updates on my 200 avant w/ no power

[hayes myers]

Your ecu is en route ... all day meeting day today.  Sent you the tracking #
etc...

good luck mon


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:42 AM, David Yentema <yentemad at rider.edu> wrote:

> I tested for boost leaks, and found that there were a couple small ones
> that
> I went ahead and fixed. After this the car seemed to idle better, but the
> idle had jumped up to 1200rpm, and the car still had no torque. I also went
> ahead and seafoamed the crankcase and intake, and changed the oil, which
> further smoothed things out and cleared up that nasty lifter tick. I pulled
> codes, got hall sender misalighnment, and intake air temp sensor.
>
> Checked the timing which was off a tiny bit, and the IAT prob just needs to
> be cleaned, the ends are still soldered fine.
>
> I also pulled all the plugs, found that #1 had no gap at all, so I gapped
> it
> and put it in, and #3 was badly carbon fouled (the rest were in great
> shape,
> this car burns little to no oil that I can see :) ) but i found it rather
> odd that only 3 was fouled. further investigation revealed that the dizzy
> cap end for #3 was cracked, and the spark was arking back to the cap. so,
> only running on 4 cylinders.
>
> and I learned that even though the car was chipped at one point, someone
> bought the chipped ecu out of it a couple weeks before I bought the car,
> but
> left the 1.8bar WG spring in, I talked with the p/o and he aggreed to
> reimburse me for a new chipped ecu because he neglected to tell me it was
> put back to stock.......
>
> so, with a new chipped ecu and a dizzy cap, this car should be back in
> working order, but I just wanted to ask everyone here if they had any other
> suggestions to look at so I'm not going crazy. this car NEEDS to come home
> sunday,
>
> thanks guys!
> -Dave
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