[Shotimes] car's dead p.2

clubairth@bellsouth.net clubairth@bellsouth.net
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:11:28 -0600


Jason:
 It sounds like the IAB? Maybe clean it or swap it out? The PCM is pretty 
trouble free.
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> 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