Help?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 4:23 PM -0500 12/30/01, Mark Woodland wrote:

>Its typically the commuter of choice (two hours a day round trip) for my
>wife and son, and my wife suggests that such "features" are not well
>received...
>I seem to recall that the hall sender is non-obtanium separately, and only
>comes with the complete distributor.


Make sure its actually the hall sender; the Bentley contains the
procedure for dumping codes in a no-start situation, but from 5+ year
old memory of when I had my 5000, I think you just need to crank it
for 10 seconds or so, leave the ignition on, and pull the
codes(bridge the FPR for 3-4 seconds, etc.)  Keep a chart handy in
the car with what codes = what faults(SJM's site has this) and next
time it does it, pull the codes.

If you suspect the connector contacts are dirty, I highly recommend
Caig Chemical's products(order from a supplier, not from them; they
can recommend someone.)  You'd probably want DeOxit 5%.  Use a q-tip
on the male side to really get in there(or use a flush like
CaiKleen44 or alcohol, and a qtip.)  Clean the seal on the female
side, and outside of the male connector, while you have it apart.
When everything is clean, spray both connectors, remove residue from
the outsides, and plug/unplug the connectors a few times.
Respray&wipe down, plug back together.  Done.

HTH!

Brett
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