ECU Checker Switch
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 1:33 am
Here's a trick I learned in detox......
I recently went through a hellish situation where I hired a highly regarded mechanic's shop to sniff my exhaust prior to my having to drive my modified car through the mandatory emissions check. They said I would flunk and that my O2 sensor was bad. They treplaced it and then started monkeying with everything until they gave me four separate CHECK ENGINE codes, my car ran like crap and after nine weeks of screwing around, they gave up. I fixed everything they screwed up, but I got tired of playing with the two ECU code checker plugs stuck way up under the dash. I bought a tiny project box and two tiny slide switches at Radio Shack. I glued the tiny switches into the tiny project box, soldered the wires to the switches, then embedded the whole works in Outdoor Goop to make it "solid state" I then glued the tiny project box to the dash door above and to the left of the cig lighter. Now when I get a CHECK ENGINE light, I just flip a couple of switches. I can reset my ECU in one minute without disconnecting the battery. If I had it to do over again I would have skipped the project box and just set the switches into the recess on the back side of the little dash door.
Bill Robinson
92 Legacy Turbo
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I recently went through a hellish situation where I hired a highly regarded mechanic's shop to sniff my exhaust prior to my having to drive my modified car through the mandatory emissions check. They said I would flunk and that my O2 sensor was bad. They treplaced it and then started monkeying with everything until they gave me four separate CHECK ENGINE codes, my car ran like crap and after nine weeks of screwing around, they gave up. I fixed everything they screwed up, but I got tired of playing with the two ECU code checker plugs stuck way up under the dash. I bought a tiny project box and two tiny slide switches at Radio Shack. I glued the tiny switches into the tiny project box, soldered the wires to the switches, then embedded the whole works in Outdoor Goop to make it "solid state" I then glued the tiny project box to the dash door above and to the left of the cig lighter. Now when I get a CHECK ENGINE light, I just flip a couple of switches. I can reset my ECU in one minute without disconnecting the battery. If I had it to do over again I would have skipped the project box and just set the switches into the recess on the back side of the little dash door.
Bill Robinson
92 Legacy Turbo
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