He's not in Perth - but camrygt had a look at my stuffed ECU.
Nice bloke to deal with.
Due to the recent problems ive been having, that have slowly gotten worse and worse, and now, i cant drive my car anymore, im looking for a place in Perth that can repair it...
ill open it up when i get home (at tafe at the moment) and see if i can see any leaky caps or dry solder joints, but i doubt ill be able to see anything, and ill fix even less.
just after a place that i can drop it off, get it repaired, and pick it up day or week later, whatever. kind of urgent.
Elmo.
He's not in Perth - but camrygt had a look at my stuffed ECU.
Nice bloke to deal with.
thanks mate, will send him PM now.
Elmo.
camrygt cant help me, my problem isnt leaky caps...
its a contact problem at the front of the ECU, at the plugs.
once plugged in, the motor will run like shit, i think on 4/5 cylinders.
if you LIFT the plug (push it upwards) the car rights itself and runs smoothly.
if you push the plug DOWN, it stalls.
ive taken it apart, and found a dry solder joint at the MAP sensor pin, which ive fixed, which fixed the main problem, but this is still here, i cant see any broken wires/pins etc. etc. and im at a loss of what to do.
Elmo.
resolder every pin on the offending plugs.. bit of heat and some good flux core solder.. should work... maybe..
just cos you can't see a problem doesn't mean the joint isn't cracked
no cracks in the PCB itself?
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fixed the problem, it was the pin not contacting properly, cylinder number 5.
the problem wasnt inside the ECU though, it was on the plug side, a rather large chunk of plastic was jammed into the pin and causing it to not contact properly.
for the life of me, i dont know how it got in there!
although im glad this has happened, it fixed my intermittent problem with the MAP signal
Cheers to everyone
Elmo.
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