2001 Eclipse 3.0L this one should be fun
I have a 2001 eclipse in my shop and I'm having some what a problem. the
customer had me pick it up and from what I could tell was that the cat was
plugged. it was running half way decent and then about 2 miles started
loosing power. when I pulled up to a stop light I had to keep on the gas or it
would die. customer said that they did a timing belt and it was running fine
untill that time. it did die on me once when I was heading to my shop and
would not start until I put it put the pedal all the way to the floor. smelled like
the exhaust was getting hot to that is why I was thinking cat.
ok so after I got it to my shop I first checked the timing and it is right on. aI
called the customer and asked if the belt broke and he said no he just
wanted to replace it. all timing marks lined up. I didn't trust that so I pulled
the intake and did a compression test 145 LBS across the board pulled the
rear cat and clean with no sign of cloging or melting of the matrix. checked
the codes before all this and had a P0300 code random misfire. this lead
me back to the misfire so I checked the cap and rotor. these both were
trashed so I replaced them with a new set of wires and plugs. tested the
injectors to leave no stone un turned and the came out .16 to .15 continuity
on my multi meter across the board so these are good have done this in the
past looking for one value to be higher or lower means usually bad fuel
injector. I put back the cat the intake did the tune up. figured that this is
done started the car and boom still running the same as before like I did
nothing to it. I cleared the code and it came back P0300. this is the only
code that came up. I ran my MT2500 brick on it and started playing with the
injectors here is where I seem to get lost. I cut power with my scanner to
injector 1,3,5 and there is a noticeable change instantly major drop in RPM
almost dies now I cut power to 2,4,6 injectors and the change is slow to
change in RPM dropping no instant drop here. what do you guys
think??????????
