[Shotimes] car's dead p.2
Jason Hartberger
jhartberger@mail.com
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:14:53 -0500
Ok, so here's what I've figured out so far. The battery is fine, the
alternator is fine, tested both in and out of the car, but it seems that
any electrical load wants to kill the engine. It will idle ok 90% of the
time with no lights, no defrost, no radio, no A/C and heat, no fog
lights. As soon as I turn any of those on, the engine will dip like it
normally does but instead of the idle coming back up like it's supposed
to, it just stays low and dies. I ordered a new camshaft sensor
because... well hell, they're cheap and I probably could use a new one
anyway but I'm pretty sure it's my computer now. The computer is in
charge of adjusting idle settings to respond to loads, right? Well, I
don't think it's doing that, and I think it might have happened when the
positive battery cable worked its way off the post after a bad bump and
was intermittently contacting the terminal; I think it might have
scrambled the computer.
Does anybody have a spare D4U computer?
Jason