Artemus wrote:
"Snag" wrote in message
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Buerste wrote:
Something doesn't work so you take it apart and troubleshoot all the
components. You can't find anything wrong so you put it back
together and...IT WORKS PERFECT! It has happened to me for forever
but what's going on? My latest is the icemaker in the kitchen
refrigerator. I spent hours and hours finding documents and
troubleshooting. No, it wasn't frozen-up, (the most common fault
it seems) the motor worked, the thermostat checked out, the heater
passed muster. The water valve is OK and all cleaned out. (I've
replaced plenty of those in different units over the years). Of
course, I find nothing else that could cause it to crap out so put
it all back together and...it works just fine. Go figure. I've
had hundreds if not thousands of this kind of thing, I'll bet
everybody else does too!

I just went thru a whole damned to hell and beyond day doing just
that with my wife's car . Never did find anything wrong , but after
unplug-plugging a buncha connectors it runs again . Damn thing has a
PCM that controls *everything* . Died on her this am on her way to
work , and I'm sure glad it was close enough for her to walk home !
Still don't know why it died , but it runs now so ...
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Snag
Wannabe Machinist

An easy to overlook problem is the ground connections. Weird ****
happens with poor/intermittent/missing grounds.
Art

The first thing I check is the grounds and battery hot leads , always ,
just because thar's quite often where the problem is . What made this one
worse was that it was intermittent . Only thing I can figger is that one of
those connector blocks had a bad connection . As in your post above ...
thought I found it earlier when I was under the dash and checking ig switch
connections . Then it started malfing again ... sure hope it's fixed now ,
the wife needs to get to work tomorrow .

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Snag
Wannabe Machinist