Forg
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- Retirement Village, Sydney
Hidey-ho!
So I was out earlyish this morning taking the 242 to a mechanic, to do something I could probably do myself but am too lazy, when karma struck me down for said laziness. Stalled & wouldn't start on a really busy road just prior to peak.
It's a B23/0/E+T, MoTeC ECU, home-made loom, all sensors & actuators were new (10-15 years ago), and in particular 4x (5yo) OEM LS1 ignition modules.
I managed to roll downhill & around the corner to get out of the heavy traffic, and started playing with the (still stock) interior fuse-box before remembering that all the ECU stuff had been done via relays & fuses under the hood near the battery.
Poke here, jiggle there, wouldn't start - seemed to nearly catch on occasion but wouldn't keep running. Note that it's got a really grumpy idle once warm, and it'd only just gotten out of it's cold-start cycle.
So just before calling the motorists' association freebie tow-truck, I pushed the four plug leads harder onto both the plugs & the coils ... and she fired right up.
In people's experience with coil-per-plug setups that aren't directly coil-on-spark, what are the chances of a lead having come loose? The ignition modules are atop the cam-cover on a bracket, so the leads are only around 1/2' long. Is one of the ignition modules possibly a dud & me poking it temporarily re-connected something intenally ... is it likely I've got a dud lead which re-connected as a result of my poking?
So I was out earlyish this morning taking the 242 to a mechanic, to do something I could probably do myself but am too lazy, when karma struck me down for said laziness. Stalled & wouldn't start on a really busy road just prior to peak.
It's a B23/0/E+T, MoTeC ECU, home-made loom, all sensors & actuators were new (10-15 years ago), and in particular 4x (5yo) OEM LS1 ignition modules.
I managed to roll downhill & around the corner to get out of the heavy traffic, and started playing with the (still stock) interior fuse-box before remembering that all the ECU stuff had been done via relays & fuses under the hood near the battery.
Poke here, jiggle there, wouldn't start - seemed to nearly catch on occasion but wouldn't keep running. Note that it's got a really grumpy idle once warm, and it'd only just gotten out of it's cold-start cycle.
So just before calling the motorists' association freebie tow-truck, I pushed the four plug leads harder onto both the plugs & the coils ... and she fired right up.
In people's experience with coil-per-plug setups that aren't directly coil-on-spark, what are the chances of a lead having come loose? The ignition modules are atop the cam-cover on a bracket, so the leads are only around 1/2' long. Is one of the ignition modules possibly a dud & me poking it temporarily re-connected something intenally ... is it likely I've got a dud lead which re-connected as a result of my poking?