well first of all let me just tell you that you should never replace your EVAP canister purge volume control valve (the one on top of manifold) with one from another year i found this out the hard way. so i was having code 1008 come up and needed to get inspection sticker so i go to my mechanic to replace this and see what he had to say about it. well my car is a 96 and he had a 95 that had just been sitting around so he took the valve from the 95 and put it on my car just to see if that was the problem i mean everything was the same the conections the hoses, only difference was the 95 one was plastic. so the part goes in reset the engine light, i go to drive it and right away i start to smell a weird smell like melted plastic or electrical burn and i pull into the closest parking lot and pop the hood. nothing is out of the ordinary so i close it get back in and now the light is on and then the car just dies. well anyway get it back to mechanic switch the parts back, and hte car starts to idle real high close to 2k rpms, and the ac is on even tho the ac in the car isnt, and the fans are on. he takes the ECU and the thing is fried. who would have known that damn valve could cause so much damage

 

Hmmmmm wow I'm def. not switching out my EVAP canister valve now.

 

heh yea tell me about it idk if it was just a freak thing where my ECU was going and it just decided to do it then, but my ECU showed no signs prior never smelt anything my baby ran like a champ....if you switch yours, id just do it with a new one and not a used one....im at a loss anyone know what could have happened??

 

bump.......

 

the part was probably bad... that sucks man..

 

yea i figure as much, the funny thing is the 95 it came off of had no CEL or anything wrong with it....however i think it may have been a 3.5 gen if thats possible? cuz the manufacture date is april 94, but its listed as a 95 and is a 4th gen body.

 

april 94...wow...i had no idea they went so far back. Well, take the ecu from the 95, they're the same. He owes u one anyway

 

Well I know the 95s and 96s shared a different EVAP system. If the harness and the plug clipped in fine, if the pins matched up and nothing was forced in I don't see how your ECU would go bad. April '94 is the manufacturing date. For e.g. 2007 model car years are out now and it's 2006.

 

ya, he ordered another ecu and hes gonna put it in tomorrow, it was supposed to be in today but oh well.....

now when the ecu goes in, will i have to drive it x amount of miles for it to adjust and reset everything, or will i be able to go for my inspection right away

also is it possible that there was a short somewhere and that caused the ecu to fry, which would also cause this other one to fry as well?

thanks

 

anyone?????

 

You won't have to drive the car for too long before the ECU relearns and sets the parameters. It's possible you may have had a short.