[Shotimes] Re: 92MTX ECM, DIS modules, and alternator replacements...

[krazgeo@comcast.net]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:15:29 -0500, Leigh Smith wrote:
>The DIS also interprets / intercepts CID and CPS signals, and it's much more >prone to fail.  They can test it's output pins for correct signal. The procedure is in >the Pobst book.
Greetings to everyone from Taiwan.  We're over here for the year of the Dog....my year.  Boy, those 747s are getting rickety.  I'm just about done flying anywhere far...the ground is a lot safer.  Another two days and I sit in Dynasty class (China Airlines upper deck..a $100 upgrade from basic coach, if you know the right travel agent!) one more time, for 10 hours, then it's back to the grind...alone.  Those Chinese flight attendents help out a lot to make it all worthwhile.  I'll be batching until the first part of March, which will be SHOTIME!!  I have a plan of attack for those SHOs at home....Lowrider donates its brakes, struts, tunes and wheels, and gets originals for the museum, and BD gets the new stuff.  The paint still needs to be color sanded, but at least I can start driving it.  I have a schedule of events and plan of attack all ready... including an extra day off from work each week.
Regarding DIS modules....I am scrounging them whenever I find them at the PnP.  I have gotten several that work, and one that didn't.  I was able to take it back.  I agree that the PCM is about the last thing to fail, and according to Probst, it can take some hits, electronically, and still will function.  I'd swap out everything that can be swapped before trying a PCM.  Does the CE light look dimmer than the airbag light when the key is on?  If so, the PCM is not grounded, and there will be no spark.  I have always had the fuel pump not work at the same time as the ground was bad, but if in this case the pump works, then all bets by me are off.
Jason has the alternator procedure correct....I was swapping alternators between the two cars about once every 3 days back in August....don't ask me why.  It doesn't take long at all....a suggestion someone made to me, which makes things a LOT faster, is to slot the battery tray holes down below, where it fastens to the inner fender structure, so that it will slide upward, off the bolts.  That allows removing it in just a minute, rather than having to totally remove those two bolts down there....they can just come out a half inch or so.
I'm being paged, so you guys have fun.  I check mail every day, but it is harder to respond...something about the ISP I am using over here and its interaction with McAfee requires me to cut and paste messages from my regular mailer to the Comcast website mailer....a hassle until I got used to it.
George