M60 engine trouble :(

[BillionPa]

well, i guess it would depend on the age of the other sensor, but the bmw replacement interval is 50K miles, and bosch says 75K miles. i would say if they are both over 30K miles, and one goes kaput, replace both.

hopefully when he tests out his FPR, he will do a fuel pressure test forward and backward.

[Traian]

Well, thanks for the help y'all, but i think this one's a little beyond me...

I couldn't even disconnect the battery haha, both of the wire terminals are like welded to the posts. Not only that, but when i started unscrewing the little bolt, the four way flashers came on (some security feature), and they didn't go off after i screwed it back on, or turned on the engine, or whatever. So they're still going off now like an hour later, battey will probably be dead any minute now. That's one way to do a reset I guess....

Also, I foudn a fuel pressure tester at Canadian Tire, but can't for the life of me make out where they heck I'm supposed to use it. I'm not good at this stuff.

Last thing is that it's like -5 outside and my hands are turning purple.

I'd be happy to let the car sit over the winter and just ride the bus around, but I work in another town and my friend's are coming over for the break and I promised I'd take them to Montreal... This sux lol.

[winfred]

hit the flasher button on and back off this should turn off the flashers

Well, thanks for the help y'all, but i think this one's a little beyond me...

I couldn't even disconnect the battery haha, both of the wire terminals are like welded to the posts. Not only that, but when i started unscrewing the little bolt, the four way flashers came on (some security feature), and they didn't go off after i screwed it back on, or turned on the engine, or whatever. So they're still going off now like an hour later, battey will probably be dead any minute now. That's one way to do a reset I guess....

Also, I foudn a fuel pressure tester at Canadian Tire, but can't for the life of me make out where they heck I'm supposed to use it. I'm not good at this stuff.

Last thing is that it's like -5 outside and my hands are turning purple.

I'd be happy to let the car sit over the winter and just ride the bus around, but I work in another town and my friend's are coming over for the break and I promised I'd take them to Montreal... This sux lol.

[632 Regal]

LOL! I think the dudes feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment...

hit the flasher button on and back off this should turn off the flashers

[winfred]

figured id atleast try to solve that problem, usually cycling the flasher switch turns the flashers off on the later cars after the car looses power, i think it has to do with how the relay is powered where it seems to default to on

LOL! I think the dudes feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment...

[Traian]

figured id atleast try to solve that problem, usually cycling the flasher switch turns the flashers off on the later cars after the car looses power, i think it has to do with how the relay is powered where it seems to default to on

Lol you guys crack me up. Thanks winfred, you're right that fixed it. Now for anyone who still cares, here's the rest of the story:

I took the car to my closest indy and he spend a day on it, tested fuel pressure, the fuel pump, the regulator, the O2 sensors, he drove it, his cousin drove it, his dad drove it, so did his wife, and their children, and their pets, and they found nothing. I picked her up and she drove fine. The only thing they ended up doing is resetting the codes.

The funny part happened about an hour later in another town, when i decided to be 'cool' and peel away from this stop sign on a deserted country road. When i hit about 80 i took my foot off the gas but she kept wanting more! 100,110,120,130 by this point i had my foot on the brake, thinking about that poor sap that drove around for half an hour like this and finally crashed into a barn cuz he never thought to kill the motor. I really didn't want to do that, but pulling the pedal up didn't help, and putting it into neutral just made it race to the revlimiter. So I cut the engine.

It turned out the throttle cable had stuck on one of the clips that holds the engine cover. On the way back the pedal would not return to the origin, so i had to drive with one foot under it to stop acceleration. But if I only hit the gas a bit, it acted a lot like a cruise control. Fuel mileage was excellent.

I took it back and they lubed the pedal assembly and the throttle junction where the cable attaches and just worked the pedal back and forth until it recentered itself.

All okay now, I hope.... what a weird week

[632 Regal]

wouldnt seem too funny unless i was on a freeway...

at lest you are zeroing in on it.

[quote=Traian]

The funny part happened about an hour later in another town, when i decided to be 'cool' and peel away from this stop sign on a deserted country road. When i hit about 80 i took my foot off the gas but she kept wanting more! 100,110,120,130 by this point i had my foot on the brake, thinking about that poor sap that drove around for half an hour like this and finally crashed into a barn cuz he never thought to kill the motor./quote]

[JKBe30m3]

My fuel pump went out and caused the same problems. It didn't act like the fuel pump at first because in ran sometimes and sometimes I would be out driving and it would go into limp mode or stall and die. I replaced PCV, fuel filters, intake manifold gaskets, etc. etc. But when I took it in to have it looked at because I was stumped it was just the fuel pump. It's an expensive one though. Good luck!