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Subject:SyncroBeast - update, still not starting
From:Carl Hansen
Date:Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:22:23 -0600

Dang her black heart anyway.  I really don't need this grief.

Here's the update.

*  We're at a point that the beast will fire a couple of times while
cranking, right at first, but will not do more than that as you hold key
cranking.

*  Battery new, and Bill's using a boost/charger anyway so maybe a moot point.

*  Contacts at both the injectors and at the ECU look clean.

*  Fuel pressure good, holds residual pressure, pressure drops if you
manually fire the injectors, pressure regulator new.

*  New plugs and coil, and many of the connections rewired due to
corrosion.  Grounds checked for corrosion and grounded if needed.

*  Plug wires in correct order (1 and 2 were reversed - oops, my fault)

*  Getting a signal to the injectors as indicated by a test light.

Still to check:

*  Run wire from Battery to Alternator to bypass connection at the starter.
Apparently this connection can get corroded.

*  Install ground wire chassis to engine.  The left side original
disintegrated in my hands.  Not sure what's left.  (At Tranny nose, at
right side?)

*  Hot wire the coil from the alternator, to check the ignition switch.

*  New Plug wires?

Any one got any thoughts??  I'm sure that I might have missed something we
did already but ..... uunnnnnhhh.  (sleep is highly overrated, don't you
think?)

TIA

Ch

Carl Hansen
952.440.2899
carl_hansen@ieee.org

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