Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:07:54 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject: Re: stalling after engine cleaned
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Warren,
I had the same thing happen. I got a lot of good advice from the list,
but none of it helped my problem. Here's what it was: check the
connection to your afm AND the connection between the pigtail and the
original connector, in other words the connection between the afm and
the firewall. If the terminals are corroded or dirty, or if there's
still water in there, your engine will lose power and stall after about
one minute of running, and will be fine when the switch is back on...
for a minute.
I had a lot of false starts (and false hope) messing with the 02 sensor
and the temp II sensor. But in the end, it was just the AFM connection.
Check it out.
Jim
On Feb 22, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Warren Lail wrote:
> Cudos to all of you guys who believed that washing my engine somehow
> interfered with the 02 sensor. I was thinking throttle body switch,
> but
> apparently I was wrong.
>
>
>
> As you may recall, after I washed my engine, and for a long time
> thereafter,
> when I start the bus and drive away it would stall. I could turn the
> ignition off and restart it and it would be fine for a while, but then
> do it
> again. Or, I could floor it and it would take off and be fine for a
> while.
> Once the engine warmed up, the problem went away until I started it
> from
> cold again.
>
>
>
> So, on the advice of several listmembers, including (if I recall
> correctly)
> Dennis Haynes, Ken Lewis, Sam Walters, and others, I began to focus on
> the
> 02 sensor. I could not find any cracks in the wiring or any defects
> of any
> kind, but when I unplugged the 02 sensor the problem went away. So
> this
> means that water is invading the system somewhere. Now where do I
> look?
>
>
>
> My 02 sensor is a Bosch, but one of those that I had to wire into to
> my old
> plug. I am going to solder the connection and put shrink-tubing on it
> (maybe even double up on the shrink stuff).
>
>
>
> How long can I run it with the 02 sensor disconnected? Strangely
> enough, it
> seems to run great with it disconnected, maybe even better than
> normal. Why
> would this be so?
>
>
>
> Warren Lail
>
> 88 Westy "Billy Bones"
>
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