Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 07:20 pm, by: Daniel Varadi(Varadi)
Hello there Forum Members, So here is the issue, it started off with some missing at slight throttle, it was there for a month or two, after this the car began to run on what seemed like 4 cyl any how it was very rough. Now the car wont start at all ( although at One time randomly it started and ran fine until resuming its state of not starting at all). The car turns over and fires for about 2 seconds, i can flat line it and get some sound for about the same amount of time before it dies out ( 1 or 2 seconds )
- i've changed the coils/ignitors - Recapped the ecu - pulled the AFM with no change
Any help/Info would be much appreciated, my next couple of steps will be pulling the crank angle sensor to see if that makes a difference.
I have some leads and spark plugs that are on the way which will be changed over to eliminate these as a factor although I'm thinking it might be a different problem.
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 07:05 pm, by: Daniel Varadi(Varadi)
Got Her Running again, Turned out to be the water temperature sensor having a bad connection or gone bad. Still running Rough, seems to be clicking coming for the Left Hand Distributor.
P.S Working with a torch in the dark is no fun =/ But at least she is not idling although a little rough, at time it ran great for about 10 seconds at very rare and random intervals, am hoping to replace the distributor cap to see what happens.
Saturday, June 07, 2014 - 01:41 pm, by: Daniel Varadi(Varadi)
Bump- WEll the unfortunate reality Is that its now not running again with the same symptoms. i changed the water temp sensor and again nothing same problem.
It Does start and run randomly works fine and then back to the same turn over for a second and cut out.
crazy crazy crazy.
I'm just about to change the ecu around with another to see if that's the problem, will post back soon
Monday, June 09, 2014 - 12:21 am, by: Daniel Marshall(Ydass)
When you desoldered the old cap you probably pulled out a small track as I've found this on 2 diy ecus lately. Under the leaking cap it is very hard to remove without damaging it and 1uz ecus are the worst in doing this