[V8] Spoke too soon

Ed Kellock ekellock at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 21:13:42 PST 2018


MAF?

On Feb 25, 2018 9:56 PM, "Tom Laplante" <toml99 at todomundo.com> wrote:

> Well, I was psyched the Lago car was running better and better after
> running some gas/treatment thru it.  Took it up to Mt Baker last week and
> full throttle once again felt like full throttle. Still had a slightly
> rough idle, but was hoping more gas/treatment would burn off the carbon
> from driving around with loose plugs for years.
>
> Took it to hardware store yesterday morning and when I went to restart it
> started then sounded rough, then totally odd, it ran up to 1500rpm, then
> died.  Today I decided to swap out what I thought were the cheap chinese
> flywheel sensors, but found OEM ones. Knowing I'd had them out before, dug
> thru folder and found a receipt from '04 from the dealer that I had
> purchased a speed sensor for $175 and only replaced that one because of
> cost(put it in reference hole).  So pulled out all the one's I had and
> tested them cold/with heatgun....Threw 2 of the 6 in garbage.  Had 2 newer
> ones in holder from a parts car and I had them in in a record 45 min
> including jacking.  Ha.  Project was made easier as I remember doing that
> for first time in '04 and it took at least a day, so I anti siezed bolts
> and barely snugged them up and had it out in literally 5 min(took seemingly
> forever to get the connectors back in).Still no start.  Girlfriend came by
> and checked for spark and nothing.  Fuel mist was coming out of plug hole
> so it's just no spark.  Gonna clean grounds(since its been sitting outside
> for awhile) and just for fun throw in another ECU since knee bolster is out
> before I get out the meter and start tracing electrical stuff.  Checked all
> fuses deemed worthy.  Car never has a code and I surprisingly get Hall
> sender code, but I've verified these cars can start/run with no hall, so
> confident that's not my no spark.  Anything easy I might be missing?  I
> love this car why?
>
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