Grrr.... the T/A left me stranded last night

[Joe 1320]

It's been running fine, left work to pick up my son, hit the drive through for dinner and stopped by my office. Shut it off, came out after a half hour and wouldn't even hold idle. A couple more ties and she won't fire at all. No codes either. I suspect its a case of Opticus Destructus. To make it worse, AAA took over 2½ hours to get to me. Oh well, time to tear into it.

[wolfdogs]

what color "ties" did you try? I prefer the wildlife edition serious, they have pics 0f cute little critters on them.......










opti........... me guessy.

let us know.


sorry that happend..... but, as you know, now and then, "they" get us.

[Joe 1320]

what color "ties" did you try? I prefer the wildlife edition serious, they have pics 0f cute little critters on them.......



opti........... me guessy.

let us know.


sorry that happend..... but, as you know, now and then, "they" get us.

ok... so I don't use spell check.

Everything breaks eventually. I would have thought this one would get me more than 40K. Might be time to look into that Delteq.

[Steel2686]

That's too bad, Joe. Hopefully it's something simple, but as you already stated, it's probably the opti.

At least you have a few spare F-bodies to drive around while you fix this one.

[thenuge876]

That stinks that you got suck there man, but hey, everytime something breaks, it gives us an excuse to build it up better (and unfortunately more expensive) for next time!

[Y2KHAWK]

At least it wasn't out in the middle of now where.

[Jeff_in_Atl]

I would think the OPTI would throw a code if it died. I'm wondering more about something like the coil or coil wire.

Oh yea, "get that great GM feeling." LOL I used to say that all the time when I drove a Ford and a GM owner would say something about their car dieing.

[Joe 1320]

Spent a couple of minutes with it this morning. The scanner reads the computer. No codes, Sensors appear normal. 44 psi fuel pressure, an no spark from the coil. So far, that's all I had time for.

[Trans Am]

coil, icm maybe?

[Rhode Island Red]

gladicus thaticus my-icus LS1-icus uses-icus coilicus packicus

I feel for you, Hope that you can get the 'Bird 'soarin' again

[Flamin' bird]

ok... so I don't use spell check.

Everything breaks eventually. I would have thought this one would get me more than 40K. Might be time to look into that Delteq.

Ken should'nt even talk about spelling. He's horrible at it. Look how he ALWAYS spells the word tomorrow!

[fastTa]

See if you can borrow a scope from someone, or maybe a local parts store that you know. Some scanners will only show active codes by default, and you have to manually tell the scanner to look for stored codes that were set, but are now inactive. Maybe a noid light on the injectors as well just to see what's going on.

[Joe 1320]

I should be able to run though things with a digital volt meter and narrow it down. It's finding the time to do it. My job at the moment has me slammed. I might be able to get to it this weekend.

[Craig 94 TA GT]

That really sucks Joe
But I'm glad you got it home ok. I never knew an opti could go south with no notice or no codes.

[casey02ws6]

What is this "Opti" that you speak of

I hope you get it figured out!