>At 21:38 5/3/2000, David Ricketts wrote: >>The engine died while driving home today. While trying to accelerate in >>2nd or 3rd the engine lost power all of a sudden. I stop and gave it >>full gas and it would rev a little then die and then rev a little until >>it finally died. It didn't sound like it was missing, but rather >>running normal then stopped running for a second then started again. I >>turned of the engine and immediately restarted and it ran fine (BTW the >>engine was warm). Not sure where to look?? > >Electrical connector at distributor -- they break and short out. No >promise, but it would cause that sort of trouble. Bad connection at >ECU. *Maybe* throttle switch -- should close at idle and full >throttle. Bad connection at ignition module or coil. If 1.9l, bad idle >stabilizer box or connections thereto. Prolly lots of other things. Get a >digitool from Darrel Boehler to help sort out possibilities -- it shows >coil pulses, FI pulses, fuel pump power, throttle switch; AFM, O2, T-II, >T-I sensor outputs. A dodgy AFM connector will also appear exactly as above. I know someone (no names!) who changed their air filter & had this problem. The engine would idle just fine & rev to about 1500 RPM before losing power and dying. Turns out the AFM connector was left off. Duhh! Pete C -- Peter Cassidy, pcassidy@apple.com Sr. Test Dev. Engineer +353-21-284316 WW Operations Apple, Cork, Ireland. |
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