URGENT -- Installed starter, got sputter - Page 2

Cliff · 10-16-2007, 10:15 AM

I disconnect the battery any time I open the hood, practically. I really don't wanna touch bare wire while grounding myself out. NOT fun.

sedodes · 10-17-2007, 11:55 AM

Yeah, I disconnected the battery -- I do every time I do any work under the hood. I tend to be very careful with electricity ever since I touched the sparkplug on a running lawnmower when I was 8.

I have a 2 farad cap for my audio and a solar panel I use to trickle charge the battery, neither of which I disconnected, so maybe it somehow got zapped by those. Or maybe it was just its time to go. It was 16 years old after all.

BenFenner · 10-17-2007, 12:34 PM

Congrats on getting it fixed. It's good to hear that such a tough problem to diagnose was caught relatively quickly. I know I would never have suggested that the ECU might need replacing.

I can tell you must have learned quite a bit from all the work you've done. You remind me of myself maybe 6 years ago. Eager to learn, good mechanical skills, just needed some direction from others who have been there before.

I hope the rest of your education continues similarly. =]

Eric96redsr20 · 10-17-2007, 01:26 PM

i just had to replace mine a couple weeks ago, it idled all over the place, changed the ECU and now she's good although it has a real problem with cold starts I have to switch them back to see if it does it then too. i can't remember if it did.

SENTRASER · 10-20-2007, 09:14 PM

ECU's fry all the time, I've had a couple myself. Mostly 91 cars though.