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Solstice! Car starts to run rough after hitting the gas, intermittently.
Regarding the tangent, yes, an ill-fitting dipstick can be the cause of a vacuum leak.
Pulling out the dipstick is a way mechanics can figure out if the car is suffering from unmetered air/vacuum ...
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THAT Solstice - What causes an exhaust back-fire?
The most common cause of backfiring in MAF driven cars is an air leak in the intake system. This causes the engine to misread how much air is entering the engine, and too much or too little fuel is ...
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Removing head while maintaining timing chain tension & position
I would use wire (welding rod is a good candidate) or small springs to "hook" the chain either side - obviously the top part stays loose but the bottom part around the lower sprocket stays firmly in ...
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Solstice! Car starts to run rough after hitting the gas, intermittently.
So, here's the difference between the Solstice and Malibu dipsticks (both 2.4L LE5)
The shorter one with the larger diameter, bright yellow handle is from the Solstice. Fortunately it was still in ...
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Non-blown blown head gasket
To answer the question - moot at this point for you I'm sure, but this is a Question and Answer site after all - What looks and acts like a blown head gasket, resulting in coolant in the cylinder, ...
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06 Solstice - weird hesitation / bogging under heavy throttle
Solved!
Having cleaned the MAF, checked the O2 sensors, hunted all over for a vacuum leak (here's a hint - don't spray carb cleaner near a disconnected vacuum hose that's actually carrying positive ...
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ECM voltage, spark spike
To get this off the unanswered question list:
There was an intermittent break in the wiring harness near the MAP sensor. I removed the damaged section and lineman-spliced it, and this particular ...
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ECM voltage, spark spike
That is a lot of spark advance. It looks like its sitting at 5-7ish degrees, then pulls up to almost 30 suddenly. Thats way higher than any normal adjustment I've seen.
I added my own line onto ...
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Cleaned throttle body, MAP sensor suddenly dead
The problem was the harness.
On this car, there is a short "injector harness" which drives the injectors and the MAP, and is separable from the main engine harness. A solder joint near the MAP sensor ...
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ECM voltage, spark spike
Doesn't this car have two MAP sensors? See this discussion forum for more information. Seems like one of them involves temperature, so you may have replace them as a pair.
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06 Solstice - weird hesitation / bogging under heavy throttle
A lot of the symptoms sound like an air leak, which would fit with the p0455 error code. I would try to block off the evap connection to the air intake to see if that helps.
Why do I think this?
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Solstice - Can an exhaust leak cause (really bad) hesitation?
So, that's not what is generally meant by a "boost leak" – a boost leak is on the compressor side of the turbocharger, compressed air that should be going into the engine is leaking out before it gets ...
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