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CEL
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:05 pm
by J-Villa
i pulled a check engine light....and i know why and fixed and all of that...but how do you get it to go away? i thought you just had to disconnect the battery and re hook it back up to get rid of it...someone please chime in
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:09 pm
by Diablo0
What code you getting? If there's a real problem it won't go away until its fixed
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:30 pm
by J-Villa
i did fix it....i'm pulling a vacumm leak i think code 1299
b/c when i hooked my old shit up i tried runnin my 60mm tb and the bellow tube fell off while taking it for a test drive....which causes the cel and i since put all my stock stuff on and now everything is working....
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:21 pm
by Baal
the cel should go away if you reset the ecu, if it doesnt its very likely the leak isnt fixed.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:49 pm
by J-Villa
how do you reset the ecu? unhook the battery for 5 minutes?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:16 pm
by AntiFreeze Neon
actually if im not mistakin after 5 good starts it resets itself dont it?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:39 pm
by J-Villa
i've only restarted it once or twice i think
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:58 pm
by dawm
usually its a good 15mins, you can pull the fuel pump relay (same thing as disconnecting the battery, relay powers the pcm)
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:38 am
by Baal
go to the fuse box, theres a fuse wich a yellow "thingy" to pull it out, thats the pcm fuse.
leave it that way for mmm an hour (why take chances?) done
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:16 am
by J-Villa
magically went away and i didn't even do ne thing
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:25 pm
by quicksilvr
Vacuum leak codes just take some time to go away, even after the ECU is reset. I had a very similiar thing happen...my stock bellows tube was leaking. I fixed it, reset the ECU, and it still took it awhile to go away. But it did.