ECS question

[hotGTO]

Mine is a 91 RT/TT

[blindmist]

If you don't have the caps on, the ECS light will blink.

If your ECS isn't blinking, it is functioning.

[hotGTO]

This is the only image I have right now, I will take a better pic at lunch... PO states that the caps were only removed to install the strut bar and he does not know if they will fit, but might be able to be mounted on top of the strut bar. He says they may be original struts since he has never replaced them. I assume the rear caps are still on since I have that info. as I said, in sport mode I have no dash light on and in tour mode I have a "tour" light on the dash. I will go take more pics here in a few...

[jba3]

I don't see the wiring harness that goes to the strut tops, either. See here:



There's a wiring harness that goes to the black cover. My guess is that your light doesnt blink because they unhooked the ECS control module. IIRC, it's behind some of the plastic in the hatch area ... it got moved on the spyder, and I can never remember which is which....

[Nationalmilkman]

If you take the caps off the white part will be there. Non-ECS front struts have a black "button" there, not the white piece. Those are ECS struts and the control module is in back passenger side. You have to take out the trunk tray to get to the panel.

[blindmist]

I am amazed that you don't get a blinking light. If any of the 4 caps are not working, ECS should be blinking. Hmmm. Interesting.

[blindmist]

Thats the part that keeps buggin me, I'm trying to figure out why his lights are working as they should, they should be blinking. Maybe ECS computer is bad as well.

This is what I am thinking. I busted out my schematics for this car and the diagnostics and what not, ECS should be blinking if it see's the SLIGHTEST bit of error. It will even blink if it thinks that its gone down too far on the strut.

[mike92stealthtt]

If the capacitors aren't bad in your ecs computer by now I'd call yourself extremely lucky. Take that sucker out and look at the board. May as well look at your ecu board too.

Both of mine were bad a few years ago, and mines a 92.

[hotGTO]

Well, the battery died today, so I had to take the strut bar off to get the battery out... I left the strut bar off for now, and put the caps back on and plugged them in... The light on the dash still works the same, but I still have not verified if it functions to change the valving in the shocks or not...

[hotGTO]

Looks like everything works, I definitely see the difference... tour mode takes raised seems in the road better IMO, but I feel like the suspension itself is noisier in tour mode for some reason and since sport mode rides really soft anyway, I will stick to sport for the most part...