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CPS adventure, Chapter 1 Posted by JohnPeg [Email]  (#2376) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from JohnPeg) on Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:02:36
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2004 9-5 Arc with 62,400 miles. Great car. Car's in my name. I pay for everything but I don't get to drive it much because my wife of 50 years has claimed it as her own. I'm just the husband.
She came home last night with tales of the car not starting when it was hot. She would wait 20 minutes and the car would then start okay. "AH HA" says I. Let car sit in the garage for 20 minutes, go out and try it and it starts just fine. "AH HA, AH HA" says I. It might be the CPS which has never been changed . Sit down and have a large glass of single malt Scotch and contemplate changing the CPS which has just become today's priority.
This morning I go out to the garage and start. Pull shields, block heater wire, O2 sensor, a few other bits and pieces . . . . and I still can't see the blessed thing properly through my tri-focals. Thirty some years of working on airplanes starts to kick in and I finally, FINALLY, find a way to get a 1/4" drive ratchet in there. Screw won't come out. Heave and heave until I'm blue with the effort and the air is blue from my language (it always helped on airplanes) and finally, FINALLY, the screw breaks loose. Get the screw and heat shield out of the way, pull the old CPS out, pull the old o-ring out, clean up the hole and I'm ready to put the new one in.
Rub some oil on the new o-ring, and shove the new CPS into the hole - all the while guessing where the hole might be because I still can't really see it clearly through these blessed tri-focals. Put some ickum-pucky on the back of the screw to hold it in pace in the shield while I fish around trying to get the screw in the hole. HOLY DOODLE, what a job! Finally, FINALLY get the screw in the hole (all the while saying those same blue words referred to above) and tighten the whole works up. Great, just have to deal with the other end.
Try to follow the wire. Can't see (tri-focals again) so rip out battery and battery box. Some better. Deal with stupid little metal clamp - what genius thought THAT one up? Get to connector. Connector won't open. No way, no how. More blue words. More brute force and connector finally, FINALLY, opens. Old connector undone, old CPS unit removed from car, new connector installed, everything put back in place, everything just hunky-dory. Car starts and runs fine. Happy JohnPeg. Blue words now stopped.
Go in house and tell wife. That's when the discussion started about the difference between "starting" and "turning over". AACCCCKKKKK!!!!!!! Now she tells me that the car would start but then immediately quit! OH NOES!!!!!!
Think I'll have another big glass of single malt Scotch and contemplate things like . . . fuel pumps or fuel pressure regulators. Also going to practice those magic blue words some more.
Hope you enjoyed this.
Many thanks to all you people who have posted on this board over the years.
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