notsofine89
Registered User
Had the balancer (put in a BHJ) and crank sensor replaced by a Ford dealer after a 3-time crank bolt failure. 250 miles later, the car starts sputtering and dying again, acting the same way it did when the crank bolt broke. Crank bolt is still there this time...<I>a different</I> FORD dealer said balancer/sensor is fine, Crank bolt still intact, and said ECC-IV brain was the problem. Unfortunately, the part was "obsolete". At the advice of another poster here, I got the car the hell away from the dealer (good advice) and had it towed to my folks place.
If the car has been sitting overnight, it will start and run smooth for about 3 minutes. Then the tack starts jumping around wildly, after which it will sputter and die. It will refuse to start thereafter until it cools off.
Since then, I've swapped out the DIS module. Same thing. Sent the EEC-IV to SIA electronics in Illinois. Just got off the phone with their people...they can't find anything wrong with the unit.
The car is a 90 minute drive from me at my dads place. I'll be going home to reinstall the ECC-IV, then try to "pull codes" from it.
Has anyone seen this situation before? Any thoughts? When I head home to where the car is, I'll have a limited time to fix it. The folks want this thing out of their driveway....
Thanks!
Mike
If the car has been sitting overnight, it will start and run smooth for about 3 minutes. Then the tack starts jumping around wildly, after which it will sputter and die. It will refuse to start thereafter until it cools off.
Since then, I've swapped out the DIS module. Same thing. Sent the EEC-IV to SIA electronics in Illinois. Just got off the phone with their people...they can't find anything wrong with the unit.
The car is a 90 minute drive from me at my dads place. I'll be going home to reinstall the ECC-IV, then try to "pull codes" from it.
Has anyone seen this situation before? Any thoughts? When I head home to where the car is, I'll have a limited time to fix it. The folks want this thing out of their driveway....
Thanks!
Mike