Re: [alfa] Re: Dead GTV-6, stymied mechanics

["Gwynne W. Spencer" <gwynnes1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not know much about the fuel system / ignition in a GTV6, but I had at 
one time a 1981 BMW 528i with Bosch L-Jetronic injection and an electronic 
ignition system with a pickup coil in the distributor and separate 
electronic module.  The car would just plain die when it got hot. Cost me a 
bundle for mechanics that knew little about diagnosing problems of this 
nature and long flat bed tows home. I took my "heat gun" and went looking 
for the problem. It turned out to be the pickup coil in the distributor for 
the ignition. It would open up when it got hot.

Gwynne Spencer

At 10:17 PM 3/30/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>When my GTV-6 did this it was the ignition switch (!).
>
>George Graves
>'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
>
>
>
>On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:31 PM, alfa-digest wrote:
>
> >
> > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:55:01 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>
> > Subject: [alfa] Dead GTV-6, stymied mechanics
> >
> > First, my apologies for double posting--I wasn't sure which address for
> > the Digest was correct.
> >
> > A few weeks ago my GTV-6 (Milano 2.5 engine) stopped dead and acted as
> > if the fuel pump had failed ---it would start, run feebly, and die if
> > you tried to give it gas.
> >
> > Mechanic number 1 replaced the filter (he didn't ask if the one in
> > there was new, which it was!) replaced the double relay, and told me it
> > was fine.
> >
> > Two days later it died on the freeway.
> >
> > Towed to mechanic two, who replaced the ignition module (on the left
> > front fender toward the front) checked the injectors (they were all
> > pulsing) the fuel pressure, the oxygen sensor wire, and went through
> > everything in the Alfa diagnostic book he could find. Somehow, between
> > the evening before, when there was feeble spark (which he fixed) but
> > the injectors were pulsing fine, the next morning the injectors stopped
> > pulsing. He has swapped the ECU for another. He is now baffled, says I
> > have to tow the car away from his shop, and that he can't find the
> > problem.
> >
> > As a result, I missed the Laguna time trial and lost (or didn't get
> > anything for) a bunch of money.
> >
> > Please, someone out there tell us where to look--Two mechanics and one
> > owner are baffled!!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alan Lambert
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