There is an air/oil separator on the back of the manifold that can fail
allowing oil gunk to get into the manifold and goober up the flaps so
they stick in some position that does not allow the flapdoodles to do
what they are supposed to do. The manifold itself is sealed up so you
can't take i
I don't know if this is similar to what we had in a 1998 F150 with the
4L V6 or not. It had some sort of flap valves in the intake manifold. It
started acting up and my mechanic son, who was driving it at the time,
repaired it. I think all that was wrong with it was that the plastic
clips that
Here’s my take based on older models with what I believe to be the same feature:
Intake air flaps are used to “route” intake air from one source to another in
the intake. If they fail, air only comes from one source, which rarely has an
effect on operation, but may affect economy (think “cold” a
Hi All,
As suggested I brought my car to a mechanic to check out the live data with a
scanner. There was one code that he said caused all the other codes to come on:
P0522 - "The Charge Movement Flap (Cylinder Bank 1) Has A Malfunction".
That code was one of the original codes which came on ov
The only way to figure these problems out is with a good diagnostic scanner.
You can watch cold start data and see what’s going on, and you see any errors
in the system. Only way to save time, money, misery, and guesswork.
That said, does it have secondary air injection? That adjusts air and s
Hi All,
I recently replaced all the spark plugs and coil packs on my daughter's
2011 Mercedes C300 4Matic w/110K. I had multiple codes after the replacement
and with the help of the group finally determined that there was an issue with
the "New" coil packs that I installed. I purchased 6
