Church of the Free Electron

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

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: <mailto:brian_wagner@sbcglobal.net>Brian Wagner
>To: <mailto:scirocco-l@scirocco.org>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