FIXED: 2007 Suburban running VERY rough
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FIXED: 2007 Suburban running VERY rough
Condition:
- Service ABS
- Service Traction Control
- Extreme rough idle (spoiler: as if all driver side cylinders not firing)
My Fix:
- Check to see if the coil packs are working on the driver side.
- with vehicle running, I pulled off spark plug wires one at a time and noticed no difference, so ended up pulling all wires off driver side all at once and still no difference.
- that indicated no driver side coil pack were firing (even though truck ran albeit roughly)
- checked for ground at the connector between the front and rear pair of coil packs and there was no ground
- installed a fresh ground to the black wire in the connector and everything works again. Hoping that I didn't introduce a ground loop.
I am having a few other issues (auto level, backup camera, clock) that could be explained by a bad ground, so wondering if they were all related. I fixed the one issue with my added ground, but will start to search now for perhaps a bad ground block or wire that may be causing grief to my other systems.....
Just sharing.
- Service ABS
- Service Traction Control
- Extreme rough idle (spoiler: as if all driver side cylinders not firing)
My Fix:
- Check to see if the coil packs are working on the driver side.
- with vehicle running, I pulled off spark plug wires one at a time and noticed no difference, so ended up pulling all wires off driver side all at once and still no difference.
- that indicated no driver side coil pack were firing (even though truck ran albeit roughly)
- checked for ground at the connector between the front and rear pair of coil packs and there was no ground
- installed a fresh ground to the black wire in the connector and everything works again. Hoping that I didn't introduce a ground loop.
I am having a few other issues (auto level, backup camera, clock) that could be explained by a bad ground, so wondering if they were all related. I fixed the one issue with my added ground, but will start to search now for perhaps a bad ground block or wire that may be causing grief to my other systems.....
Just sharing.
#2
Check the ground strap from the engine block to the body. When they're just naked braided copper they tend to rot out.
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Thomas Engle (April 23rd, 2020)
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Just FYI - pulling the plug wire is a quick way to ruin coils. Without a path to ground through the plug (or a spark tester), the coil can track through itself to get to ground, creating a short between the primary and secondary windings. With COP, just unplug the harness connector - it cuts power and ground to the coil and you’d have known just the same that those cylinders weren’t firing.
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maxstead (April 5th, 2020)
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Grounding to the engine block would be better. The pulse currents through the body could cause some problems.
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