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LEAKYSEALS951 03-11-2023 12:49 PM

^Thanks. I'm going to have a beer to celebrate.

Gas level working again.
CEL is still not working. But, is that a bad thing? How many times in my life have I just wanted the CEL to go away. I feel like the kid in home alone wishing his parents away.

Perhaps car is saying "you never paid attention to the CEL for the last 260k, why bother now?

Perhaps it's a secret level of car ownership that gets unlocked once you've replaced everything. The CEL simply goes away. ;)

I do want to thank everyone (again) for the help. Especially with the simple idea of a compression check. The mechanic who told me it had 50-80 psi in 2018 is a talented high end mechanic. I don't know what happened there, but ive been terrified to do a compression check since, feeling like I was running on borrowed time. I fixed the car back then on a gut instinct. Recently, the low MAF signals, missing at idle, lack of negative pressure on the pcv was all adding up in my head, especially since I had replaced all of that before. Coming clean before you guys forced me to get off my arse, face my compression fears, and see what it really was.

1990C4S 03-11-2023 12:54 PM

CEL 'on briefly' when you start the car indicates the ECU is 'working'. Beyond that, it's annoying. Unless it should be flashing and the bulb is effed.

Your engine is probably about 240,000 miles from being mildly worn out.

masraum 03-11-2023 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951 (Post 11944472)
I dropped the crowsfoot into some dastardly crevice, went fishing with a magnet, and came up with a 10mm socket that went missing in 2018. The crowsfoot is still in there. I will go fishing again tomorrow.

Only weird thing is the right side of my instrument cluster went dead. No fuel tank level. No CEL. I'll deal with that later.

Pics of LS's car

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LEAKYSEALS951 03-11-2023 01:03 PM

^LOL my cars are the zombie apocolypse car fleet of the undead!!!!!!

manbridge 74 03-11-2023 06:41 PM

One thing, high end techs don’t rely on compression numbers alone, but start with leak down. Preferably with engine cold.

Glad you got it going…


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