[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