I cannot be buggered searching

[Ipswitch]

Ive had it on the dyno and laptop trying to figure it out. No sensors are playing up so im guessing its electrical.

I can be driving for a while or just out of my drive way down the street and then the car turns off. Either as i am hitting a corner or sometimes at the lights. When in reverse or drive it almost stalls as well. In nuetral it is fine but drive and reverse it drops to about 600rpm.
When the car turns off the electronics stay on but the engine cuts out.

While on the dyno it was running fine and didnt stall once which was kinda crap.

I am guessing its something simple trying to annoy me.

Any idea's?

[fazz1977]

Reset your ECU, pull the battery for 5 minutes, put it back on, start the car and rev to 3000rpm for 10 seconds. See if that helps. If there is still an issue it will start being recorded in the computer again.

[88GreenVN]

Try a different ECU - fixed my stalling issue.

[fazz1977]

There's always that option too. ECU and memcal.

[immortality]

i'm assuming that with the laptop you been loging fault codes etc?

[Ipswitch]

yeah, the laptop is logging all fault codes, i am missing a spark about every 100 but thats probably normal, other than that no errors or problems known by the ecu etc.

I was hoping it was a oxygen sensor or something simple.

I tried resetting the ecu and that didnt work, i just changed the ifm sensor but left the ecu the same for now.

The engine has only done 4610km now, i probably forgot to do up a bolt tight enough or something stupid. Could it be anything like that?

[AirStrike]

My SS was doing the exact same thing, was a dead ECU.
AirStrike

[str8up]

Does it have anything to do with the vacuum line to try and keep it idling?

[pandaman]

Does it have anything to do with the vacuum line to try and keep it idling?

If you're talking about the map sensor vacuum line, then his data logging would have definitely noticed that. Actually, all vacuum lines will produce a noticeable effect if removed. Apart from the charcoal canister lines and they're just silly.

[fitzy2005]

stupid question but tried cleaning out the throttle body and replacing gaskets etc? but it just 'dieing' could be crank angel sensor? dont always report error codes

[VNexecutive]

my dad had a stalling problem in his hilux 4wd, which had the 3.8 L commo engine in it, and it was a sensor problem. does your car have trouble starting again once stalled? if so, get a bucket of water and tip it over the motor (i know it seems odd, but try it and see what happens).

if the car runs fine after this then its the sensor, if my theory is right ill get more info for you.

[Ipswitch]

ill replace the ecu and see what happens.

I have replaced the crank angle sensor etc and all seems fine so we shall see.

Cheers for that

[Ipswitch]

well to my amazement, it was simply the throttle cable.

When i turnt around corners it pulled the cable with a tie i have holding it and when it was at the lights etc it was slack so viabrated.

I bet no body thought of that. haha

cheers anyway, have a good night

[pandaman]

well to my amazement, it was simply the throttle cable.

When i turnt around corners it pulled the cable with a tie i have holding it and when it was at the lights etc it was slack so viabrated.

I bet no body thought of that. haha

cheers anyway, have a good night

Dang, thats an odd one. Glad you found it.