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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:44 pm 
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I had the same problem with my EL when I had it. The car would cut out with no warning and at times would not start, would just wind over. Turned out to be the ingition relay.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:06 pm 
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It will be your hall pickup sensor inside the dizzy, it picks up the chopper disk rotation inside the dizzy.

Gregory's manual says if you replace a faulty tfi module the hall pickup sensor should also be replaced.

I have seen a friends car that got a tfi module replaced, 3 weeks later it died again, was the hall sensor pickup.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:11 pm 
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Had similar problem with my EL XR8 ended up replacing the battery and has been fine ever since.

 

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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:47 pm 
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Battery already done !

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:33 pm 
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Update-car died totally last night (but started again this morning)-when it died-no spark (confirmed), had no other tools to test anything else.
have found NEW dizzy on e-bay for $65 delivered, will try it tomorrow when I get it-bloody hope this works !!!!! REALLY getting sick of it letting me down !!

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:28 pm 
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you said u replaced coil packs?

65 bucks for a dizzy?? damn! nice price.
deos that include cap, rotor etc??
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:29 pm 
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Coil was replaced about 2 mths ago, along with module.
here's the link for the dizzy:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... %3AIT&rd=1

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:32 pm 
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oops-try this one;
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-FALCON-EA-EB ... dZViewItem

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:34 pm 
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I'm having a similar problem at the moment, I've replaced the hall sensor as the one on it went open circuit (required a tow :( ), replaced tfi from my spares box, done the coil.

I'm getting error code 211 (erratic pip signal) which is what I had when the hall sensor went, but now its back. I went for a 10km drive tonight and the car cut out 3 times, and after a few cranks it decided to go again as if nothing had happened.

Which relay is the ignition relay under the coolant bottle?

 

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:44 am 
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I had that EXACT problem for 6 months in my old EA. It turned out to be the fuel pump relay and/or the ECU relay. I can't remember which one. Because the problem was intermittent, was very hard to diagnose. I'd check those relays...
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:41 am 
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well did new dizzy fix problem??

whats the quality & brand of the dizzy - for $65 delivered seems a good deal

does it include new hall sensor/tpi module
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:09 pm 
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XtRmn8 wrote:
I had the same problem with my EL when I had it. The car would cut out with no warning and at times would not start, would just wind over. Turned out to be the ingition relay.


Does the ignition relay control power to the cluster as well? If that's the case, then it sounds an awful lot like whats happening to my EF...

 

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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:07 pm 
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Dizzy seems to have fixed it now-BUT now have bad idle at ligths SOMETIMES now !!! If I restrt it-comes good?????
Any suggestions here?

 

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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:29 pm 
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wot do u mean restrict?

next time its running like s**t try kinking the return fuel line, if it picks up u have a fuel supply prob. just a suggestion, not saying it definalty that.
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another thought, if its sputtering and carring on and stuff it still could be the fuel pump becase it will run on the residual line pressure for a little bit. but with that said could be electrical aswell. hope it helps
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:50 pm 
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I think he ment restart

 

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