[Shotimes] Cutting out???

[Bob]

Hmmm.  That's what I thought should happen.  Basically, that the EEC would
sense the sensor's failure and use a stored value, but that's not what
actually happened.  Try disconnecting it and reconnecting it on a switch
while driving.  It was an intermittent fault until I safety wired the
connector on.  Since then, I've had no issues.

	-- Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Porter
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 8:03 AM
>
> FWIW, I had forgotten to reconnect the MAF connector a couple of
> times after
> working on it and the car started/ran fine, just had a CEL.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Bob
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 1:42 AM
> To: Shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Cutting out???
>
> I also had something similar happen when the MAF connector was loose, but
> the CEL came on at the same time as the car was cutting in and
> out.  The CEL
> turned out to be a MAF undervoltage code, so if you're not getting a CEL,
> it's probably something else.
>
> 	-- Bob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike
> > Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:48 PM
> >
> > Strange symptom:  while driving down the road the engine
> momentarily dies,
> > tach dives, then immediately recovers.  Somewhat comical,
> > lurching down the
> > road.  It will stall at idle, but start right up again.  Also, it
> > is erratic
> > in nature; I'm only driving short distances till I get it
> fixed, and some
> > trips it won't do it at all.  No apparent consistency; hot, cold,
> > or between.
> > Since the tach dives, I'm thinking its electrical in nature; but
> > doesn't throw
> > a CEL or code.  The crank sensor was changed at a 60K about 20K
> > miles ago, but
> > I've had one go out and the symptoms were quite different.  Since
> > it always
> > starts right up, probably not a cam sensor.  What happens if the
> > DIS becomes
> > erratic; or has anyone had a crank sensor do this sort of thing?
> > Any other
> > ideas?  ('91)  No recent maintenance, that might have caused
> this, by the
> > way.
> > Mike
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