Cutting Out Gremlin Caught and Crushed!
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:25 am
The intermittent Cut Out Gremlin has been caught, thrown in a bag and CRUSHED! You know the one, car is running perfectly then just cuts out and dies or surges for no apparent reason. And of course it wouldn't just die for good. Nooo, that would be too easy to diagnose then!
A few years back it was the Bosch Injection Relay acting up and that seemed to take a number of months to figure out. This one had me for the past six months
I thought I had checked the underhood wires all around when the problem first came up, but yesterday while the v6 was idling I wiggled the bottom wires of the resistor (next to the ignition Amplifier) and the car just died Man, was I happy! Trying it again sparks arced to the other terminal which was also lose, and the car died again. Crimping them down with pliers didn't help, so the old connectors were cut off and new ones crimped on.
Time to run it through the gears! GV
A few years back it was the Bosch Injection Relay acting up and that seemed to take a number of months to figure out. This one had me for the past six months
I thought I had checked the underhood wires all around when the problem first came up, but yesterday while the v6 was idling I wiggled the bottom wires of the resistor (next to the ignition Amplifier) and the car just died Man, was I happy! Trying it again sparks arced to the other terminal which was also lose, and the car died again. Crimping them down with pliers didn't help, so the old connectors were cut off and new ones crimped on.
Time to run it through the gears! GV