For anybody seeing this: p0300 was kicking my c1500s ass for 3 years. Every 6 months, new cap and rotor would fix for 6 months. After one of the replacement cycles,it came back after a week and I had to do something different finally. My distributor also had this much play and after throwing in a cheap aluminum distributor, 50 buck amazon/ebay special, paired with my delco cap and rotor, (not my 6 month lifeperiod autozone warranty set or the shitty ones included with the aluminum distributor) the truck starts, runs, and drive awesome and misfire free. Afterwards, my sideways play was about 1/8 of before, which was very similar to the one in this video. No more p0300 for my truck. Code clear for 3 months so far. Thought this might help someone. P0300 is a pain in the ass to diagnose Vertical play still exists but that's built into the design. It's supposed to have about .020" vertical play. I also would like to note that my original distributors gear teeth had ridges that were visible to the naked eyes of probably .010" or so. One tooth being off that much wouldn't cause anything, but 15 teeth being worn that much definitely causes sideways play!
For anybody seeing this: p0300 was kicking my c1500s ass for 3 years. Every 6 months, new cap and rotor would fix for 6 months. After one of the replacement cycles,it came back after a week and I had to do something different finally. My distributor also had this much play and after throwing in a cheap aluminum distributor, 50 buck amazon/ebay special, paired with my delco cap and rotor, (not my 6 month lifeperiod autozone warranty set or the shitty ones included with the aluminum distributor) the truck starts, runs, and drive awesome and misfire free.
Afterwards, my sideways play was about 1/8 of before, which was very similar to the one in this video. No more p0300 for my truck. Code clear for 3 months so far. Thought this might help someone. P0300 is a pain in the ass to diagnose
Vertical play still exists but that's built into the design. It's supposed to have about .020" vertical play. I also would like to note that my original distributors gear teeth had ridges that were visible to the naked eyes of probably .010" or so. One tooth being off that much wouldn't cause anything, but 15 teeth being worn that much definitely causes sideways play!
I have the p0300 and i have about this play in mine.
Did you replace the distributor and if so, how was the play in the new one compared to the old?
Did you ever replace it?
nope turned out it was a broken valve spring
@@bam6972 how did the truck run?
look at my other videos about this truck. 97 jimmy running rough i think is one of them
I'm no mechanic but my 01 sonoma has the same kinda play and is running like shit.
+Richard Mann yea I'm going to be replacing mine after doing injectors and a full tune-up and still misfiring so bad it cant be drove.
its the distributor. I just did mine at 150,000 runs like new.