpics: WILL NOT DO AT ALL :rotfl2:

So I'm researching "yuppie" on the net today and a good picture popped up. This poor yuppie has nothing going for him besides the fact he has two beautiful kids. And did you guys notice the horrible inflamation from the blowfish attack in Georgia? Poor guy :yes: On to more important issues. Rob, just walk into the shop. Tell that guy you actually looked at the axle when you got home and realized everything was wrong with it. Make sure you sound real intelligent and mention everything everyone told you on here. Here's my best yuppie impersonation Rob: "Dude, I actually looked at the axle when I got home and it's for sure fubared. Did you even take a look at it before you sold it to me?" Guy: "Listen yuppie, you bought it, it's yours." Rob: "Seriously maan. This thing is shot. I brought it back just to show you I'm not blind, dumb, or stupid. The only thing this is good for is a lawn ornament and my yuppie wife only likes those little bloody knomes. Let's make a deal. You're a Reputable Jeep Shop, right? Help me get this rusty piece of $#!& off my bed, call the scrap guy and see how much he'll give you for it. Then schedule an appointment and drop some new gears in my D30 to match my rear axle. You've already got $250 from me and I'll throw in another $120 (or some amount you find fair). You still get paid, I get the gears I want, and my pain in the @$$ wife has more room for those stupid little knomes. What do you say?" Guy: "I could say go @#$% yourself. But the truth is I'll take your deal because not only am I going to keep your $250 but I'll make a little extra cash on the job and I still get to sell that POS axle to someone who's not part of the Comanche Club. That and I know you'll give out my number on the net and Chico and Wahoo will call me 134 times a day to tell me how much of an a$$hole I am until I finally give in and accept your deal. So why put up with the hassle. Drop the axle off out back and bring your truck back in a week and we'll put those new gears in for you." Rob: "Dude, that's cool. Would you like me to bring you back a Latte when I come back next week?" Guy: "That would be swell!"

Wait Pat, How do we really know Rob is a yuppie? :rotfl2:

B, Did you make sure the throttle cable wasn't getting stuck causing the engine to actually run at 3500 RPM?

It goes into your speedo gear in your transfer case.

When you pull the cluster out the cable should just come with it. At least it did on mine :dunno:

So Chico, does this mean you would put woodgrain shelf paper on yours after painting it PennDOT Orange? :D ABE-SO-LOOT-LEE!!! Then I'd add a gun rack, spray paint my bling-bling rims camo, and add enough lights to brighten up a small stadium. I'm the only redneck spic you know baby :rotfl2:

$3.27 today. It's amazing how the south is short on gas but our prices keep dropping, yet when Katrina hit almost the same area our prices flew up one dollar :nuts: It's a conspiracy. I'm not even going to get into the alien thing right now :rotfl2:

I liked the woodgrain.

I'm not really a big fan of them but any Subaru will get over 20 MPG, used ones are relatively cheap, their reliable, and do very well up to about a foot of snow.

I was waiting fer that :rotfl2:

I wanted to agree that this is extremely true. I'm the first one to bring up that my political or religous views do not in any way belong on this forum but what we hear or see on the news is not the story. Yes, it is based on factual information, however 90% is far from the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

You know Eagle, I keep voting for myself every election but no one ever seems to call me to let me know I won. PM me your real name and I'll write you in if your serious about running. If your serious about winning I'll even run your campaign free of charge until we get you in office :D

I agree with Simon for most of what he says. I'm one of the small shops going under because of the domino effect that the problems on Wall Street have caused. I don't like it either but let the government send out the 700 billion. In economics it's a non-tangible. That money isn't even real. Are your taxes going to go up? Yes, but to be honest you're not going to notice it as much as you will notice how the economy falls if they don't "bail them out". The only real people getting hurt by Wall Street's mistakes besides themselves is the small guy. Cet summarized it for you. It's happening as we speak and will get worse. And anyway if you don't think you should pay higher taxes because of their mistakes, then don't pay what you don't think you should. It's completely legal and possible to make up the amount that you think is your fair share of the pie.

Johnny, by any chance is yours the MJ they're working on that put in an NV3550 tranny?

:rant: WTH do you mean you can't gaurantee A diagnosis by a horrible description of the noise over the internet and a crappy cell phone video :rotfl2: I'll see ya tomorrow :thumbsup:

You're exactly correct homey, I was going to ask :D But do you think it could be the cause of this noise? Of course with a correct diagnosis I would have to pay your 65.99 fee :D That B and I'm going to need that front seal between the balancer and the block. What's fuct is I just had it replaced about a year ago right before I found this site. I bought the balancer off of E-bay at Part's Warehouse or something like that. I'm going to check my records but I'm betting it was made in China! What's the official name of that seal (is it Front Main Seal) and can you just PM with the total fer both so I can pay ya? :cheers: Oh, and last question. Should I stop driving the truck to avoid any further damage until I change the balancer out?

Hi kids. I'm still working on this noise which is getting worse. Now it's doing it at idle, when I accelerate from a dead stop, or come around a corner. Tried all the tricks mentioned earlier to diagnose where the noise is coming from but I can't pinpoint it. Here's what I did see though. When the noise happens you see the harmonic balancer do strange things. How strange? Well imagine the front wheel on the balancer. If you're looking at it staight on there is an outside ring and an inner ring. Remember the video of me blipping the throttle? At the point I do that the outside ring actually moves out toward the radiator while the inner ring stays put. :nuts: That's not normal right? Now remember, I know nothing about the internal workings of a combustion engine, but isn't that balancer connected to something (crankshaft I think) and couldn't the slop of the balancer coming apart maybe cause whatever it's connected to to hit something that it's not supposed to inside the engine? I know I'm not using the correct terminology here but I'm starting to think something in the lower end of the engine is @#$%ed. Guys, opinions, comments, or am I just off my rocker here?