Calling On Sau For Advice ;)

[Madaz]

i hear petrol and matches works a treat

[ontheranch]

Probably not the same thing but,

Once my 34 went completely dead at a set of traffic lights. Engine stopped, no power to any electrics including my hazard lights so pretty much packed my dacks cos it was night time on main north road.

Anyway had to push it up on the kerb cos it wouldnt start, like there was just nothing.

RAA came and screwed around with it for bout an hour and it was where the battery connects to the engine or something. They had lost contact.

Got it started but ever since then my tacho hasnt worked.

Edited September 16, 2008 by ontheranch

[joeleo87]

thanks steve.... im surprised you didnt post some cracked out picture to go with that post lol

Thanks penny, thought was my intial thought but when my car cuts out it does stil have power

so embarrassing pushing a skyline hey lol.

im lending an ECU of dohmar and putting it in tonight so that should give me some answers

[Madaz]

yeah i must be slipping

[joeleo87]

Ok well i didnt even make it to Domahs house to swap in the ECU. called the RAA and he was pretty sure its related to a sensor. just for the fact that when it gets hot it tends to die.

why i can drive it for about 2 hours 1 day and its fine then i drive it for 30 mins and it dies the next day ive no f**king idea.

Tonight i did notice the taco needle spazzed out something cronic just before it died, moving heaps fast between 0 and 2 thousand RPMs.

It would start and fire but then the taco freak out then die. It started everytime though just didnt last long. sending it down to the auto elec tomorrow again.

If i could find a Power FC to borrow to test sensors it may help but i dont think they will show faults while the problem only surfaces at the most inconvenient times

any1 else got any ideas?

appreciate the input

cheers

[Damo_R34]

take it back to where u bought it from

[S32R]

sounds like u got a bad earth (common in alot of older cars)

i would say clean ur earths as may as u can find

[Madaz]

yeah my car had a fuel cut type defender not the HKS one and it was having a bad earth and car was carrying on something bad Heslo problem solved that one

[joeleo87]

clean my earths.... jesus where to start? any ideas?

maybe i need to talk to heslo

[Madaz]

open the kick panel to your ECU and see whats in there

[joeleo87]

its a mines ecu. that what you mean?

[Madaz]

is there anything else connected in there

[joeleo87]

ill check brb lol

[joeleo87]

nah nothing out of the ordinary, just an ECU and loom?

[heslo]

Hmm... yeah Steve you had that problem but it wasn't intermittent, I don't think it's an earthing problem myself. I had a SIMILAR, I'm not saying exact but similar on my 33GTS-t, it turned out it was a dicky AAC unit and caused all sorts of problems trying to start the car/idle, however it NEVER cut out on me. I take it fuel isn't an issue? As in it is getting fuel (pump isn't rooted)?

[joeleo87]

well the thought had crossed my mind but i had it pressure tested and its came back squeeky clean (45psi on start up not sure on the rest of the info)

tonight when i called the RAA the guy said it sounds like the CAS but it was benched??? are these things really that anal?

if my pump was on its way out wouldnt it constantly show signs of no power etc???

[heslo]

Hmmm... if they tested the CAS it SHOULD be fine but stranger things have happened, mayhaps it could be a wire/contact leading to the CAS? I dunno here really, I'm stabbing in the dark. Have you taken the car to a PROPER import workshop to see if they have any ideas?

[joeleo87]

took it to boost n oz and they drove it around like all day and it didnt cut out (if it doesnt cut out they dont know where to start looking)

PROPER import work shop like who?

[Dohmar]

took it to boost n oz and they drove it around like all day and it didnt cut out (if it doesnt cut out they dont know where to start looking)

PROPER import work shop like who?

Take it to Road & Track.... I go there all the time, and they sorted Dan (Inline6) out on Monday...

Details are in my sig

-D

[Krishy]

there are a few places to take your car mate

import specialist would be boostworx