

| Subject: | Re: Digijet ecu failures --- Help ! |
| From: | Marshall Ruskin |
| Date: | Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:59:15 -0500 |
Well, I am not a mechanic; but I am an electrical engineer. Seems to me the first thing you should do is find out how the ecu is defective (where it's blown up!) - this will steer you towards a solution. Marshall Ruskin >I have the same problem with my 83.5 Digijet. My Westy is sitting dead in >the driveway with full-on injectors again about 300 miles after ECU was >rebuilt. Could not find fault with the harness when checking for shorts >while flexing wiring. > >Injectors read 8 to 10 ohms resistance. One source listed about 16 ohms as >spec. These are new Bosch injectors installed last year - possibly >defective and causing the ECU components to overheat? > >Looking for answers. Any clues out there? Eager to get my Westy >dependable for the cool Fall weather approaching but do not want to be >stranded in the back of beyond. > > > > > >At 08:44 PM 9/3/99 EDT, you wrote: >>My '84 Westy with the Digijet fuel injection has just blown another ECU. >>The third in 6 months! I havent had the chance to thoroughly check out the >>wiring yet but something must be causing this. The van runs faultlessly >>between failures. When they go the injectors are locked open so there must >>be a path directly to ground as the injecters are modulated to ground to >>operate. >>Has anybody else had these failures with the Digijet model? What did the >>solution turn out to be ? >>Any help will be greatly appreciated. Steve >> >
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