From: mendo_recce@ridgecrest.ca.us Subject: Digest for mendo_recce: 8/25/1996 Errors-To: owner-mendo_recce@ridgecrest.ca.us Reply-To: mendo_recce@ridgecrest.ca.us Precedence: bulk This is the digest for the mendo_recce mailling list ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------ From: Kelly Minnick Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 23:38:29 PDT Subject: RE: RR fuel pump > I'd like to know how to "hot wire" a bad sensor, for example: if a > particular sensor goes bad, do you: > a) short out the terminals > b) leave them open > c) insert some resistor (probably cheaper than a sensor) > in order to get you to the parts store/dealer to buy a new one. I'm > doing this on the assumption that it's impractical to carry one of each > sensor that may fail, but practical to carry a "universal" stub to get > you by. > > (I can't wait to start digging though the ETM....) > > -- Bob W. > Most ECU's have a limp home mode even if none of the sensors (except maybe the throttle position sensor) are working. You may use a lot of fuel, but you will go home - just ignore all those lights on the dash! Kelly Minnick ------------------------------------ From: Kelly Minnick Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 23:47:33 PDT Subject: Re: Fixing a Fuel pump in the field > > Gerry wrote that it is not an easy field fix to drop a full tank of fuel > (over 150 lbs on on my RR if the tank is close to full) to get to the pump. > Has any RR or D90 owner cut a hole in the floor of the rear loadspace area > to make an acces pannel to get to the fuel pump like the newer ('91-'95) RR's > and Discos (I think all years, but am not sure) have? > > Kevin Kelly > All SAAB 900's had an access hole with a cover plate with rubber seal to keep out water. Kelly Minnick ------------------------------------ From: Kelly Minnick Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 23:52:16 PDT Subject: Re: ECU Sensors > > >I'd like to know how to "hot wire" a bad sensor, for example: if a > >particular sensor goes bad, do you: > >a) short out the terminals > >b) leave them open > >c) insert some resistor (probably cheaper than a sensor) > > On most BMWs (with Bosch DME ECUs) if you just pull the wire to the sensor > the FI ECU goes in to a "default" mode. A trick used to test the O2 or Temp. > sensors is to pull the wire(s) and if the car runs better with the wire(s) > disconnected, the sensor is probably bad. Does the Lucas ECU do this?? > > Kevin Kelly > > Another trick is to measure the voltage with 10 Meg or better digital meter. Should be about .6 - .8 Volts. Also, to see if the ECU is really 'seeing' the O2, grab the input wire with your right hand and the + lead of the battery with your left. Don't remember if it speeds up or down right now. Have to look. Then short the input to the frame. It does the oppisite. Note: RR use the 'heated' sensors. Make sure you only do this to the input wire, and not the power wire to the heating element! Kelly Minnick (with not enough info - again) ------------------------------------ From: aland@ibm.net (Alan DuBoff) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 01:58:16 PDT Subject: Lake west of Old Sonoma Rd. off Hwy. 121 I got a Delorme Atlas and Gazette for Northern Ca. and looking through there I see a small lake that is off Hwy. 121, just west of Old Sonoma Rd. located between Sonoma and Napa. There is some type of dirt road or trail that goes from 121 to the lake, and the lake doesn't have a name on these maps. The trail looks like it heads up to a place called Milliken Peak. Is anyone familiar with that area and is that a public lake and/or trail to get to the lake ? I'm looking for some places that I can get to fairly easily with my son to go fishing. There are several small lakes around that only have access by an unimproved road or trail which I would like to elliminate a lot of the crowds that will be found at most fishing areas. Maybe I should be asking the question this way... Where would people reccomend to take my son fishing that we won't have to be a saliva dripping mud sloshin' rock crawling maniac to get there, but still able to get away from the highway. Another area I'm checking out on the map is Stony Creek which feeds from the Black Butte Reservoir (20 or 25 miles west of Chico). And another area is by Lake Sonoma, there seems to be some "jeep trails". Any comments on these or any other fairly easily accessible areas for fishing with my son would be appreciated. Alan DuBoff - OS/2 Advisor aland@ibm.net Bunker Hill Software ------------------------------------ From: Christine and Mehdi Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 09:56:35 -0700 Subject: subscribe ben can you add us to the list please ------------------------------------ From: jjbpears@ix.netcom.com (Jeremy Bartlett) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:57:06 -0700 Subject: Lazy B Mailing Delayed I've been swamped again at work (thinking about quitting just for the pleasure of doing so :) ), so I've not had time to get the badges into envelopes and out the door. But wait, there's more. I won't have a chance to do so until a week after the Portland meet (vacation and all). So some of you will get your badges at Portland (I'll be there). I'm sorry, but the rest will have to wait some more. cheers, Jeremy ------------------------------------ From: Doug.Forehand@Eng.Sun.COM (Douglas W. Forehand) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 19:41:12 -0700 Subject: directions to Portland all British meet Will someone please post the location of the meet and directions to it (coming from Calif on Interstate 5). Thanks Doug ------------------------------------ End of Digest