

| Subject: | Re: Intermittent dropouts cured |
| From: | Loren Busch |
| Date: | Sat, 6 Oct 2012 18:53:39 -0700 |
No maore takers on your question Dave, so what's the answer? On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > My '89 White Star has been misbehaving of late. It started at Buses > by the Buoy: when idling it would occasionally simply stop; but it > would start up again with no problem. > > Then a week ago in the rain I began getting an occasional dropout of > a second or two so while drivng. That night, still raining, I ran > the engine in the dark and did not observe any corona glow or spark > discharge. > > The following and subsequent days it became clear that rain was not a > factor. I was also able to see the tach drop sharply with engine > speed (automatic) but not plummet like a stone. And I have wires > running forward from T-II, AFM, T-I, Throttle switch, O2 sensor, +12 > and ground. The AFM has the factory pigtail and I monitor on the ECU > side. The only thing I'm not monitoring is the fuel injector drive. > By using a meter with a fast min-max function I was able over time to > verify that none of these was going open. > > At this point I was rather confident that it was the ECU, so I > swapped in another one (thank you Harry Hoffman). It was NOT the ECU. > > The following day I fixed the problem, which was gradually getting > worse. Any diagnosticians out there care to take a stab at what it > was before I reveal the answer? > > Yours, > David >
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