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Date:         Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:54:58 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ECU Cuts Out & Kills Engine
Comments: To: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <c280e73b1002100840q4f88a85fl27946e78bb68153@mail.gmail.com>
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I bet if you open up that ECU you'll find some cracked solder joints that have gone intermittent.

Probably best to re-flow all the joints in there and re-try it.

Jake

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>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 >

-- Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"

Crescent Beach, BC

www.thebassspa.com www.crescentbeachguitar.com http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27


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