Schtoo
Member
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2020
- Messages
- 41
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- 44
- Points
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- Age
- 49
- Location
- Melbourne
- Members Ride
- 2000 VS Ute
Just what the title says.
Driving along, A/C doing it's thing yesterday while it was hot outside, and hello, what's this smell? Smells like a burning cutoff wheel. But that truck in front just seemed to do a one-tyre-fyre so maybe that was it. Drive along, not a care in the world and then...
Where's my power gone? Why won't it idle? Why am I at 12V? Huh? What?
Nurse it all the way back to work, then home again. No power, no fan, maybe popped alternator?
No, no spark on 1 & 4 coil. Dammit! Supercheap has coils, lets get a set and swap them out.
Did that when I got home, and while it's got more power than it did yesterday afternoon, it's still missing fire in a couple cylinders. Drivable, mobile and all that, but I'd really like to have my somewhat punchy ecotec back to normal.
Going to throw a new DFI module at it on Monday, and would I be correct in thinking that a burned smell and missing 1-2 cylinders would explain that? Just don't want to keep throwing parts at it, I'd rather throw the right parts at it. And if I can, maybe I'm going to chicketchit out and get the mechanic to do it. Can't be asred if he's going to get me the bits anyway. That said, he got me some holy grail genuine lion-on-the-packet parts a little while back for less than the cheapest, suspect-as parts on fleabay were going for.
(Coils are 212,000km old, they can stay retired now without me shedding a tear...)
Stu.
Driving along, A/C doing it's thing yesterday while it was hot outside, and hello, what's this smell? Smells like a burning cutoff wheel. But that truck in front just seemed to do a one-tyre-fyre so maybe that was it. Drive along, not a care in the world and then...
Where's my power gone? Why won't it idle? Why am I at 12V? Huh? What?
Nurse it all the way back to work, then home again. No power, no fan, maybe popped alternator?
No, no spark on 1 & 4 coil. Dammit! Supercheap has coils, lets get a set and swap them out.
Did that when I got home, and while it's got more power than it did yesterday afternoon, it's still missing fire in a couple cylinders. Drivable, mobile and all that, but I'd really like to have my somewhat punchy ecotec back to normal.
Going to throw a new DFI module at it on Monday, and would I be correct in thinking that a burned smell and missing 1-2 cylinders would explain that? Just don't want to keep throwing parts at it, I'd rather throw the right parts at it. And if I can, maybe I'm going to chicketchit out and get the mechanic to do it. Can't be asred if he's going to get me the bits anyway. That said, he got me some holy grail genuine lion-on-the-packet parts a little while back for less than the cheapest, suspect-as parts on fleabay were going for.
(Coils are 212,000km old, they can stay retired now without me shedding a tear...)
Stu.