ecu...help
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ecu...help
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My '91 (b13, fi...i think....duh), has 86K miles, and recently the 'check engine' light came on... at the same time, my tach quit registering. I arrived at my destination, killed the engine, and then started that sweet thing back up. Voila!.. the c/e light was out and the tach worked. So I went inside... did my duty for a couple of hours... when I came back out, she wouldn't start. Oh yeah, she turned over and finally 'caught', but when I gave her just a little gas... she gagged and coughed like this was her death bed.
Well, after $400/worth of 'diagnostics' at the local-yocal Mazda dealer, she's still sittin'. They can't figure her out. They thought it might be the ECU... to the tune of $1,000.
Hmmm.... maybe... perhaps...$1,000 here, $1,000 there. They changed her plugs, her air filter, checked the cat-converter and the exhaust.
Now, she'll start and idle, but a bit roughly. And when I gently tap on ye' olde accelerator... she responds like a wife in curlers... "Go away, jerk... I have a headache."
Man-o-man, when she was running, she screamed bloody murder. You know what I mean... doin' 70+ on the interstate and some kid with a 'Stang comes along. Fine. Just let me kick her down a few gears and whammo... I mean a launch into hyperspace!!!
But now, she sits there, sleek and sexy, like a paperweight was meant to be.
Any thoughts? Is it the ECU? I'm sure I could find one out there somewhere (once I pull it and get the service ####'s).
Forgive the breach of protocol... but you can reach me at gfisher1@parkland.edu with input, all the serious elements of which will be greatly appreciated.
7adict
My '91 (b13, fi...i think....duh), has 86K miles, and recently the 'check engine' light came on... at the same time, my tach quit registering. I arrived at my destination, killed the engine, and then started that sweet thing back up. Voila!.. the c/e light was out and the tach worked. So I went inside... did my duty for a couple of hours... when I came back out, she wouldn't start. Oh yeah, she turned over and finally 'caught', but when I gave her just a little gas... she gagged and coughed like this was her death bed.
Well, after $400/worth of 'diagnostics' at the local-yocal Mazda dealer, she's still sittin'. They can't figure her out. They thought it might be the ECU... to the tune of $1,000.
Hmmm.... maybe... perhaps...$1,000 here, $1,000 there. They changed her plugs, her air filter, checked the cat-converter and the exhaust.
Now, she'll start and idle, but a bit roughly. And when I gently tap on ye' olde accelerator... she responds like a wife in curlers... "Go away, jerk... I have a headache."
Man-o-man, when she was running, she screamed bloody murder. You know what I mean... doin' 70+ on the interstate and some kid with a 'Stang comes along. Fine. Just let me kick her down a few gears and whammo... I mean a launch into hyperspace!!!
But now, she sits there, sleek and sexy, like a paperweight was meant to be.
Any thoughts? Is it the ECU? I'm sure I could find one out there somewhere (once I pull it and get the service ####'s).
Forgive the breach of protocol... but you can reach me at gfisher1@parkland.edu with input, all the serious elements of which will be greatly appreciated.
7adict
