I've gotten quite a few ECU offers over the last day; thank you all! I wanted to describe my symptoms again to see if anyone has clever ideas that I haven't thought of yet, for problems with my '87 Westy with stock 2.1L: Typically, when the engine is cold, it will stall (if at idle) then start right up again once or twice in the first 10 minutes of running. When the engine is under load, it's as if someone has briefly switched off the ignition key -- the van lurches and _sometimes_, the tach drops instantly to zero. When the engine starts to run again, ~1 second later, the tach goes back where it belongs. Sometimes the tach doesn't drop to zero. It generally runs better after the engine is warm, and worse after it's been raining. Because of the tach's behaviour, I am thinking electrical/ignition. So, I have wiggled all connections and tapped components with a screwdriver with the engine running - no changes. (Here I'm talking about the distributor, coil, main relay, fuel injection, computer) I have swapped both the distributor and the AFM with used replacements. No change. I have checked the voltage difference of all the grounds with the engine running-- again, all OK. So I'm thinking ECU. Any other ideas? I just thought -- idle control unit or throttle switch maybe? Grounds? Thanks to all, --tabe johnson Vancouver BC ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca |
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