Important Troubleshooting

My agenda today consists of mainly research, not much hands on work today. The first thing I want to dive into today is contacting the company that makes those bushings, energy suspension, and see what they have to say about that bushing seeming big. It will fit if I force it, but if its not supposed to go in there I don't want to mess it up.

The second issue I want to look into is my temperature gauge on the truck not working. There should only be three reasons why its not functioning; The water temp sensor is dirty or busted, then there are two sending units for the temp gauge, one by the dash and one by the ECU, one of those could be cut. When I go to work on the truck next that's gonna be the first issue we solve because the last thing we want is for this new engine to over heat.

I'm also hoping that maybe the temp gauge not working would explain why the engine is running rich, it might be tricking the computer into thinking its always cold (When you first start up your car it uses more gas cause its been resting and is harder to start.) We also need to tune the idle speed as well because it is out of whack. Plus who knows how old the gas that's in it is, old gas alone will make it run like junk. If we're lucky, playing around with the mix of those things will improve how it runs,