Project VXOverLand

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Ttiwwop

[Thelgord]

Ttiwwop

I have no idea what that is! LOL!

Anyway, I got a new intake manifold gasket installed. Also replaced a bolt for the clamp for the pipe that connects to the engine side of the MAF. Still have the high idle issue. This VX vexes me.

After searching the forum, and asking on the FB page, apparently they is a plug for the power steering that can cause this same issue. When it gets light outside I will try unplugging it and see what happens. If that doesn’t work, I am out of ideas. I have already dropped a bit more than $500 into this motor and it still isn’t right. It is very frustrating to say the least.

Oh, pro tip. The long bolts for the intake manifold? No one carries them. I snapped one durring reassembly. Yes I was using a torque wrench, and no I didn’t over torque it. I am thinking the bolt had been over torqued before and just chose now to fail. Anyway, it was 4:30pm and I was at the last autop parts store that may have had one, they didn’t. Not having my tools in my wife’s car, I purchased a cheap 12mm wrench and flew to my local pull-a-part, which is a twenty minute drive for me. I got there just before they closed and managed to get 4 new bolts from one of the 3 troopers they had in the yard.

I then re-disassembled the intake, and had just enough of the old bolt to get vise grips on the tip, though not very well. Once I got the bolt loose, I just backed it out by hand. I am just glad there was enough of the stud showing to get at it. I suppos I could have welded a nut to the end of the stud if nothing else, but that was something I really wasn’t looking forward to doing. Anyway, I got it, reassembled. The new bolts worked perfectly.

And all that work for nothing. I am starting to think this VX just likes attention and that’s why it so troublesome. My wife calls it my second wife, I call it basket case, but at some point I suppose I am going to have to name the damn thing. Maybe that’s the issue. Without a name, it doesn’t feel welcome yet? LOL!