I got my present one last fall at a junk yard for $45, and it worked alright. I wish there were someway to know if that's what it is without getting another one. Maybe I'm too cheap. Charles '85 Westy At 08:20 AM 5/1/2003 -0700, mark drillock wrote: >I see 85 Vanagons at the junkyard all the time. ECUs are $35 there. I am >going there in 10 minutes and they had a 85 there a couple weeks ago. > >Mark > >Charles McGehee wrote: > > > > Thanks, Aaron, that's really interesting. Mine's the same way. It does it > > in neutral, too. I ran it up for my mechanic and he fiddled around, > > disconnected a variety of things to see what would affect it, but nothing > > did. I'm hoping it's not the ECM, but there's no way to test it without > > putting in another, but I'm not inclined to want to go to that expense > > without knowing more specifically. Bentley gives a number of VOM tests on > > the ECM connector and everything checks out, not that that necessarily > > means nothing is wrong. > > > > So what did you do? It sounds like you've just kept on driving. I don't > > look forward to that, especially for long distances. > > > > Charles > > '85 Westy > > > > |
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