tempest411
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Discovery Bay, CA
Have you ever gone digging to try and find a problem and somewhere along the way the problem 'goes away', and you have no clue what the problem was? My '88 had an intermittent stalling problem, which eventually got to the point of being a no-start condition. I fiddled with it for several weeks. I tried all the usual checks, and everything appeared to be fine. All I can say is that I took off all the fusible links ganged up on the starter relay next to the battery, replaced the starter relay, cleaned the link terminal ends, and put them back, and it tried starting it for 100th time and it fired right up! Yet in my checks I had determined I was getting a solid 12.5V or so everywhere I was supposed to, so how could that have been a problem? This spurred me to examine the fusible links more closely. A few looked as though they'd gotten pretty hot at some point in the past. I ended up ordering some lengths of fusible link wire in different gauges and replacing them all to be on the safe side.
The only other thing I discovered, by accident, was that I had a poor connection on the crankshaft position sensor. As it idled in my driveway I was moving it around a bit to decide how to best secure the wires when it died. I could start it right back up, but moving the CPS connector ever so slightly would cause the engine to sputter or die. I don't think this could've been the cause of my no-start though...I had checked for a CPS signal at the ECU connector and I definitely had one.
It's very strange...Perhaps I never found the problem at all. Perhaps it just 'went away' for a while and will come back and surprise me one day when I have to be somewhere, like work.
Can you tell work is slow tonight???
The only other thing I discovered, by accident, was that I had a poor connection on the crankshaft position sensor. As it idled in my driveway I was moving it around a bit to decide how to best secure the wires when it died. I could start it right back up, but moving the CPS connector ever so slightly would cause the engine to sputter or die. I don't think this could've been the cause of my no-start though...I had checked for a CPS signal at the ECU connector and I definitely had one.
It's very strange...Perhaps I never found the problem at all. Perhaps it just 'went away' for a while and will come back and surprise me one day when I have to be somewhere, like work.
Can you tell work is slow tonight???