tempest411
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Discovery Bay, CA
Today I happened to have the engine running in my '88, insuring that it would run after I re-did some of the wiring. I had in my hand the CPS connector and was trying to figure out how to best tie it up and out of the way when the engine died. Long story short, after several restarts and further fiddling with the connector I figured out I had a bad connection between a pin and a socket. As near as I can figure I distorted or otherwise compromised the connection by jamming the probe of my meter into the CPS side connector while diagnosing a crank/no start condition. I replaced the mating pair with a Deutsch-tech set I had on hand and all is well. I doubt this was the source of all my problems I'd been having. Those seem to have gone away when I had all the fusible links apart and cleaned their connections...I've since replaced them all. But this is something to keep in mind when testing your CPS...You can actually create a poor connection by stabbing the pins with your meter. Who knew??