Hmmm, a flame thrower as a trouble shooting tool. Why didn't I think of that? I would go ahead and CHANGE the TEMPII sensor. Good Luck and Drive Safely Ken Lewis 86 Crewcab, 60 356 T-5 http://Neksiwel.20m.com/ On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:34:02 -0400 Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> writes: > I have a customers 89 Cabriolet that I am trying to troubleshoot. It > is a > Digifant II. It will start and then immediately die. It acts like > the > engine is flooding out. One wierd thing that it does is if you heat > the > coolant temp sensor (tempII) with a flame the car will run. However > the > temp sensor checks out OK when I check it with a meter, and also at > the > wiring harness plug. I have checked the timing, spark, fuel > pressure (seems > a little lower than stock but only 4 psi low) and the engine wiring > harness. > Everything seems to be right but the car still won't run. Any > ideas? Is > there a way to get a code out of the DigifantII ECU? The car has a > code > machine connector by the shifter but I can't get my vag-com software > to > communicate with this ECU. Any advice would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Ken Wilford > John 3:16 > http://www.vanagain.com > Phone: (856)-327-4936 > Fax: (856)-327-2242 > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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