[Shotimes] car's dead p.2

[Leigh Smith]

PCM's hardly ever go bad, but get blamed a lot.
Got a voltmeter?
Check George's famous PCM ground wire for resistance / loose connection.
Cost him $$ plenty going across country!
It's on the firewall near the fuel lines/cam sensor, just a simple screw,
very easy to pull loose.
Lee
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Hartberger" <jhartberger@mail.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] car's dead p.2


> 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
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