93celicaconv
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Do you still have the maroon car 240k mile distributor? May want to check your resistance on plug wire 1 (to make sure it is not open) and try that spark plug on another engine to see if the spark plug can create a spark arc.
Some questions in red within your last post.abeans":2e8kdx9i said:Nope. This car is not in my garage as mentioned earlier, at my buddys house.
He tried to do the jumper on the diag port. No change. I'm sure this sentence means something to you, but I don't understand what this is trying to say.
So, i need to take apart the parts cars engine distributor just for spares + reference.... Might go try to take that stupid trans off the engine to if i get bored.
For some content filler: The last time the parts car ran (looks pretty nice when you don't look underneath.. Had to prime the key 5-6 times to build up enough fuel pressure start. Leaked in the back because rust.) What do you mean by "prime the key 5-6 times to build up enough fuel pressure"? Do you mean you are activating the starter motor 5-6 times and turning the engine over that many different times? I'm not seeing 5-6 times of anything in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnbgvEv5gl0
and playing with the headlights on the car when we first got power to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_o3NAZ5bbQ
REALLY hope its something in the distributor, and not me bricking the ECU stupidly. That would be a expensive mistake. But i guess in reality i don't have a ton of money dumped into the project. More so just time.
+b and fp terminals on the diag port. Read Here, that worked for some. viewtopic.php?t=4710893celicaconv":3nzsdq9z said:I'm sure this sentence means something to you, but I don't understand what this is trying to say
93celicaconv":3nzsdq9z said:What do you mean by "prime the key 5-6 times to build up enough fuel pressure"? Do you mean you are activating the starter motor 5-6 times and turning the engine over that many different times? I'm not seeing 5-6 times of anything in the video.[/color]
93celicaconv":2ov5y93h said:Unless you have a California emissions version, while the factory ECU "controls" EGR, it does not "monitor" EGR (there is no DTC tripped from a detection something is wrong with it). California emissions setups incorporate an EGR gas temp sensor, and the California emissions ECU will trip if the actual EGR gas temperatures aren't close to the mapping of normal EGR gas temperatures when the EGR is controlling it.
Same goes for the EVAP system, except in this case, the ECU has no part of it's control (just the VSV that you said on yours is broken).
You are correct, alltracman78. I should not have used the words "California emissions" prior to the word ECU - I was so focused on the difference on a California emissions setup, I used the reference once too often. Apologize for that error. It is interesting that the shop manual, on pages FI-44 & 45, reference DTC 71 (EGR System Malfunction) as a code used for California specifications only. I think, since there is only 1 ECU used for all USDM ST185's, that DTC codes exists in all cars, but with a fix resistor reference for all USDM cars less California, that DTC can't be tripped.alltracman78":1u7fiirb said:93celicaconv":1u7fiirb said:Unless you have a California emissions version, while the factory ECU "controls" EGR, it does not "monitor" EGR (there is no DTC tripped from a detection something is wrong with it). California emissions setups incorporate an EGR gas temp sensor, and the California emissions ECU will trip if the actual EGR gas temperatures aren't close to the mapping of normal EGR gas temperatures when the EGR is controlling it.
Same goes for the EVAP system, except in this case, the ECU has no part of it's control (just the VSV that you said on yours is broken).
I'm not trying to bust anyones balls here, just correct the facts for future reference.
There's no California emissions ECU; all the ECUs monitor EGR temp. The difference is the California emissions cars have an actual EGR temp sensor, the federal emissions cars use a factory installed resistor (in the temp sensor connector) instead.
And the ECU could care less about the EVAP, California or federal. Doesn't control it. Doesn't monitor it.