Weird MC engine problem
james accordino
ssgacc at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 9 16:23:58 EDT 2002
If I can provide no help, which I can't-WELCOME BACK!
Sounds like you've got quite an odd problem on your
hands.
Jim Accordino
--- Phil Payne <quattro at isham-research.com> wrote:
> Before I start - this car is a dog.
>
> It's an Audi 200TQ (5000) with an MC engine run by a
> MAC14. It was off the road for an
> unspecified period, believed to be long, and then
> had some kind of electrical event.
> Basically every component on the auxiliary relay
> panel with a transistor in it was fried.
>
> So were a few other things - like the central
> locking pump ...
>
> The ignition switch is also extremely suspect and
> the tachometer and trip computer are dead.
>
> Anyway - I've gutted and rebuilt the electrics. The
> diagnostics run and the ECU stores no
> codes. The car will start and idle from cold - duty
> cycle is 50%ish at idle, ISV current 440
> milliamps.
>
> If you try and put any appreciable load on the car,
> it dies instantly and won't restart. At
> this time, an attached code-pulling LED illuminates
> permanently. If you cycle the ignition,
> it comes back on with ECU power.
>
> I've swapped the ECU and coil pack for known good
> ones and tested the swapped ones in another
> car. Also the control pressure regulator. The fuel
> pump has been swapped - pressures and
> flows are within specification.
>
> --
> Phil Payne
> http://www.isham-research.com
> +44 7785 302 803
> +49 173 6242039
>
>
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