07-15-2004, 07:41 PM
Hello all! I picked up a 87 TC with 115000 on it. The story was that it had been sitting for years 5+ and wasn't running very well at all. I pulled the exhaust man. and turbo out to inspect everything looked good except a seized waste gate. I took care of all of that and now have some more problems to take care of before I can get this thing on the road and see what it will do [Image: smile.gif]
First of all.... the car will start with little problems and run just fine for about 3 seconds... then it goes into a nasty loaping idle.... i can very carefully get the r's up and it runs like crap until about 3000 rpm after that, no problem ... lots of power. It seems that simultaneously (when the ruff idle occurs) that the check engine light begins to blink steadily, approx. once a second, with no change in the frequency.
I am new to turbo cars, although I am quite an accomplished "back yard" mechanic, I've never seen a check engine light do that before and I was wondering if you guys would have any suggestions on the diagnosis of my problem.
Thanks,
Kris
p.s. this NATO site is sweet.... I'm glad I found it [Image: smile.gif] [Image: smile.gif]
First of all.... the car will start with little problems and run just fine for about 3 seconds... then it goes into a nasty loaping idle.... i can very carefully get the r's up and it runs like crap until about 3000 rpm after that, no problem ... lots of power. It seems that simultaneously (when the ruff idle occurs) that the check engine light begins to blink steadily, approx. once a second, with no change in the frequency.
I am new to turbo cars, although I am quite an accomplished "back yard" mechanic, I've never seen a check engine light do that before and I was wondering if you guys would have any suggestions on the diagnosis of my problem.
Thanks,
Kris
p.s. this NATO site is sweet.... I'm glad I found it [Image: smile.gif] [Image: smile.gif]