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Old 01-18-2009, 01:08 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by SRGN View Post
98, should be just a regular vortec. A few common failures on that. The injector assembly(poppets go bad or regulator leaks). Intake gasket failure causing a vacuum leak into the lifter valley. Pull off the oil cap while it's running and see if it changes RPM, if it does there is most likely a lower intake gasket leak. The simplest one is a bad distributor cap/rotor, they tend to crossfire badly on a vortec when they fail.

Yup. Happened on both out 98 and 96... Got a whole new "spider" injector assy.
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