C-15 seems to have a miss and loss of power

I'll know tomorrow. I asked but he said he didn't know off the top of his head. I'm sure they ordered a reman one though. That's fine with me. It's warrantied for a year. If it lasts that long it should be good for another few years anyway.

 

Injector was $650. The final bill with 3 hrs labor was $1,120. But I also spent $630 for some nothing diagnostics so really this was a $1,750 injector. They said valve lash and injector height was all good so no need for any adjustment. That $1,100 in labor would have bought a few manuals and tools for sure. The spring was snapped in two. I can definitely tell the power and throttle response is much better but I want to load it up and see how it goes. I never really can tell when it's empty I don't why.

 

I've seen he has a lot of videos. I think it was his video that already saved me at least $500 in labor on new thermostats a few weeks ago, I was surprised that was very easy, but #### if I didn't burn that savings up quickly on this fiasco.

 

The miss after the upshifts is all gone. Doesn't do that anymore. Like I said (and odd I thought especially now that we know the injector spring was broken) it would ONLY do that after a long pull up a grade loaded and when I crested the top of the hill getting more speed and upsplitting (13sp) into a higher gear it would miss for about a half second or less. 99% of the other driving time it never missed with that broken spring in there.

Power is much better. Fuel mileage is up. I still can't shake it that it doesn't seem 100% right though. I dunno what it is though, maybe nothing. Hell even with that injector having a broken spring it still outpulled most every other truck out here when loaded. #### yellow motors pull good even when they're off.

Honestly though this motor was never the same after it was inframed 5 years and about 250,000 miles ago. Before the inframe it never burned a drop of oil between 12,500 mile OCI's. Since the inframe it always burns 2 gallons between those 12,500 OCI's. I really hate that but they said it was in spec. Whatever the #### that means. A new motor should not burn oil, period.

I read on here quality control on a lot of CAT parts is sketchy and it's not unknown for the new pistons that come already inside the new liner packs, that the ring gaps aren't always properly spaced on those. Just an assumption on my part that this could be my oil consumption issue.