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Subject:Re: ECU fixed! was: spare ECU?
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:31:56 -0400

At 04:11 PM 4/15/2010, mark drillock wrote:
>where a big resistor was soldered into the main board. With my ohm meter
>I determined that the resistor fed the big transistor that runs the fuel
>injectors. I added new solder to the 2 resistor legs and took the ECU

Cool!  I'd hazard a guess that the actual failure was by fatigue
though, since the joint will tend to reflow itself if it gets too hot.

IIRC that same big resistor is a problem on 1.9l ECUs as well.  It
certainly was on mine.

Yours,
d