SenorNoob's '88 Ext Cab "Build"


Found something interesting.

That's an Intel 8061 processor.
There is a relevant book here. <--PDF Warning
 
Maybe. That's why I said not to take my comment too seriously. But my thought is that the pcm is trying to calculate how long to open the injectors. If the pressure is steady, that's easy. If the pressure keeps changing willy-nilly, how do you calculate how much fuel will flow through an injector in 0.xxx second?

Or maybe I just don't know squat about this.
It really depends on how the system works, most current stuff uses a constant fuel pressure because the injector drivers are more precise and such but back in the day they used a thing called "injector tip delta pressure" which pretty much stayed the same with a vacuum compensated fuel pressure regulator. This allowed to have bigger duty cycles at all the time so the calculations were easier... That pretty much went away when the evaporative emissions requirements pretty much made them put the fuel pressure regulator at the fuel tank to run returnless fuel systems to have less surface area of fuel lines

That said the dropping of fuel pressure at key off doesn't surprise me, gas is nearly incompressible as a liquid and the only thing holding the pressure is the check valve on the outlet of the high pressure pump, if it's seat isn't perfect it doesn't take a whole lot of volume to drop fast...

Don't know if that's OBD II or not, I'm guessing no but I learned a fun thing on my '97 Ranger last year when I was having a hard time accelerating when it was hot out, the spark advance was going to 5 degrees after top dead center (IE my OBD II reader was showing -5 advance) when it was hot out, I put a resistor across the air temp sensor making it think it's 80F out and it drives great!
 
This definitely has a vacuum referenced FPR.

The more I look at it, the more I think this PCM "should" handle live data. At like 1 per second data rates not really live, but close enough for my purposes. Unfortunately the last scanner that could read it seems to have been discontinued around 2000. Bosch 1300.
 
Washed out under the hood the other day and it wouldn't start afterwards. Gave it like 5-10 minutes and it started fine. Went back the next day and drowned the coil pack and crankshaft position sensor and it started fine. Then wouldn't 10 minutes later. Tach was moving slightly while cranking so I'm guessing the CPS was working. Fuel pumps were running enough for the FPR to do things and let pressure back to the tank. (I could hear it spraying back into the tank.) Then on the drive to the creek it was missing right as I went to take a left turn. Cleared up some as soon as the g-forces went away. Makes me think something has to be loose. It's really weird that all this started after getting some bad gas...

Actron CP9190 is supposed to be on the way. It does live data on these. Hopefully my PCM does. I know the 91 harness has the wiring for it. I wouldn't think Ford would've had it on the Explorer in 91 then removed it for 92, but ya never know...

Toss up now as to whether it just dies before the scanner gets here or not. (Estimated delivery on Wednesday. I have a Dr. appointment and grocery shopping on Thursday so it'll probably be Friday before I hook it up.
 

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