What a fckin day.
Spent the first half of the day cussing Steve. Because after we talked this morning, and he sent me the tune, he had to go do something. Said he’d call me back in 5 minutes.
Then after waiting about an hour, I couldn’t get him to return the texts I sent him.
Dead in the water.
After about an hour and a half, I get an email from him wondering WTF.
Turns out I accidentally blocked him.
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Once back on track, we struggled for the next several hours trying to get my janky ass ECU to start my engine.
one little sputter, then dead. No more injectors.
Disgusted, I tell him that there’s clearly a dead injector driver, and nothing he or I could do about that today. We say good bye.
I take the ecu out of the car, and open it up to see if I could see evidence of a burned i/c.
What I find, is that the ribbon cable that connects the two ms3x boards together was not fully pushed on its pin socket. MOF it was barely making contact.
I push it back on, take the opened ecu over to the car, hook it up, and test the injectors.
Now they work. I turn the key, the engine coughs and sputters,....then dies.
Then on my own,...for the next 60-90 minutes, can only manage to get the thing to lug and sputter for about 3-5 seconds each time I try to start it.
And basically pour gasoline in the engine.
After discovering a fairly large oil leak ( as evidenced by the plate sized puddle forming under the engine) Loose oil line fitting.
Then another puddle under the transmission. Another loose line fitting. ( much harder to tighten,...caused much loud bad words to be coming from out my mouth).
” Do you unnerstand the words comin‘ out my mouth”
The good thing from all of this is that once the car started running,...the trans fluid left the pan...( and went wherever it goes when the front pump is doin what it’s supposed to do) So,...the 2:30 amd can go fck himself.
The bad thing is that the car didn’t start. 4 of the 6 plugs were fouled. The other 2 , (2&6) weren’t firing.
If this was random,.....".like, 1, and 3,....I might be able to blame the coils.....but 2and 6 are sisters...the likelihood that it’s a dead coil times two when we’re talkin’ sisters....something is wrong in the ecu...again.
I pushed my luck with Kate today. Went way over my allotted time to fck off in the garage, when I was supposed to be helping her in the yard. The likelihood that I’ll get one minute to test to see if it’s a bad coil, or a bad output will be between slim and none.