follow up on power steering computer
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follow up on power steering computer
Icemark/hailers i know that you have pinned it down to some cold solder points on the computer board for the power steering.. As it has been cutting in and out. Have you found out which one(s)?
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On the 5 that I have on my bench, that I have been tracing down cold solder joints, I have found some intresting things.
#1. units made after 7/87 (the 88 model year and later) seem to be missing the buzzer, and have a small resistor in place of the buzzer. So if there were any error codes, on the 88 and later ones, the buzzer failure indicators would never go off (unless you soldered in a buzzer- which I have been doing and it works fine).
#2, the majority of the cold solder joints are either in the plug where it meets the circuit board (surprise surprise ) OR in the first set of transistors next to the plug. In fact 3 of the 5 I have been working with, had bad solder joints on the actual transistors. This is very uncommon.
#1. units made after 7/87 (the 88 model year and later) seem to be missing the buzzer, and have a small resistor in place of the buzzer. So if there were any error codes, on the 88 and later ones, the buzzer failure indicators would never go off (unless you soldered in a buzzer- which I have been doing and it works fine).
#2, the majority of the cold solder joints are either in the plug where it meets the circuit board (surprise surprise ) OR in the first set of transistors next to the plug. In fact 3 of the 5 I have been working with, had bad solder joints on the actual transistors. This is very uncommon.
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Very strange about #1....
And sounds like most of the board needs to be resoldered... I might have to yank it out and give it a touch up... Is it hard to resolder the area around the transistor w/o damaging the transistor?
And sounds like most of the board needs to be resoldered... I might have to yank it out and give it a touch up... Is it hard to resolder the area around the transistor w/o damaging the transistor?
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Originally Posted by DC350
Very strange about #1....
And sounds like most of the board needs to be resoldered... I might have to yank it out and give it a touch up... Is it hard to resolder the area around the transistor w/o damaging the transistor?
And sounds like most of the board needs to be resoldered... I might have to yank it out and give it a touch up... Is it hard to resolder the area around the transistor w/o damaging the transistor?
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Mark,
Have any of the re-solders you've done had any effect on the problem we've been having with the PS cutting in and out? I bought a used PS computer recently, and - surprise surprise - it has the same problem.
Pete
Have any of the re-solders you've done had any effect on the problem we've been having with the PS cutting in and out? I bought a used PS computer recently, and - surprise surprise - it has the same problem.
Pete
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Hmmm...this is interesting. I always thought mine went in and out because I put it in and wasnt sure if I clamped a line or somethin! This may be the cure to my PS problems also!
So...where is this PS CPU anyways?
So...where is this PS CPU anyways?
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Originally Posted by nopistons
Mark,
Have any of the re-solders you've done had any effect on the problem we've been having with the PS cutting in and out? I bought a used PS computer recently, and - surprise surprise - it has the same problem.
Pete
Have any of the re-solders you've done had any effect on the problem we've been having with the PS cutting in and out? I bought a used PS computer recently, and - surprise surprise - it has the same problem.
Pete
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