[V8] ECU grounding, etc. (abridged)

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Oh, sure.  It's not like you had a baby or something...uhh...er, yes you
did-- two of 'em, even  ;-)

As to the V8 diagnostics -- as Bill C. would say, "I feel your pain..."  or
at least I can relate to it...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Coleman, David" <David.Coleman at blackrock.com>
To: "Ingo Rautenberg" <i.rautenberg at waratap.com>; "Jeremy Ward"
<jward.v8 at gmail.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: [V8] ECU grounding, etc. (abridged)


> Elapsed time has been over a month, yes, but I've had precious few
> opportunities to get into any real diagnosis.  The only thing done prior
> to the current condition was a simple 4.2 engine swap and complete body
> repaint.
>
> Of course that's tongue in cheek, but I've got no left over sensors or
> wires, and dangit everything  seems to be where it's supposed to be.
> And all signs have pointed to the ECU wiring, which wasn't messed with
> for either job.
>
> Yup, great spark on both sides.  Tell y'all what I'll do.  I'll swap out
> the TPS and the MAF tonight w/ "hoped to be good" used ones.  Perhaps
> I'm barking up the wrong path altogether, mixaphorically speaking...
>
> -dc-
>
>
> > Refresh my memory, please.   Seems like this has been a quest
> > for over a
> > month now.  Anything happen just prior to your V8 running
> > rough and sooper rich?  Good spark from both distributors
> > /wires?  No water ingress into the TPS?  Did you swap out the
> > MAF and/ or TPS?  You patched up that hardline hose leak to
> > the CC valve, right?
> >
> > I went through a long, drawn out diagnostic for over a month
> > with the urq a few months back and missed something that I
> > should have figured out quickly because I discounted the
> > problem part -- until I did a little bit of disassembly.
> >
> > My sympathies,
> >
> > Ingo
> >
> >
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