2.8 stalls under load?

[bimdub]

need the letters.... but i'm going to guess they are ASWH?

yes....

[bimdub]

yeah, its not the ICM.....

[CNCguy]

Any updates?

[60dgrzbelow0]

With your technical background... supported by the best advice that you've encountered so far ...from CNCguy... to employ the two-wire ALDL reading method for getting a glimpse at all the dope inside the PCM-ECM and perhaps that line of thinking will prove more revealing when used in conjunction with the ODB I-II Data Sets as per suggestions from pocket-rocket and Robertisaar, using an inexpensive laptop interface and the Free Diagnostic Software suggested earlier. The logs you create could then be posted back to the forum and those with a deeper and abiding understanding of their arcane meanings can see what we are so far missing...and light the way... Yes?

[bimdub]

well...I cant give you compression numbers....but I suspect since the car does not smoke.....the fluids are not mixing.....and it pulls strongly (once in a while it does drive fine) the engine is probably good as a whole.....

[robertisaar]

Sherlock Holmes famously said, "When you've eliminated everything that is reasonably possible... whatever is left, however illogical it may seem...is the answer to any problem..."

AWESOME.

[60dgrzbelow0]

Sherlock Holmes famously said, "When you've eliminated everything that is reasonably possible... whatever is left, however illogical it may seem...is the answer to any problem..."

What else can be looked at that you have not already done?

[bimdub]

if you grab a known good coil as well, you can make an interesting spark plug tester...

I have a motorcycle coil I use for testing plugs....its small....and triggers from a 9volt and a momentary switch....

[bimdub]

I am seeing good vacuum with my gauge.....the needle is steady and around 20+ inches

[robertisaar]

I am just goint to go ahead and shove a new ICM in there...if it does not solve the problem.....at least I will have a spare for use later in life......who knows.....

if you grab a known good coil as well, you can make an interesting spark plug tester...

[60dgrzbelow0]

I didn't take offense to the edit comment at all. ... I think you would be correct, bimdub.

(Whew...Okeedoke... )



I was wondering...if this solution is not found in the electronic sensor failures/reading side...what are the chances there is an (U/L) IM vacuum leak somewhere that only presents itself at 2,000 RPM or better? How would you nab that symptom with the engine approaching two grand?

[pocket-rocket]

Spare parts that are known to go out isn't really a bad thing to have. I have a DOHC alternator on the shelf...

[bimdub]

I am just goint to go ahead and shove a new ICM in there...if it does not solve the problem.....at least I will have a spare for use later in life......who knows.....

[pocket-rocket]

I didn't take offense to the edit comment at all.

I think you would be correct, bimdub.

[bimdub]

given that the Ignition is still delivering the spark.....I would think the CPS is fine....