After getting the Konis installed, I took the car out for a test drive to make sure everything was put back together.\u00a0 It didn’t go well.\u00a0 The car wouldn’t idle, once you blocked the throttle open a hair, the idle had a terrible stumble in it, and when it was under load it was just terrible.\u00a0 Everything that I saw indicated that the car was dumping fuel.\u00a0 I hooked up the laptop and checked the temp gauges while the car was turned off and everything was reading where it should.\u00a0 I re-calibrated the tps but still, it was running really badly.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
My next step was to assume an injector was stuck open, but right before I started digging out my spare set, it occured to me that when the car wasn’t running, all the gauges were pretty much rock-solid.\u00a0 When the car was running, however, the temp and tps readouts were bouncing all over the place.\u00a0 Thinking that maybe it was the vibration causing it, I started to shake the ms harness and found that the screw which held all the grounds to the body wasn’t connected any more.<\/p>\n
Tightened up that screw, solidifying the ground, and everything runs great again.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After getting the Konis installed, I took the car out for a test drive to make sure everything was put back together.\u00a0 It didn’t go well.\u00a0 The car wouldn’t idle, once you blocked the throttle open a hair, the idle…
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