Throttle Lag and Loss of power?

I know there's some smart people on this board, so I'm looking for advice.

A couple of days ago I noticed something while driving. When I'm accellerating, the truck seems to take more than a second to respond to my throttle inputs, especially when mashing the pedal to the floor and getting to wide-open throttle. I know my truck has never acted this way before and couldn't figure out what might be causing it.

Just a day before I did an oil change, consisting of Mobil-1 5w30, but somehow I don't think this is the problem.

I thought about unplugging the battery to attempt to reset the ECU that way it can "re-learn" my driving styles. Is this a lost cause? Another idea I had was maybe a dirty air filter (yes, I should have checked it during the oil change. oops), but didn't think much of it as it was onset quite quickly.

So what does everyone think? What did I do to my truck?!

 

Did you possibly leave something unplugged?

 

Of course that's crossed my mind. I've gone back over it in my mind and can't think that I forgot anything. I've been busy at work and haven't had a chance to take a real good look. I'll get the chance tomorrow, just wanted to see what everyone thought.

 

Kinda weird man...I'd unplug your battery like you said and go from there. I know a lot of reputable shops do free diagnostics. maybe its your fuel injectors

 

I know this is going to sound insane, but did you get the oil at Wal-Mart? My brother was telling me that he has had two cars this month come into his shop after an oil change using Mobil 1 Oil from Wal-Mart that were running like crap and had a loss of power and were smoking a bit. He said after a change of oil that both of the cars ran just like normal.

I know this sounds messed up but just a thought .. :\

 

haha, honestly it doesn't sound as crazy as you think. I actually bought the oil from a O'Reilly auto parts store, and that was only because I forgot to get it at the wal-mart. It was one of those big 4qt jugs though.

 

the big jugs of mobile-1 are 4 quarts for some reason, unless it is different geographically or store to store i dont know, but i just purchased a 4 quart jug from O'Reilly's this past week. maybe you didnt put enough if you only used the one 4 quart jug

 

Sounds like you might of over filled your oil. Have you noticed any white smoke when you gas it?

 

the truck is fly by wire! ( airplane term )

What that means, is when you smash the pedal the throttle doesn't just open.

it means the pedal sends a message to the computer that you would like to go fast,

the computer makes sure all systems are a go for that type of request

if everything is good, the computer will then tell the throttle to open up.

now how long do you think it takes to accomplish all of that - more than a second???

 

my instant thought was maybe the catalytic converter. one went out on an old buick i had and man it cut the performance in half. but idk if you got an 07???? maybe some seafoam through your system?

 

how many miles on the truck? when was the last time you cleaned the tb and maf sensor? as said before.....its a drive-by-wire system...all computer controlled.

 

56,000. I never thought of that, though. I may give that a shot. Even though it seems as though that it's passed. The truck seems as though it's driving more normal now. Maybe I'll still do this as a preventative measure.

 

Hmmm.....my truck has been doing some wierd things in the past 2 weeks.

When I'm on the expressway and I try accelerating going from 40/50 mph to 60/70 mph it seems to bog down as if it's having trouble changing gears. It also sounds loud. I do have a CAI but I know the CAI is not causing the additional noise. I expericence this with my older Toyota after a timing belt change and we had to accelerate the timing but I haven't messed with the engine in my 2006 since I bought it.

The only thing I can think of is that it does not like cold weather, and we have had cold weather here in Dallas that past 2 weeks around the time it started acting weird.

Any thoughts......and Fuzzy don't mean to thread jack but I wonder if you are experiencing something like I have described.....