[s-cars] Malfunctioned Coil(s)

[DOUGLAS LANDAETA]

See http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/20vboost.html for well written
procedures.
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: wmahoney at disk.com (Bill Mahoney)
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:24 am
Subject: [s-cars] Malfunctioned Coil(s)

> >Kevin reports:
> >One or more of my coils are shot. Is there a sequence of steps to
> taketo
> >see which one it is to avoid testing every one. Also, for someone as
> >unmechanical as myself, is this something you can do on your own
> without
> >problems?
>
> Kevin,
> I would suspect a POS/PSO (power stage output) before a coil.
> Assuming that symtoms are a missing cylinder, sequently disconnect
> eachinjector.  When idle does not get worse while wire is disconnected
> that's the culprit cylinder.
> There are two pso's with 3 connections on each under the black plastic
> firewall cover.  Since you have 5 cylinders that leaves one good open
> connection with which to switch the bad cylinder connection to the
> previously unused pso connection.  Search the archives or maybe
> someonecan point you to this procedure.  Its pretty easy IIRC.
> And cheaper
> than a $275 pso from the stealer.
> If it is a coil I think Hap may have been overserved a few of these
> recently.
> HTH
> Bill m
>
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