Check the pin outs on the ECU plug per the Bentley manual. It could be a bad ground or a bad wire. Not sure why it will only start on the crappy ECU. That is the weird part but it could be a coincidence that a bad wire was just in the right position with the crappy ECU installed and when you put in the others it is on a different angle. Just a thought. Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com
miguel pacheco wrote: > I'm helping with a problem on an 86 Syncro GL. This thing has a new > Distributor, Temp II Sensor, O2 Sensor, Plugs. After installing these, > the engine would still die when it hit a bump. It was eventually > discovered that tapping on the ECU would kill the engine. To re-start, > it would require much tapping on the ECU, once again. Upon request, I > showed up on the scene with 4 used ECUs. These were all tested on my > 86 Syncro and all worked fine. Well, that engine would not start with > any of my ECUs. It would only start, eventually and with enough > tapping, on the original, shaky ECU. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Miguel > > 'In heaven all the interesting people are missing.' > - Friedrich Nietzsche > > |
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