Date:         Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:51:44 EST
Reply-To:     Dagbear@AOL.COM
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From:         Rico Dagastino <Dagbear@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Fwd: Digifant Troubles
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I have good news.  I have completed assembly and installation of the digifant
tool.  I got the van to start this morning and the LED for the coil on the
digifant tool was not functioning.  Knowing that the van cannot run without
the coil being pulsed, I checked the connections and found the LED for the
coil to be defective (so much for mass production quality control).  With the
offending LED having been replaced, I restarted the van.  It died once and
there was a symptom I had not earlier been able to positively fix (as in
locate and not in the sense of repair).  There was a series of uncoordinated
rapid pulses of the fuel injectors and of the coil (both were indicated by
the Digifant tool and the firing of the injectors could easily be heard).
These happened after the engine had died and was at rest.  I believe these
are related to the cause of the intermittent dying as these happen regularly
after the van dies.  I think whatever is causing these pulses may be
overriding or interfering with the commands from that area of the ECU
regulating the pulsing of the coil and the injectors thus causing the
intermittent dying.  Any suggestions for further investigation so as to fix
and repair this frustrating problem would be appreciated (anything short of
car crusher or shotgun).

Thanks,
Rico Dagastino
Munford, TN
84 GL "Thing 1"
87 GL "Thing 2"

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