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tda13

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Well it finally happened. 151,000 miles on my 97 and last night the check engine light did not go out when I started the car. Before I have it put on the heart monitor today, any body got any easy checks to look at?

Thanks
Tim
 
did you check to see if the engine is there? :p

it can be a number of things with that much mileage I would definitely replace your o2's and probably give that thing a tune up depending on the last time you did it......and maybe run some seafoam through it ;)
 
O2 sensors was my first thoght.

I stopped by Autozone and got a reading. Says there is a problem with the air flow from the air pump. Said to check the air pump circuit first then for vacume leaks and then the air pump it self.

Anyone ever ran into this problem?
 
I did but it was because I installed headers and my o2's weren't getting a fresh supply of air upon start up. Didn't say if it was bank 1 or 2? I'd say replace the o2's and go from there. I think the air pump is that thing that sits in front of the crank pulley. Not sure how to test it though. could check to see if the lines from it are broken or not.
 
Seafoam my affect your 02's but I'd would replace the 02's... Another project I have going on my 95... but don't buy the 02's from Autozone... you'll be sorry...

Don't buy from autozone anyway... it's like buying from Wal-Mart unless you are getting car wax or engine oil.. but don't ask them to find what you need dang autozone retards...
 
Ran Seafoam thru about two months ago.

I'm going to track down the vacume lines to see if I can find anything and then go to the O2 sensors. I still have the cat with O2s in it, the rest is straight pipes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the genII, the only O2s are in the cat.... right?

Tim
 
you have 4 o2's 2 up stream before the cats, and 2 down stream after the cats :shifty:
 
Just go back and borrow their code reader and delete the codes as most times that the code is thrown it is due to loose gas cap, cheap gas or some other silly happening that means nothing. You won't hurt anything as it is only used to inject some air into your exhaust sytem on start up, and any little glitch requires about a dozen restarts to reset the alarm.
 
Well, my check engine light has went out. I'm glad, but now everytime I just keep waiting for it to come back on... my son says its just burnt out.

Not sure what the problem was. Car never did perform any differently.

Tim
 
I think the car might warn you when the bulb is burned out.

Such as it does with the airbag light.

You get a new dinger to listen to.
 
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