Church of the Free Electron

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

Not that high, but it jumped at least half scale.  The reason it wouldn't 
move is that the fuel pump relay was clicking like mad and the  engine just 
wasn't getting enough fuel.  Some of my other failures were 100% ignition 
failure and bogging above 4500 RPM when hot.

John



At 02:55 PM 12/3/2002 -0800, Brian Wagner wrote:

>John,
>
>Did yours spike like I described?
>
>TIA
>
>  John Erickson <ranahan@charter.net> wrote:
>Uh, ICM? I've had three fail...
>
>John
>
>
>At 08:27 AM 12/3/2002 -0800, Jason Adams wrote:
> >re: tach spiking...
> >
> >Mine does it alot worse, sometimes tach pegs @8K ! motor idles at ~800rpm
> >albeit very lumpy, car won't drive when it does this, suptters and
> >backfires and whatnot, Folks here thought it was my ICM (ignition control
> >module) but I haven't gotten a new one yet, I'm going to trace all the
> >wires in there and see if its not just a bad connection somewhere as this
> >problem is intermittant, happens 1 in every 10 startup's...
> >
> >any other ideas?
> >
> >Jason Adams
> >Fahrvergnugen Forever! ;)
> >84 rocco 16v
> >93 320i
> >98 Z71
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Brian Wagner
> >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:34 PM
> >Subject: Church of the Free Electron
> >
> >I have seen the light (pun intended).
> >
> >
> >
> >I had been having some weird problems with the temp gauge, so I decided to
> >clean the rose bud and run a secondary 10guage wire for the battery to it.
> >And low and behold the gauge holds steady and doesn't creep to 135 anymore
> >sit at a nice 112 at idle in traffic and doesn't fluctuate with the blinker.
> >
> >No a new problem has arisen, every once in awhile the tack will spike when
> >at idle to 2 k then settle down, does this for 3 or 4 times then it is
> >fine. And when running down the road it is fine. Also the motor sounds
> >like it missed when it did it. You don't think it could be the knock box,
> >hall sender test good and no oil leaks in the dist. Anyone else with
> >problem and what was done to rectify it
> >
> >Brian
> >
> >TIA
>
>
>
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