[Shotimes] ECC Codes...

[Rich Edelman]

I got my car back from the mechanic on Friday, after the valve lash adjustment 
was completed and a new woodruff key and timing sprocket were installed. 
(Thanks to everyone for your help on that!) Anyway, it drove fine Friday 
afternoon and then started missing while driving, and it doesn't like to idle 
either. I was going down the road at about 50mph, and all of a sudden the 
RPMs dropped to around 1200 and then picked up, dropped again, and then the 
car died. Threw it in neutral and she started right back up. Ran fine until I 
got to a light and it started to idle oddly. Again the rpms would drop, pick 
up, and drop. It idled like that until I hit the gas to go, and then died 
completely. Refused to start again unless I pushed the go-pedal to the floor, 
and then she started right back up. Stalled on me again as I turned to go 
down a side street, I was going maybe 10 or 15mph. Car would start and idle a 
few seconds and then die again. Finally did get to nurse it back home.

I checked the codes on it this morning, and did not get a thing. Not even a 
542!! I'm thinking the mechanic screwed something up, like the crank position 
sensor. Or maybe there is a vacuum leak somewhere? Perhaps the intake isn't 
properly torqued?

Any ideas? The car is back at the shop right now, grr, and right now I'd much 
rather have it here doing the work on it myself if only I knew what was 
wrong!

Rich

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 06:50 pm, Tim Grattan wrote:
> Well, I was driving my '94 MTX the other night and ran into some trouble.
> While sitting in a parking lot, the engine slowly started to die and in
> about 5 seconds of trying to idle the RPMs dropped and the car stalled.  I
> tried restarting the car and would run into the same problem.  I waited
> about 10 minutes and all was well for the trip back to my house.  This
> afternoon I pulled the codes to see if it left anything in memory from last
> night.
>
> The hard codes I got were:
> 114 - ACT Out of Range
>
> Memory Codes:
> 215 - Coil 1 Primary Circuit Failure
> 542 - Fuel Pump Secondary Circuit Failure (another site lists this as "fuel
> pump open, bad ground")
>
> I am wondering what exactly the 215 code represents- DIS failure, coil
> failure or wiring problem?  This is the first time I have pulled codes
> since I got the car in July and haven't driven the car much since I need to
> take care of a few other things that I just haven't had the time to handle,
> so I'm not even sure the memory codes are current issues or just left over
> ones from some previous issue.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Grattan
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