visors / ECU vs fuel pump and more
Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 10:38 pm
Hey Bill,
I'm told the car has been totaled by the insurance company but the mechanic
doesn't own it yet. I guess there's a chance the old owner will be like me,
and buy it back from the insurance company for 25 bucks, so hang onto that
visor please.
And now the latest.
Yes, the stumbling and missing was a loose plug wire. I don't know how the
shit that wire comes off, as hard as it is to push on !!!
And now the good stuff.
When I clipped leads from the battery to the fuel pump it worked like a charm.
Apart from the less than perfect diagnostic skills of the mechanic, what does
this mean to me (and everybody else) ?
It means, just like the ECU internet site said, a lack of spark, injector
pulse, or fuel flow is often misdiagnosed as a system component problem, when
it can actually be the ECU on the ropes. It looks like the ECU fooled us
into thinking it was the fuel pump, but it was really the ECU in the process
of giving up the ghost, because a new used pump worked fine. Then a couple
of weeks later, the ECU shut completely down making itself easier to isolate.
So after dropping a couple of hundred plus on a fuel pump R & R for nothing,
how is this a good thing?
If I really want to twist the situation around...
1. I now have an apparently dead ECU for somebody to play with, that might be
resurrected with additional value
2. I now have an extra fuel pump, and of course turbo fuel pumps are very
hard to find.
3. The actual pump assembly, with bracketry, wiring, sending unit, float,
electrical connections, etc., are attached to the pump with about three
screws and a couple of clips. The pump can be separated from all that very
easily, and is a very compact 2 inches in diameter by 5 inches long. Why is
this a good thing?
4. Because those following my quest for an air-to-water intercooler know I
will need a pump !!! Generally, the quiet pumps are not rated for continuous
operation, and the pumps designed for continuous operation are noisy. This
fuel pump is of course operated continuously, is whisper quiet, is compact,
and has an output like a cheap hooker on Saturday nite. I even think I will
be able to rig it to operate from inside the washer tank turned water
reservoir. Is that hot shit or what ?
Course I hadn't planned to spend more on the frigging pump than the
intercooler, but hey, smoke em if you got em.
More to follow
Larry air-to-water bound or bust Witherspoon, from Torrance (Los Angeles)
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I'm told the car has been totaled by the insurance company but the mechanic
doesn't own it yet. I guess there's a chance the old owner will be like me,
and buy it back from the insurance company for 25 bucks, so hang onto that
visor please.
And now the latest.
Yes, the stumbling and missing was a loose plug wire. I don't know how the
shit that wire comes off, as hard as it is to push on !!!
And now the good stuff.
When I clipped leads from the battery to the fuel pump it worked like a charm.
Apart from the less than perfect diagnostic skills of the mechanic, what does
this mean to me (and everybody else) ?
It means, just like the ECU internet site said, a lack of spark, injector
pulse, or fuel flow is often misdiagnosed as a system component problem, when
it can actually be the ECU on the ropes. It looks like the ECU fooled us
into thinking it was the fuel pump, but it was really the ECU in the process
of giving up the ghost, because a new used pump worked fine. Then a couple
of weeks later, the ECU shut completely down making itself easier to isolate.
So after dropping a couple of hundred plus on a fuel pump R & R for nothing,
how is this a good thing?
If I really want to twist the situation around...
1. I now have an apparently dead ECU for somebody to play with, that might be
resurrected with additional value
2. I now have an extra fuel pump, and of course turbo fuel pumps are very
hard to find.
3. The actual pump assembly, with bracketry, wiring, sending unit, float,
electrical connections, etc., are attached to the pump with about three
screws and a couple of clips. The pump can be separated from all that very
easily, and is a very compact 2 inches in diameter by 5 inches long. Why is
this a good thing?
4. Because those following my quest for an air-to-water intercooler know I
will need a pump !!! Generally, the quiet pumps are not rated for continuous
operation, and the pumps designed for continuous operation are noisy. This
fuel pump is of course operated continuously, is whisper quiet, is compact,
and has an output like a cheap hooker on Saturday nite. I even think I will
be able to rig it to operate from inside the washer tank turned water
reservoir. Is that hot shit or what ?
Course I hadn't planned to spend more on the frigging pump than the
intercooler, but hey, smoke em if you got em.
More to follow
Larry air-to-water bound or bust Witherspoon, from Torrance (Los Angeles)
<http://rd.yahoo.com/M=190481.1393724.29 ... direct.com> www.newaydirect.com
<http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=190481 ... =678654080>
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