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Re: Possible bad ECM input needed.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:17 am
by themixer
Not sure what happened to the two bad ECMs I have dealt with.
Re: Possible bad ECM input needed.
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:13 am
by Cliff8928
Asylum wrote:Cliff8928 wrote: I could tap on it and it would act normal for a while.
Sometimes if you tap on ME, (with a big enough bat) I'm able to act normal for a while!
We can try that at Bfest...
My bad ECM would cause the engine to bog down with ANY throttle input when it was acting up.
Re: Possible bad ECM input needed.
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:21 pm
by RobertISaar
heating/cooling cycles and vibration take their toll on even the best solder joints.
electrolytic caps also have a finite lifespan.
more often than not, those two causes are responsible for most internal ECM failures. outside of that, you can unintentionally damage them in any number of ways, but that is outside of their normal operating range.
at this point in time, I would be worried about the PROMs starting to lose bits as well. I've actually pulled a few BINs from PROMs that were experiencing "bit rot". one bit being off can not only cause the checksum to fail and set a DTC, if it happens in the code section, one bad instruction will almost always cause the bad opcode vector to be called, which forces the ECM into limp-home mode. at least LHM is fairly foolproof, it's an almost/completely analog circuit, so long as you have functioning injectors and reasonable signals coming from the crank, coolant temp and MAP/TPS sensors, it gets the job done.
Re: Possible bad ECM input needed.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:44 am
by Vampcrist
I think it was a short in the wiring that I finally found.