waltah
10+ Year Contributor
- 368
- 156
- Mar 2, 2011
-
fairfield,
Virginia
There's a square yellow looks-like-a-plug in the lower left of the 2g engine compartment fuse block. It's called the I.O.D. and contains two fuses, one of which (F11 on diagrams) supplies power to the ECU. (Like ... important, right?)
How do you test those fuses? They seem to be regular blade fuses but the tops are mostly covered so they can't be tested where they are.
And how do you remove the IOD? The answer may be 'apply more brute force' but sometimes when I do that it doesn't turn out very well.
And for a whole bunch extra points, what does I.O.D. stand for? It's an abbreviation for something and in other models of '90s Mitsubishi you pull it out in order to disable everything but essential circuits to operate the car so the battery doesn't run down so quickly during storage. I've no idea what its function is in 2g Eclipse since pulling it seems likely to disable the ECU (via loss of power to pin 80) and thus disable the engine.
How do you test those fuses? They seem to be regular blade fuses but the tops are mostly covered so they can't be tested where they are.
And how do you remove the IOD? The answer may be 'apply more brute force' but sometimes when I do that it doesn't turn out very well.
And for a whole bunch extra points, what does I.O.D. stand for? It's an abbreviation for something and in other models of '90s Mitsubishi you pull it out in order to disable everything but essential circuits to operate the car so the battery doesn't run down so quickly during storage. I've no idea what its function is in 2g Eclipse since pulling it seems likely to disable the ECU (via loss of power to pin 80) and thus disable the engine.