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Hey Morley,
Well, things have gotten a little more interesting with the situation.
Up until today, last night actually, this car always fired up and ran, flawlessly, even in 10* weather. Now all of the sudden, when cold, it will crank over, struggle to stay alive then die. Bear in mind I currently don't dirve it every day not very practical/economical for my commute, so I have to work with what my wife tells me happened. She also indicated that out of nowhere on the way home last night it "lost alot of power".
Based on how far she was away, I can only assume that it lost power when it went into closed loop. ???
So, this morning, before I go to work I go to check out her complaint that "it feels like a spark plug wire came off". They are fine. Fire the motor, barely catches, sputters, dies. Repeat a few times, same procedure, same result. So, finally getting aggravated I goose the throttle to keep it living, and it does, AND, low and behold, the damn fan is running, continually. Still trying to varify the loss of power complaint, goose the throttle a couple of times, and there is a lag in throttle response, kind of like no advance OR delayed fuel pump response (remember my phantom fuse "fan/FP"?).
So, in curiosity, I cut the motor off. Restart, fires right up. Idle seems different, goose throttle, lag in repsonse is gone? Oh, and the fan has gone dead again (which it s/b at this temp).
Shut it off and refire. Idle has changed back to the first run, lag in throttle response returns, and the damn fan is cycling now???WTF???
If you look at the link I gave you yesterday or the general schematic for that fact, here's what I find, but can't figure why these new problems, combined with the fan are intermittent, one start there, next start gone.
G119 (ground I believe near firewall or head) we have grounded together, MAF, MAF burnoff relay (hard start?), fan pressure switch, fuel pump relay, and ESC module ("loss of power" complaint?)
I'm not a electircal genious here, but would you go with the ground situation here, of the phantom Fan/FP fuse?
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