aadperformance
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jul 30, 2005
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Bellevue,
Washington
So My buddy brings me his car to change out the axle due to a busted boot and I had to let the car sit for a week until I had time to work on it. Well when I was ready to finally work on it the car would not start so I check out the fuel and its fine all the way until the injectors, and battery is good so I pulled the ECU and find that one of the black rectangle shaped pieces (6 in a row) on the board looks like it got too hot and burned itself and the area around it, thus wiping out the injector control. So I grab a spare that I have and plug it in and we are good to go, the car runs and drives just fine now, however after letting it sit at idle for a few minutes I start to smell the ecu burning so I pull it out and same thing, but this time its one of the capacitors next to where the small black rectangle things are. Now the car still runs but I have a burnt spot on the ecu and am afraid I will ruin it if I try to plug it in again. So any ideas what is causing this as it seems not to be the ecu's fault since I pulled it out of a running car moments before switching to the car with issues. BTW its a 91 awd talon.
That's what I was going to say to check first. Glad you got it figured out... and I hope those weren't eproms that you were ruining 
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