[Shotimes] Got a problem....totally off the wall Long, so you'll have no follow up questions

[Carl Prochilo]

"Real men don't need code scanners"

"Code scanner, code scanner?  We don't need no stinkin' code
scanner!!!"
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

van Oss said:
> Lots of parts stores will read the EEC codes for free.  Buying your
> own
> scanner is smart.  Please let us know what codes you get.  I suspect
> something related to EGR.
>
> You verified that both connectors are firmly plugged into the
> keyless
> module?
>
> VO
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Fourchy" <krazgeo@comcast.net>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:26 AM
> Subject: [Shotimes] Got a problem....totally off the wall Long, so
> you'll
> have no follow up questions
>
>
> Hi All...
>
> Lowrider has a problem.  It doesn't seem to affect its performance,
> but if I
> don't
> do something about it, there might be permanent engine damage, only
> because
> I have
> NO idea what is happening.  Since the car is coming around the final
> turn of
> its
> lifespan, I don't want to ignore this problem and possibly do
> something to
> it that
> would require a huge amount of repairing.  I'm comparing the
> potential
> damage here
> to what could have happened if I hadn't caught that EGR tube back in
> '96
> that had
> just sprung a leak, and was starting to melt all the cables, speedo,
> throttle, and
> cruise, due to the leaking hot exhaust gas ( I think the situation
> is
> similar....leaking hot gasses somewhere).
>
> It's been sitting for 11 months, as you know, waiting to have the
> rear third
> of the
> body attached and fully assembled.  It was run periodically during
> that
> time, for a
> few minutes every couple of weeks or so, just to keep the oil up in
> the top.
> It has
> been on the road for the last week, adding another quick thousand
> miles
> around town
> and on the commute.  I took it to the muffler shop this morning, to
> get a
> new hangar
> installed in the right rear corner for the right side muffler...the
> SLO rear
> end
> didn't have any hangars on the right side.  After that was done, it
> was a
> lot
> quieter (no rattling and buzzing where the muffler was banging
> against the
> frame),
> and sounded more or less normal.  But then I noticed that whenever
> I'd give
> it any
> kind of substantial throttle, like I would if accelerating on an
> on-ramp to
> the
> freeway, it makes a hissing sound that I can hear above the quieter
> (now
> that the
> rattling exhaust is out of the picture) snarl of the engine.  (I can
> hear it
> in the
> garage, too...just at idle if I blip the throttle...the sound
> reflects off
> the wall
> and the other car next to it.)  If I stay on it in 3rd or 4th, to
> get up to
> cruising
> speed fast, to go directly out to the fast lane, the CE light will
> come on
> after 10
> or 15 seconds.  ...Yes....this is the first time the CE light has
> come on
> for an
> unknown reason.....so that proves it was made by humans!  That has
> happened
> twice,
> just today.  If I stay out of excessive throttle, the CE light
> doesn't come
> on, and
> if it does come on, it will go out after 5 minutes or so of gentle,
> city-street
> driving.  There is no change of performance of any kind when the
> light comes
> on or
> goes off.
>
> I went to the FAQ, and looked at the 2 digit codes that the '90
> computer can
> generate.  There is nothing in the codes that light up the CE light
> that
> would go
> along with some kind of leak of gasses (the noise I think I hear)
> that I can
> see.
>
> I've never had to deal with a CE light, except for the PfH, which
> was a
> different
> thing entirely....that was a lack of power to the computer and
> CCRM/IRCM.
> So I know
> of the procedures to get the codes, but I have never done it...years
> ago I
> saw it
> done with the paper clip.  I'm going to get one of those code
> readers the
> FAQ
> recommends, unless someone else has a better recommendation.  It
> needs to go
> to the
> dealer anyway, to fix the keyless entry.  That quit while it was in
> my
> garage, for
> no reason....the fuses are good, but it is dead.  But that wasn't
> going to
> happen
> until the black car comes home, in 10 days or so.  And, like I said,
> I don't
> want to
> hurt anything by driving it with this noise/leak if I can keep a
> small
> problem from
> becoming big, like crank cancer gets.   (No, it's not a banging
> noise, it's
> a
> hissing sound, sort of like a 60s/70s big engine running through a
> single
> small
> exhaust system....)
>
> If anyone has had something like this happen in the past, I'd
> appreciate it
> if you'd
> share it with me.  I'm parking it until I can figure it out.
>
> I have blipped the throttle while leaning over the throttle body
> (with the
> hood up).
>  I heard extra hissing type noises coming from more or less
> everywhere; that
> was the
> same noise.  It would be very hard to isolate it, since my engine is
> a bit
> more
> noisy than most, due to its mileage, even at idle.
>
> Thanks..
>
> George
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