It has been awhile. But I am still having this problem. I burnt ECU #4. It is the same as the others same green crud and same cap burnt. I will get pix of everything in the daytime..I only have one ECU left and it's my good eprom, I need to solve this problem once and for all.
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Galant eating ECU's
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spoulson
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It is worth having a skilled craftsman repair an ECU with leaky caps. Jeff O fixed mine back in 2004 with acid damage to a significant portion of an injector driver trace, and it's still running smooth to this day.
blacksheep
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Quoting turbowop:
I wanna see pics of said green slime.
who you gonna call - keydriver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanna see pics of said green slime.
who you gonna call - keydriver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nate
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Just to remind people - it's KeyDIVER, hence the Diver flag on his webpage. 
blacksheep
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Nate - its an inside joke on the gvr4board, fou. You need to be a regular post(whorer) to understand...Push start out!
rgeier11
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Where are you located in IL?
gvr4ever
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Are any of the ECU wires spliced in to? Not sure what the green stuff is, but is sounds like some sort of chemical reaction. Why it would be on the plug is strange. Is this on the outside of the cover? While I guess it's possible that you fried all those ECUs, it doesn't seem likely that you could in such a short period of time, unless something besides leaky caps was a problem.
Quoting gvr4ever:
Are any of the ECU wires spliced in to? Not sure what the green stuff is, but is sounds like some sort of chemical reaction. Why it would be on the plug is strange. Is this on the outside of the cover? While I guess it's possible that you fried all those ECUs, it doesn't seem likely that you could in such a short period of time, unless something besides leaky caps was a problem.
When I lost the first ECU there was a SAFC in the car.
The green stuff is only on the middle plug, but it ends up on the middle socket on the ECU as well.
Are any of the ECU wires spliced in to? Not sure what the green stuff is, but is sounds like some sort of chemical reaction. Why it would be on the plug is strange. Is this on the outside of the cover? While I guess it's possible that you fried all those ECUs, it doesn't seem likely that you could in such a short period of time, unless something besides leaky caps was a problem.
When I lost the first ECU there was a SAFC in the car.
The green stuff is only on the middle plug, but it ends up on the middle socket on the ECU as well.
Telecaster
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Is your ecu mounted or is it just lying there in the passenger foot well? Looks like water is dripping on to the harness. I had that problem too, took out 1 ecu.
spooling92vr4
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that green sh*t is corrosion, are you just plugging the other ecus back in without cleaning that sh*t off first?
gvr4ever
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If it were my car, I think I'd want to get a unhacked harness in before trying a good ECU.
Yeah, you have water and corrosion in the harness. You are going to have to eliminate that before you will have any success.
Peel off some of the insulation on the suspect wires some distance away from the plug so you can get some idea of how far the corrosion goes. Inside the wires you will never eliminate it from inside the insulation. You are going to have to splice in good wire.
Peel off some of the insulation on the suspect wires some distance away from the plug so you can get some idea of how far the corrosion goes. Inside the wires you will never eliminate it from inside the insulation. You are going to have to splice in good wire.
Telecaster
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That's water then.
spooling92vr4
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do you have a wheel well cover on that side of the car? there has to be a good amount of moisture getting in there to cause that.
