86 code 41 cylinder select error
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7th Gear
Joined: Jul 2010
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From: Lakeside CA
86 code 41 cylinder select error
Need some help/advice......I'm getting a code 41 cylinder select error and the car barley runs.
History.....car sat for about 8 months dead battery, changed battery and fuel pump took a crap changed it and a week later the pump took another crap....hummmm. Found fuel pump relay was bad and wires were shorting out. Rewired and changed relay and car seemed to run ok but was getting intermittent service engine soon light. When the light was out car ran great as soon as light came on ran like crap.....as days went by the more I ran the car the crappier it would run, the mechanic around the corner pulled the code (41) and said i prolly had a bad ECM we replaced it and no difference, put the old ECM back in and limped it home......car seems to be running very rich and will hardly go at all.
Any suggestion would be great, I'm at a total loss....mech said it could be a bad PROM ???
Thanks for any comments/suggestion.
History.....car sat for about 8 months dead battery, changed battery and fuel pump took a crap changed it and a week later the pump took another crap....hummmm. Found fuel pump relay was bad and wires were shorting out. Rewired and changed relay and car seemed to run ok but was getting intermittent service engine soon light. When the light was out car ran great as soon as light came on ran like crap.....as days went by the more I ran the car the crappier it would run, the mechanic around the corner pulled the code (41) and said i prolly had a bad ECM we replaced it and no difference, put the old ECM back in and limped it home......car seems to be running very rich and will hardly go at all.
Any suggestion would be great, I'm at a total loss....mech said it could be a bad PROM ???
Thanks for any comments/suggestion.
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,853
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From: Westerly RI
You or your mechanic need to run the diagnostic test for code 41, laid out in the FSM. The code only tells you that the sensor is reporting a reading that is out of range. You have to find out why.
