1995 Accord LX bad ECU/bad wire in harness?
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1995 Accord LX bad ECU/bad wire in harness?
Hello all, I have a 1995 accord LX with the automatic transmission. I bought the car about 2 months ago for $600, seller stated it needed an ECU. When I first got the car, the car would start and run perfectly until it warmed up, then the car would shut off and wouldn’t restart until you let it cool off. Then, out of nowhere one day, the car wouldn’t start at all. It would crank and crank but never start. When it would start, it would die immediately. It would throw CEL codes 15 and 41, and TCU codes 1, 7, 8, 13 and 14. At the time of this happening, I had already put a new ignition switch, a new main relay, a new fuel pump, new spark plugs, new plug wires, new ignition coil (obviously external on this car) cleaned and reattached all grounds and redone main ground running from negative battery terminal to transmission. Then I noticed the main relay was not kicking on to prime the pump. It would eventually kick on and prime the pump, sometimes it would take 30 seconds, sometimes it would take 5 minutes. That’s when I would get the start and immediately die accompanied by CEL code 15. I purchased a remanufactured ECU from a verified seller on eBay, and that did not solve the issue. So I put in an entirely new distributor and that solved the issue for a day, but now I’m back to square one. Car will randomly decide it wants to start and when it does, it runs fine! And after running for a bit, main relay kicks on immediately after turning key to “on” position.
im sort of at a loss of where to go now, could the reman. ECU I bought be bad? Bad wire somewhere in the harness?
thanks in advance!
edit: also worth noting the TCU throws a code 14 for the FAS wire. In the past, I have verified the Brown/white FAS wire appears to be in fine shape.
im sort of at a loss of where to go now, could the reman. ECU I bought be bad? Bad wire somewhere in the harness?
thanks in advance!
edit: also worth noting the TCU throws a code 14 for the FAS wire. In the past, I have verified the Brown/white FAS wire appears to be in fine shape.
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thank you for the reply, I ended up throwing a junkyard ECU and TCU in the car and it solved the issue.
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