PCM P0171 & P0174 history codes

The first thing you need to do is check for a vaccuum leak. You can use carb spray.

If you want to pursue the vacuum hoses, check at the auto parts stores that rent or borrow tools to see if they have a "smoke machine". That puts a white, non-toxic smoke into the system under two pounds of pressure, then you search for where it's seeping out. You can inject it into any vacuum hose or port.

A more common cause of fuel mixture problems that affects GM cars more than most other brands is mismatched fuel injectors. I only remember two brands from a very high-level school taught by an injector specialist. Chrysler buys their injectors from Bosch in flow-matched sets of four, six, or eight injectors. GM grabs a handful out of a huge bin and stuffs them in an engine with no regard to flow-matching them. By the time they get to around 100,000 and have some wear on them, a few will flow enough less fuel than the others that those cylinders are a little lean. The unburned oxygen is detected by the oxygen sensors and in response, the Engine Computer requests more fuel to all of the cylinders on that side of the engine. No matter how much extra fuel it requests, there will still be that unburned oxygen being detected, hence the lean fault code. Oxygen sensors don't detect unburned fuel, just oxygen. Rebuilt replacement injectors is the fix for that. They can only be purchased in matched sets. About 98 percent of that company's sales are for GM products. Most of the customers are amazed at how smoothly their engines run with those new injectors. That has been the solution to a lot of running and Check Engine light problems that have defied extensive diagnostic attempts.

Low fuel pressure will result in a lean condition too although that is a sign of a pump that may be failing and that won't typically go on for very long. The low pressure would cause a hesitation or stumble too.

I wish the auto parts stores rented smoke machines lol. Get some carb spray let it idle spray around the intake gasket vacuum lines anywhere vacuum would be. If the engine stumbles rpms go up or down or dies there is a vacuum leak there. As far as the gm injectors I really havent seen the issues with the injectors. Getting dirty needing cleaning yes but going bad really havent seen that problem.

Not that they're bad, in fact a lot of people obsess over the resistance checks and fail injectors that are still okay. It's just that if you put them in a fixture, side-by-side and watch how much fuel sprays into measured test tubes, they're all different. The story I shared is the story I got, but you have to consider carbon and varnish deposits that build up over time. Obviously those injectors performed satisfactorily when they were new. That could be why cleaning chemicals and machines are so popular and productive.

I hadn't thought about the carb spray. I was envisioning a complicated-looking maze of hoses and wires. I use water when the engine is still cold because I don't have to BUY water. The problem is you have to see or hear it get sucked in and often the leak is too small to be noticed. In that respect, carburetor cleaner is a better choice. You still might not be able to see where it's getting sucked in but at least it will get you real close so you have a smaller area to inspect.

Don't overlook leakage past the throttle shaft bushings. I've never found that myself but I have read about that being the solution a few times.

To answer the question about where the intake gasket is follow where the throttle body is bolted too. That is the intake follow it down to the engine where all the bolts that hold it in place. Thats where you will find the intake gasket. As far as the injectors go gm has bulletins for them being clogged. The flow problem is hard to belive because gm uses a afid tester I know I spelled that wrong lol. It hooks right to the obd2 connector and the fuel pressure test port. It does a pretty comprehensive test it cycles the injectors thru the computer and measures fuel pressure drop to test the injectors also figures flow rate of each injector. If they were that mismatched it would make that tester results useless. Also pre that tester gm uses a injector balance test which you use a injector pulser. You watch fuel pressure drop while pulsing the injectors for the same amount of time. Watching for a difference from one injector to the other.

That's an interesting-sounding test, but what led to their need for it? Keep in mind too that the school I went to was about six years ago and at that time he was talking about cars old enough to have a history.

Is that test done with GM's scanner or does it require some other special equipment?

As for the service bulletin on clogged injectors, what was the recommendation? Could they be cleaned, as in varnish buildup, or did it have to do with a blocked screen? Could those be cleaned or did you have to replace the injectors?

Honestly I only used the afid tester once by the request of tech assit hotline I did the afid test it came out fine. They wanted me to replace the injectors anyways and if that didnt fix to replace the ecm. It was a phatom random missfire it would start missfiring then suddenly stop. Very random I told my boss I dont see all the injectors failing all at once and that I thought it was the ecm. He said replace the ecm replaced the ecm car was fixed. This was the saturn aura which is a rebadged chevy malibu. The afid tester has a built in computer no need for the tech2 scan tool when using that. Its really expensive tester and a pain to set up and run all the tests it has. The older injector balance test doesnt use a scan tool ethier you unplug the injector harness from the injectors and plug the kent moore injector tester on each injector to pulse them. You can also use that tester to test transmission actuator/solenoids. As far as the gm clogged injector bulletin you use the otc pressure canister to run the car with cleaner plus put a bottle of chevron techroline cleaner in the gas tank.

The afid tester is actually used to scope the injectors flow electrically etc a comprehensive test of the injectors while they are working.

15 for which part is bad?

The cost of the repair is going to be based on what the repair entails. It all depends if it is a intake gasket leaking a hose leaking etc. Without knowing the cause cant estimate a repair cost.

The labor would be about 2hrs times what ever there shop labor rate is. Parts would be about 60 depending on how much there marking them up. Also what ever they charge for hazzardous wastes fees etc.

Sorry it took so long to get back too you some how I didnt get a email you posted some more responses. You have a coil cassette for each bank of cylinders with boots going from it to your spark plugs.I posted a pic pf it for you iam contaqcting our caddy expert to help out on this question.