[s-cars] Miss Piggy's death and resurrection

[Douglas Landaeta]

Bob,

Every electrical connection I mess with, I reinstall after cleaning with a
few drops of Caig Labs Pro Gold cleaner.
http://deoxitgold.com/?progold_info=1

No affiliation, just happy to have it in the tool box along with the dental
pick and scraper for those really green corroded ones - of course that's not
on the UrS4 - that's usually my other, older beast.

Doug

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Y'all,
>
> Perhaps you might recall Miss Piggy's Miss.  Well, she had a bad coil
> pack, identified as #3.  Replaced said #3 coil and the pig fired
> right up.  The miss at idle was gone but when trying a high boost run
> there was yet another miss at boost.  Hmmm...  Second bad coil?  I
> ordered a couple of new coils and lived with it for a few days.  A
> couple of days later the pig quit on me just as I drove into my
> driveway and pulled up to the garage.  Oh sh**, err... oh, nuts.  Now
> what?  She's dead, Jim.  I ran her on into the garage using the
> starter motor and just walked away for a while.  Think about it, Bob,
> what had you been doing which might possibly cause this.  Sleep on
> it.  About 3 AM it hit me that I had disconnected the two white B+
> connectors on the firewall a few days earlier.  Maybe one or both
> didn't get back together tightly enough and had worked their way
> apart.  Next morning I disconnected and reconnected the white
> plugs.  Bingo!  Miss Piggy fired right up again.  She has been
> resurrected from what appeared to be a rather severe case of death.
>
> OK, now I finally started miss diagnostics again.  Uh, that's
> diagnosing the miss not mis-diagnosing the problem.  I hope.  When I
> replaced coil #4 and drove the pig snot out of her the miss that I
> had been searching for went away.  Oh goodie.  Now for a REAL
> run.  WOT and _REAL_ boost.  The full time miss is still gone.  The
> miss under low boost is still gone.  BUT - when I finally got her
> running well enough to really develop some boost there is yet another
> even weaker miss which didn't even show up until I'm looking at 26 to
> 28 psig.  WTF another weak coil?  I think so.  I have ordered even
> more coils and will replace the rest of the old coils.  I think that
> will finally get the pig running well again and give me a few more
> spare coils for my Rosattobin.
>
> So, Miss Piggy is feeling much better now.  I'll see about the other
> coils in a few days.
>
> The moral to this little story?  Don't count your pigs until the
> chicken crosses the road or something like that.
>
> Bob
>
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