Car stalling when pressing foot on throttle?

**green-lantern** · 05-20-2015, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by rfultz2

1992 theres no CEL, and I had a shop put in the ecu and order the ecu

Mine threw no CEL's but was doing something like yours. It was leaking caps. If I was you I'd pull the ECU and check it first. The 1st gen ECU's are notorious for leaking caps.

Do you know where they got the ECU? Also what was the car doing before this? Would it run at all? The more history about the car the better we can help.

**rfultz2** · 05-20-2015, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by green-lantern

Mine threw no CEL's but was doing something like yours. It was leaking caps. If I was you I'd pull the ECU and check it first. The 1st gen ECU's are notorious for leaking caps.

Do you know where they got the ECU? Also what was the car doing before this? Would it run at all? The more history about the car the better we can help.

The car was running the day of purchase the guy was driving it to me and it broke down, first we could get it to turn on but it would stall out unless you held foot on gas so we cleaned the IAC, then it wouldn't start took it to a shop they said it was the ecu, they put in ecu and i'm at where I am now how do I check for leaking caps? Also I don't hear chattering from the ecu, I'm going to give it a smell test when I get home to see if it smells like its leaking.

**stealthee** · 05-20-2015, 01:42 PM

Stealth 316 - ECM Removal

**rfultz2** · 05-20-2015, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by stealthee

Stealth 316 - ECM Removal

I haven't noticed any clicking or anything of that sort. and I don't smell anything what do I do if they gave me a bad ecu?

**stealthee** · 05-20-2015, 03:04 PM

Take it back and make them either give you a refund or fix it.

**green-lantern** · 05-21-2015, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by rfultz2

I haven't noticed any clicking or anything of that sort. and I don't smell anything what do I do if they gave me a bad ecu?

I couldn't smell mine. It wasn't leaking bad ether. You have to look pretty closely. If the shop put a used ECU in the car it could very well be the caps.

If you can solder it can be repaired pretty easily and cheap. If not then there are people that will do it. I know a guy that will probably do it.

Edit: I asked somebody what else it could be if the CAP's are not leaking. He might post here or I'll tell you what he said.