capacitor leak? repairable?

[snoozin]

So i've been through the whole nine yards with my car trying to figure out what is wrong. Came down to either a huge boost leak or bad ecu. I pulled the ecu about 7 months ago, and much to my dismay, found no eprom. The caps were in good condition at that time. As i was about 1 month away from moving 1200 miles i didnt have the time to replace the caps as i am less than proficient in circuitry and didnt want to risk destroying my ecu before i moved. I had planned on getting a shop here to replace them in march when i was going to have time off work. It seems i didnt get that long to wait. It looks like one of my caps leaked on my board and destroyed the harmony my car was enjoying. So my questions here are; is this in fact my cap leaking or is something else the culprit, and, is this fixable or am i now in the market for a new ecu? Thanks in advance...

-Mitch-

 

[suthvagsx90]

So i've been through the whole nine yards with my car trying to figure out what is wrong. Came down to either a huge boost leak or bad ecu. I pulled the ecu about 7 months ago, and much to my dismay, found no eprom. The caps were in good condition at that time. As i was about 1 month away from moving 1200 miles i didnt have the time to replace the caps as i am less than proficient in circuitry and didnt want to risk destroying my ecu before i moved. I had planned on getting a shop here to replace them in march when i was going to have time off work. It seems i didnt get that long to wait. It looks like one of my caps leaked on my board and destroyed the harmony my car was enjoying. So my questions here are; is this in fact my cap leaking or is something else the culprit, and, is this fixable or am i now in the market for a new ecu? Thanks in advance...

-Mitch-

from my exprerience i had the same problem and i had the caps replaced, and it didnt help anything. Usally once the eletrolyte hit the board its shot i got an ecu from motorguys garage.com. You can send them yours and the new one has a 12 month warranty it worked first try. hopefully i dont get in trouble for the "plug".

 

[anubis]

leaky caps usually = trashed ecu in my experience. sorry. that's why you're supposed to replace them before they leak. of course, it CAN be repaired. however, the question is: will the cost of repair be less than the cost of buying a used ecu with new caps? probably not.

check the classifieds, your local junkyards, and ebay for a new one. maybe it's time to upgrade.

 

[DSMunknown]

Mitch, I may be experiencing the same problem now. I am looking at FFWD's products.






They offer rebuilding services for the 1Gs, which you have. If you decide to replace your ECU, they all offer those too:


http://www.ffwdconnection.com/electronix.shtml



So if you have some time to wait, you can send it over to FFWD and see what they can do. If there isn't a problem with the ECU, then your problem lies elsewhere. Does your ECU smell like anything it shouldn't?

 

[BISHILVR]

That does look like it leaked but it does'nt look like it did that much damage if any. I have seen and (drive with) ecu's that looked alot worse and still operate.