[s-cars] Blown ECU 15A Fuse

[manuelsanchez at starpower.net]

Bill,

Nuts, I hope it's not the coils, as I was thinking these transplants were relatively new (see my previous posts about using Edwins old pack).

When a coild goes, foes it go progressively, or is all or nothing, at least with regard to the blowing fuse symptom?  When my old coils (the ones that really were old, bout 115,000 miles on them) went they stumbled but they didn't blow fuses, least I don't remeber them doing this.

Maybe it's time to put my old (10k mile) pack back on. Edwins red head looks oh so pretty though, DAMN.

This is startng to be like the old days when I had my TR-6 (Do you do this with your TR-3 Paulie), I'd carry around all sorts of spare parts in the trunk---just in case.  Ms Piggy has quite alot of room in the back of the wagon for all those extra's, even a spare tranny I suppose.  Have you had occasion to remove your tranny recently Sr. Baloney?

-manny



---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:04:23 -0600
>From: "Bill Mahoney" <wmahoney at disk.com>  
>Subject: [s-cars] Blown ECU 15A Fuse  
>To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Cc: <manuelsanchez at starpower.net>
>
>   Sr. Manny,
>
>   IIRC this is an end of life symptom of coil. 
>
>   My stupid way to determine which one is bad, is to
>   disconnect one coil, try a new fuse, turn ignition
>   on.
>
>   If fuse blows again… it’s not that coil.
>
>   Repeat until the fuse does NOT blow and the coil
>   that you have disconnected is the bad one.
>
>   It could be a pinched wire too but a recent dyno day
>   could have finally pushed a coil over the edge.
>
>   Cheap fix is to replace the one coil, but far better
>   would be to redo all of em or try the 034 uber coil
>   pack for about the same price, but supposedly works
>   well and eliminates the POS’s.  All new coils make
>   the motor run great.
>
>   HTH
>
>   Bill~seemingly in Fargo today~M
>
>   Ps   someone say phest?
>
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