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Old 21-02-23, 05:41 PM
Green411 Green411 is offline
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Default Update - Woe, woe and thrice woe

Well..........

Haven't driven on the roads yet as there's not been enough rain in my area (west of Cambridge) to wash all the winter salt off the roads. So I've fired 'er up a few times and run up to temperature, mainly because it felt good and I'm still getting used to my lovely old 411 actually starting when asked to, instead of doing the automotive equivalent of saying 'Shan't' and stanping it's pretty little foot....

I noticed that tuel gauge wouldn't register so I took the sender out to check the float for a puncture and test the resistence as the float arm moved. All was ok, although there's no reading at the very bottom of the float arm's travel. In the end all I had to do was clean the sender's earth terminal and off on it's travels went the gauge needle, into the heady reaches of roughly half full.

The old 383 was happily idling away after 3rd start when it just coughed and cut out...aah....

Fuel pump wouldn't run with ignition on but ran normally when earthed. Pink ignition wire and red & black main battery connections all had power. Main Sniper fuse was intact. The HHT couldn't find the ECU when connected so the conclusion was (ie my Responsible Automotive Adult Julian said that) the ECU was dead.
I rang Holley Tech and they gave me some tests to do, all of which I'd just done under Julian's eagle eye. So Holley Tech agreed with Julian that as it was all connected correctly, power was available, then the ECU had failed. As it was less than 90 days since purchase it was down to the vendor (Summit) to replace it.
I've emailed Summit and they asked for quotes to send the unit back, which I've provided, and they're thinking about whether they want it back or not.

Anyway, at least my Anglo-saxon copulative vocabulary has had some excercise even if my 411 hasn't...
Will update further when something happens.
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