Rough running 0304 code solved

Thanks to searching all over this forum, I was quickly able to fix my rough running, stumbling truck.

Turns out that when the dealership installed a set of plugs a year ago, the never tightened them down to spec. I was basically able to remove them by hand, without the end of the socket wrench. You can see the plug on the end that came out of cly. 4 - the blow by on the top of the plug ( this one was extremely loose ).

Anyhow, I changed them all out ( along with the wires ) and she's running perfectly!

Perhaps this will be helpful for someone down the road.

Cheers!

 

Chalk another fabulous repair up to the amazing stealership service dept!! good for you for finding it yourself and not going back to them to make something up and have you spend more money. It's pretty empowering when we realize we can handle most of the stuff we sub out to shops.... Who typically have 19 year olds turning the wrench and charging you a hundred an hour for that kid to work on your vehicle
So good for you hombre well done

 

Lucky day and Congratulations!

 

Wow, that's not good. Lucky you didn't spit a plug or two out and ruin the head! Nice catch.

 

did you keep track of which plug came out of what cylinder? The far right one with the "wet" insulator and blowby... was that the misfiring one?

 

Yes, the "wet" one with the blow by was out of cylinder #4 - where the code was coming from...

Now that the truck is running so well, I'll be investigating upgrading the suspension with some billy's in the spring!

 

thanks for the reply. I upgraded to Bilsteins on the front of my 96 4X4 and if I rememeber right, I had to experiment with the snap ring placement for the lift I desired for the additional weight of the flatland bumber and the winch.

 

Dealership? Premium price, sloppy service. I stopped going to the dealer after the warranty ran out.

 

I have had discussions with my cousin who is a service manager at a Hyundai dealership about poor service and the unprofessionalism that seems to be prevalant in auto dealerships these days. He tells me that in lots of service depsrtments that techs are not 100% commission anymore like in my day. They are low salary and there is no incentive to do a better job. They are getting the same amount in $ per hour that I was back in the 90's but the dealership has had such an increase in overhead costs per employee that this is what it looks like today. $100 and hour to get your Hyundai worked on... almost any repair will exceed what that thing is worth.

 

That's very eye opening, considering the source I assume that to be relatively true. What a shame

 

I asked him... can I, a 60 year old dude, come and work for you and show the young guys how it supposed to be done and make bank at the same time? 25 flag hours per 40 hour pay period, 62% efficency, would have got your rear tossed back in the day.

 

Totally agree. I had a part time lube tech gig when in HS at the local Yota dealership service dept. This was mid 90s, so it's been a while, but that place was full of good solid techs. Not sure when this all changed.... Or maybe I didn't know enough back then to know a bad tech. But these guys enjoyed their work and did good work as far as I remember. Taught me a lot. I credit a lot of stuff I've picked up and learned from those old timers. The shop lead Master tech, Doug, I remember missing half a pinky nicest freaking guy too. Good folks..... anywho

 

me too... started as a lube tech at a Toyota dealer... $8.50 a flat rate hour @ .35 time units per oil change. All I did was oil changes and look for easy stuff, axle boots, brake pads etc. After week 3 the service manager was handing out pay checks and looked at mine, and then a re-look. I was making more than the tune and front end guys. He wanted to know how, the last guy didnt make that much, thats why he left. I said, how hard is it to rack 2 cars and put one on jack stands in between and drain the oil on 3 cars at a time ... scrape the oil drain plug seal and make sure that the filter o-ring comes off with the filter. He said, it is an easy job.