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MikeM
08-13-2002, 11:32 PM
Well, My car is still not running yet. The only thing left to do is swap the computer. My mechanic took my old computer out and noticed some bad grounds. He cleaned those up and continued to pull out my computer. He opened it up and noticed that the inside had corrosion dust all over it. He cleaned that up and re-installed it to see if that was causing the problem. Nope. Didn't fix a thing. He says tomorrow he will be swapping out computers to test it with a known working one. If this fails, then it must be a bad wire in one of the harnesses somewhere.

Now for the good news. When I asked him what my bill was up to (it has been in the shop for weeks, and god knows how much labour has been put into it), he said all of it was being done for FREE!!!!!! It was like music to my ears. I guess it won't be costing me as much in labour as I thought.

I'll keep you gents posted as new things come up and new things get eliminated.

Thanx for reading about my woes,

-Mike

SeanMatteson
08-14-2002, 07:48 PM
Mike,

It sounds like you're narrowing it down to a probable cause. Good luck. If you end up needing that EEC from me, just let me know.

Best regards,

Sean

MikeM
08-14-2002, 10:01 PM
ABOUT ~~~~~~ TIME!!!!!!!!

They finally narrowed it down. It has turned out to be the Computer. Sean, looks like I will be stealing that off you after all. They said it ran for 2.5 hours without a lick of problems.

You guys have no idea how good it feels to finally be able to drive my baby soon......espacially after it has not been driven since March. I hope I don't hurt the poor gal the first day I get it back.

Sean,

I will be e-mailing you very shortly with some details.