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help urgent mn guys
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CarRacer
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Toybreaker helped me narrow it down to the CAS. Sam washed the car and a little water got into the sensor.
A new greentop CAS would help out a ton.
A new greentop CAS would help out a ton.
toybreaker
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You're a good man for stopping to lend a hand, James. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/applause.gif
Hopefully, Sam can get the car back to his house, and continue troubleshooting it there.
A good approach would be to disconnect the battery, and then go thru the harness systematically, disconnecting and drying each connectopr/component as you go.
Then, you can plug everything back in and try again.
It would be an especilally good idea to make sure the spark plug wells are all clean and dry, and the ends of the coil on plug expetensions are clean and dry. A little di-electric grease on the booots will help them go on and off th pluds smoothly and easily.
If the plugs got seriouslly soaked with fuel, a little brake clean will help dry them. After you get it runing again, a new set of plugs may be a good ideea as well, as a plug will sometimes glaze over and give a missfire after this kind of misadventure.
Good luck, and I hope you guys can get if figured out quickly. If you end up needing a cas or other parts, and can't find them locally, leet me know and I'll get one in the mail early next week.
Hopefully, Sam can get the car back to his house, and continue troubleshooting it there.
A good approach would be to disconnect the battery, and then go thru the harness systematically, disconnecting and drying each connectopr/component as you go.
Then, you can plug everything back in and try again.
It would be an especilally good idea to make sure the spark plug wells are all clean and dry, and the ends of the coil on plug expetensions are clean and dry. A little di-electric grease on the booots will help them go on and off th pluds smoothly and easily.
If the plugs got seriouslly soaked with fuel, a little brake clean will help dry them. After you get it runing again, a new set of plugs may be a good ideea as well, as a plug will sometimes glaze over and give a missfire after this kind of misadventure.
Good luck, and I hope you guys can get if figured out quickly. If you end up needing a cas or other parts, and can't find them locally, leet me know and I'll get one in the mail early next week.
A big thanks to everyone that called me to see if I got my car running, and a big thanks to James, a really good guy he didnt even know me and ran to my car to start troubleshooting without asking my name, a real stand up guy, we narrowerd the problem down to a wet and bad cas sensor, so i had to eat the tow bill the guy helped out and only charged 100 bucks to my house 28 miles away even on a holiday weekend, a thanks to Josh from the dsm chapter here (mitsustyle) he sold me a cas for 30 bucks and even took it to my work just to get me going, installed the cas and a minute later was driving the beastie again, took it to the local cruise spot last night without a problem, aain a big thanks fro everyone helping out here really good welcome, what sucks is that the car died infront of all the audi and bmw guys right at the entrance to the place, but the owners (big buck people) helped out and were cool. Hope to see everyone soon
A note to self next engine wash---plastic bag the cas
A note to self next engine wash---plastic bag the cas
Lonewolf64
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Glad to see you get everything going again Sam. Will we see you at any more VA gatherings or are you now transferred back to MN permanently?
CarRacer
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I'd love to take the credit, but I was just the messenger. I was out of ideas after swapping the ignition igniter. Luckily, Rausch and Toybreaker took time out of their holiday weekend to help troubleshoot the issue over the phone. Glad to hear you got it running.
Nartanian
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Sweet, great to hear the car is up and running.
