Postby anthonyanthony » January 4th, 2009, 2:26 pm
Years ago I had a similar problem with my local ck4. The heater picked up a leak and coolant got into the TCU resulting in similar problems like boostman.
After the wreacker bring the car home I called diamond motors and told them what happened.
They said that the heater, TCU, wiring harness and some other parts fromtransmission which I cannot remenber must be replaced.
The quote for this was approx $30,000. That was in 2001.
In the evening time when my head was cool me and my parthner pull out the TCU , open it up , wash it out with battery water, WD40 and dry with compressed air. Harness was sprayed out with WD40. Coolant hose was diaconnected from heater and connected together i.e heater was condemed from flow circuit.
Afterwards ,TCU mounted up and installed , harness plugged in and battery reconnected. We went temple and mosque afterwards. Next day vehicle started , driven round the block and highway afterwards.
Vehicle was sold in 2005, and the last time I talked to the person I sold it to (a fella from central who does work in POS ) he said vehicle doing over 200,000 miles (not km) and up till now no problems with transmission or TCU.
He did shut down once due to a clogged fuel filter last year 2008
Moral of story :
Diamond Motors price : $ 30,000
My price : $200.00 wreacker fee
: $ 30.00 WD40
: $ 80.00 mechanic
$160.00 Imam & pundit fee
TOTAL : $ 470.00
