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I too have a n/a 89. I have had many intermittent no starts problems. More than all my other 900s combined. The diagnostic guide in the Bentley never positively identified a fault in all my problems. In your particular situation, you may want to try swapping the air mass meter with a known good one. If that doesn't work, here are some other items to check that are mostly specific to 88s and 89s.
A few points
. many 89s had "bad" ECUs. They usually fail with a persistent no start but not always
. 89 (and some 88) had an ignition amplifier. There was a service bulletin for fixing the ground. (See the Townsend site)
. Check the routing of the low voltage coil wires. They should not touch each other and be routed as far away from each other as possible
. Check the ground wires on the head near the AIC valve.
(Zig might think I'm the kind of guy who gets a flat tire and has to swap out three tires to find the bad one but sometimes that's the way things go with intermittent problems. :)
Posts in this Thread:
- So my car just decided to up and quit., Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 05:17:43
- LH ECU faulty, Siegfried, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:01:47
- I would definitely suspect the ECU, Robster501 , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:22:03
- Re: LH ECU faulty, Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:07:19
- Hold on a minute - Flashing indicates an EZK fault, RS , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:28:31
- wire 686 GL 0.5: ECU:26 <-> Instruments:13, Siegfried, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:39:09
- Zig, I disagree. Real men think what's LIKELY first..., RayF, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:43:01
- Re:, Siegfried, Tue, 6 Nov 2012 06:40:53
- ee101, Snowmobile , Tue, 6 Nov 2012 12:35:14
- Re: wire 686 GL 0.5: ECU:26 <-> Instruments:13, Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:42:54
- Re:, Siegfried, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:00:56
- Re: Re:, Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:19:00
- Re:, Siegfried, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:39:53
- Re: Re:, Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:52:05
- made it home - barely, Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 15:29:34
- Re:, Siegfried, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:38:46
- Re: Re:, Gigantor , Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:58:11
- my 2 cents, PaulS , Wed, 7 Nov 2012 22:04:48 <-- Viewing This Message
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