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tmontague · 05-23-2015, 08:46 AM

Update:

Solved!!!

Sorry for taking so long to get this written up, been a busy week.

My mechanic looked at it and found out something weird with the Echo. When his computer was hooked up the engine would run perfectly fine. With it disconnected it wouldn't start or stall out. He said because it was running fine before I worked on it that it is likely a diconnected ground and his computer was grounding it which is why it would run when plugged in.

He found a loose ground on the cylinder head and once tightened it started fine. I didn't speak with the mechanic to find out which ground it was but when I picked up the car there were no new ground connected so it would've been one of the two on the drivers side of the engine block that grounds the ignition and EFI system. Hence the no spark and no fuel problem.

When driving the car home it ran fine except for an exhaust leak (likely from CAA towing it) Since I don't have a welder I took it to a local exhaust shop. They claimed it had a leaking pipe before the muffler and a leaking muffler.

Got it fixed and it runs great again. $200 for the mechanic and $250 for the exhaust. I have the old exhaust pieces and I can't see a leak in the old muffler which still looks in fairly good shape. Is there any way of finding out if it was leaking or not? I want to make sure I wasn't fed some bs.

It just turned over 350,000km and i'm looking to get 400,000km out of it. On my to do list for it is inner and outer tie rods and a bad engine mount.

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05-23-2015, 08:46 AM	#40
tmontague View User's Garage Drives: '08 2zr swapped Vios M/T Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Caledonia Ont. Posts: 2,938	Update: Solved!!! Sorry for taking so long to get this written up, been a busy week. My mechanic looked at it and found out something weird with the Echo. When his computer was hooked up the engine would run perfectly fine. With it disconnected it wouldn't start or stall out. He said because it was running fine before I worked on it that it is likely a diconnected ground and his computer was grounding it which is why it would run when plugged in. He found a loose ground on the cylinder head and once tightened it started fine. I didn't speak with the mechanic to find out which ground it was but when I picked up the car there were no new ground connected so it would've been one of the two on the drivers side of the engine block that grounds the ignition and EFI system. Hence the no spark and no fuel problem. When driving the car home it ran fine except for an exhaust leak (likely from CAA towing it) Since I don't have a welder I took it to a local exhaust shop. They claimed it had a leaking pipe before the muffler and a leaking muffler. Got it fixed and it runs great again. $200 for the mechanic and $250 for the exhaust. I have the old exhaust pieces and I can't see a leak in the old muffler which still looks in fairly good shape. Is there any way of finding out if it was leaking or not? I want to make sure I wasn't fed some bs. It just turned over 350,000km and i'm looking to get 400,000km out of it. On my to do list for it is inner and outer tie rods and a bad engine mount.