Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:26:27 -0700
Reply-To: Pat Spragge <spraggepat@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Pat Spragge <spraggepat@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Engine died, ecu quick look
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Alistair,
I think we are all very interested because it is something we’ve all experienced onetime or another. Brings out the Sherlock Holmes in us.
> On Mar 29, 2020, at 6:15 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Back home for bite to eat and I’m heading back to work and van this evening. Don’t think I’ll be working on the van much, I have parts to finish. The damn drone wheel hub, axle, and brake carrier assembly was designed by engineering grad students.
>
> You know what that means don’t you? Silly tolerances and consequently the assembly needs, as the english would say, some amount of fettling.
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> Plus I have to finish up the Delrin parts for another client.
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> There really wasn’t much of a bump, maybe a pothole, on the turn into alley. Right hand turn if that makes any diff :-)
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> As it stands right now, I believe I have fuel to and out of the injectors. I could get no spark visible when spark plug led to spare plug , laying on case.
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> Swapping an old janky coil ( it’s what I had) made no diff.
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> The ecu connector tests I did a la Bentley all were a pass grade.
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> I still have this nagging feeling I’m missing something big. But what I’m left with is hall sensor and ecu.
>
> What bugs me is the van was running quite nicely, no hints of anything to come.
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> Again, all of you, I’m overwhelmed by the great help given so quickly. I think I’d be on my knees crying if it wasn’t for the list.
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> Cheers
>
> Ab
>
>
>> On Mar 29, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I can't remember all of the original details from that rainy night yesterday that Alistair went through....but in my personal life experience, there is always some kind of bump (however minor) when entering an alley from a street. Hence, my speculation. And only takes a minor bump in the road to break an already compromised electrical connection, I know that for sure. (This whole discussion is so refreshing....given the dire realities happening around us.)
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>> On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 3:34:34 PM PDT, Gene P <olgreywoof@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> < But the question still remains...why did things fail after a bump in the road when entering alley? Maybe we need Inspector Columbo!!...he was always good at this kind of stuff. (Actually for me as a bone-head novice mechanic, it's super cool to witness experts attacking the problem from multiple angles.) >
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>> Not a master mechanic here, but a sometimes wannabe Columbo – observing that Alistair’s original description of the problem said nothing about a bump in the road. That was introduced by a response that possibly a turn into an alley involved a bump and then several have speculated about what the bump did. Speculations about the speculative bump.
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