hi all, its been quite a while since i've been on this forum (formally fastbenni78 but for some reason i cant log in) but my trusted jackaroo has let me down and i need your thoughts.
the other day i left my house,(engine cold) and the car suddenly lost power and blew heaps of white smoke after leaving the driveway. i pulled over, shut it down, fired it back up and it was good for the rest of the drive. i put it down to not being driven for a couple of weeks and battery being dead as a maggot.
i fired it up again this morning, it idled perfect for about 30 seconds, then started running really rough with heaps of white smoke again and no throtle response. no throtle makes me think this is an ORPS problem again. now it is really hard to start and un drivable. i havnt cut the white wire, i am not exactly sure where it is and i dont like the idea of hacking my wiring harness for such an important wire.
the check engine light has been coming on for the last 2 months but the car has been perfect so i put it down to tps failure. same symptoms as last time the tps failed but i havnt checked the codes yet.
i know the ORPS doesnt leave error codes. where is the best place (cheapest of coarse) to get another ORPS? i think my last 1 was about $250 from holden. i am not in a hurry for this 1 so it come from overseas. i am in america from thursday for a few weeks and i am hoping i could get 1 while i am there.
now i remember the tps brought the check engine light on about 2 months before my last ORPS failed. could this be coinsidense that the same has happened again or could the 2 failures be related. has anyone else had these two failures so close together like me???
thanks for your help.
the other day i left my house,(engine cold) and the car suddenly lost power and blew heaps of white smoke after leaving the driveway. i pulled over, shut it down, fired it back up and it was good for the rest of the drive. i put it down to not being driven for a couple of weeks and battery being dead as a maggot.
i fired it up again this morning, it idled perfect for about 30 seconds, then started running really rough with heaps of white smoke again and no throtle response. no throtle makes me think this is an ORPS problem again. now it is really hard to start and un drivable. i havnt cut the white wire, i am not exactly sure where it is and i dont like the idea of hacking my wiring harness for such an important wire.
the check engine light has been coming on for the last 2 months but the car has been perfect so i put it down to tps failure. same symptoms as last time the tps failed but i havnt checked the codes yet.
i know the ORPS doesnt leave error codes. where is the best place (cheapest of coarse) to get another ORPS? i think my last 1 was about $250 from holden. i am not in a hurry for this 1 so it come from overseas. i am in america from thursday for a few weeks and i am hoping i could get 1 while i am there.
now i remember the tps brought the check engine light on about 2 months before my last ORPS failed. could this be coinsidense that the same has happened again or could the 2 failures be related. has anyone else had these two failures so close together like me???
thanks for your help.