{"id":32106,"date":"2016-07-07T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=32106"},"modified":"2016-07-07T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:28:47","slug":"1994-chevy-6-5-turbo-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/07\/1994-chevy-6-5-turbo-diesel","title":{"rendered":"1994 chevy 6.5 turbo diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34863\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1994-chevy-6.5-turbo-diesel.jpg\" alt=\"1994 Chevy 6.5 turbo diesel\" width=\"600\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1994-chevy-6.5-turbo-diesel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1994-chevy-6.5-turbo-diesel-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Would a bad vacuum pump make the pickup spit, sputter, smoke and loose power. Or is it the catalytic converter?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>The vacuum pump on the 6.5L engine provides vacuum for operating emission controls, cruise control and heater and A\/C servos.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I do not think the vacuum pump has anything to do with the engine spitting and sputtering or the loss of power.<\/p>\n<p>If the catalytic converter was clogged, it could cause the issues you are having.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would a bad vacuum pump make the pickup spit, sputter, smoke and loose power. Or is it the catalytic converter? &nbsp; RESPONSE The vacuum pump on the 6.5L engine provides vacuum for operating emission controls, cruise control and heater and A\/C servos. That being said, I do not think the vacuum pump has anything to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/07\/1994-chevy-6-5-turbo-diesel\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1994 chevy 6.5 turbo diesel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[468,10668],"class_list":["post-32106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chevy","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-pick-up","tag-turbo-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}