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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 12:29 PM
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Emission System Light

I have this light coming on intermittently on one of my work trucks. 02 350 auto. Is there a common culprit or am I gonna have to get the codes read?

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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 02:46 PM
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Any symptoms? Knowing if it's running rough, smoking, stalling, etc can help narrow a few things down. Other than that, scan for codes and see what pops up.
 
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 03:16 PM
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No symptoms that they're reporting, just the occasional light. I was hoping this would be a simple sensor someone could point me to since I don't have a scanner.

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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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Without any symptoms, finding the offending sensor is a crap shoot.
 
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 07:42 PM
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Without any symptoms, finding the offending sensor is a crap shoot.
I know. I was just hoping for a magical, common, CPS type issue that I've never heard of before. I'll let you know what I find out just in case it's useful to someone else later.
 
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Old Nov 1, 2007 | 09:09 AM
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Mechanic changed the MAP sensor. The crew took it home last night and the intermittent light came back this morning. Mechanic said P1316 was thrown and wanted to clean the injectors?

The service manual says to check for a short, searching the forum everyone says this is probably UVCH related, but the truck never ran rough.

If no one else has any thoughts I guess will be checking resistance at the plugs and see if we can find this ourself.
 
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P1316 is most commonly related to the UVC harnesses. Since in your case the light is very intermittent, then one side or the other may just be slightly loose, enough to set make the SES light flicker, but not enough for you to notice engine wise. Too bad your mechanic stopped there and wanted to clean out your injectors. Wrong move. He should have pulled codes that were stored in the IDM to determine which bank of injectors was giving you the problems. That way you would know which valve cover to pull and inspect the UVC harness. P1316 means that there are codes stored in the IDM itself, and can be retrieved by running an injector buzz test.
 
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Are they standing on it, with a load? around 2300-3500 rpm's when this happens? just a thought, my truck appears to try and flash something at me when I am coming from a dead stop to WOT up to 70 mph while pulling my camper.......
 
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Old Nov 1, 2007 | 07:20 PM
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Have you ever heard the saying "Somewhere in Texas there's a village missing its idiot"?
Well that would be because I hired him and he's driving one of my trucks. I heard later that the driver was telling other guys on the crew how strange it was that when the light came on the truck seemed to run really rough, but would smooth out when the light went off.

It was indeed a loose UVCH connector that also had a chaffed wire. So a new harness and all is well.

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