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Subject:Re: Cold start issue
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:07:04 -0700

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:21 -0400, David Beierl wrote:

> At 01:50 PM 6/6/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >Reads 3.4K ohm @ 13 degrees C, which is smack dab in the middle of
> >the expected correct reading per figure on Bentley page 24.19.
> >
> >So I must look elsewhere for cause of trouble.
>
> If you're lucky, exercising the ECU connection fixed it and you can
> go back and clean up that connector.

Nay, it did not fix it.

>
> If you're unlucky (or lucky - you pick) it's a connection problem
> i.e. bad solder inside the ECU.  If that's the case the voltage
> across the sender will be low, but the ECU will think it's
> high.

I have a second ECU. I keep it as backup because it has a
hesitation-on-acceleration issue, but since that's a different issue
than this one, I will see if it fixes this problem. From there, move
forward.

Thanks,

-- RJS