CEL Light when turning Left?

[Gamble97]

As of last week I installed my dsmlink. My only mods are apex exhaust, k&n intake, uicp, walbro 190.
While driving home tonight, I made a left turn and my CEL light came on then went off right away. I didn't think anything of it, until it happened again. It didn't even stay on for 1 second.

Any idea what it could be? Does the dsmlink store those codes?

 

[olmytsi]

Just check for codes but i doubt its a real code, sounds more like a wiring issue.

 

[ilikespeeding]

sounds like wiring...


or crankwalk..




jp on teh walkin

 

[Gamble97]

Oh shit, you scared the crap out of me, then I scrolled down.
Now that I think of it. Doesn't crank walk have something to do when the wheel gets turned all the way to the left?

 

[blackrosenova40]

Actually my cousin has a dog named crank..... well, you know where I was going with that.....

 

[olmytsi]

Oh shit, you scared the crap out of me, then I scrolled down.
Now that I think of it. Doesn't crank walk have something to do when the wheel gets turned all the way to the left?

Its not the wheel but it's the left turn causing the crank to move to the right if the crank has play in it.

 

[Gamble97]

How does the crank move right, when the wheel gets turned left?

 

[olmytsi]

Its not the wheel that moves the crank as i stated above. It's the g force. When you take a hard left, which way does everything in your car move?


















answer: towards the right side

 

[Gamble97]

Ah, DUH!!! Now I understand, .
One of the turns I made was at about 5mph so there was hardly any G-force.

 

[olmytsi]

Lol

 

[ilikespeeding]

Its not the wheel but it's the left turn causing the crank to move to the right if the crank has play in it.

Out of anything Ive heard here, this statement makes the least sense. No one knows exactally what causes crankwalk...but Im pretty sure that left turns have absolutely nothing to do with it. A symptom of crank walk is seen during left turns when hydraulic pressure is drawn from the clutch. Oh and we have transverse engines, so a left turn would pull the crank out toward the passanger side wheel.

He means the clutch gets stuck to the floor when turning and pressing the clutch in at the same time. Then the only way it'll pup back up is by pushing it back up manually.
We all know that automatic 2gs turbos rearely get crank walk. So it might be caused by the higher load on the bearings from the clutch. If it was an oil flow problem wouldn't the bearings also go bad in an automatic just as often? It makes more since that the bearings might be weak and just can't handle a clutch sometimes. But it's also weird that if all the bearigns on 2gs are weak. Then why does crank walk only happens to some cars? There's just to many varibles and reasons as to what it could be. It just so random. A heavy modded 2g can probably get no CW and suddenly a stock car can get it while it's alsmost new. And what's really strange is that even some automatics have had it. Automatics have no side loads on the bearing so how could it ever it into the side of bearing so bad is a total mistery to me. And then there are the cars that seem to get crank walk with low mile engines and keep getting it non stop no matter how many new engines they put in there. How can it be posible to get crankwalk that many times considering only a minorty of 2gs get crank walk? It's preaty sad that as long as Crank Walk has been around no one really knows for sure what causes it. There's been all sorts of ideas as to what might cause it thoguh. From badly shaped cranks from mitsu, Oil flow problems to bad bearings. Of cours with that many things that can cause it sure makes it hard to fix or prevent it.

 

[olmytsi]

I NEVER said the left turn causes crankwalk. I said the g force of a left turn causes a crank to move towards the right side of the engine.

Last time i checked, the passenger side is the RIGHT SIDE