Dear Steve and WeatherCat automotive tinkerers,
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Not a bad guess but it won't work. California only allows for 7 characters on a plate.
In the meantime, I returned to the saga of tweaking the fuel injection parameters. I had noticed that in spite of great diligence and precision, I wasn't getting the engine to idle more smoothly about 2 to 3 minutes after starting. The logs indicated the fuel mixture was definitely too rich. That's puzzling I thought:
"I am trying to reduce the amount of fuel, that should help shouldn't it?"Something else was very strange. There is a table that makes a quick adjustment immediately after the engine starts. That table also adds fuel. Yet when the two tables were acting at the same time, the engine was actually getting less fuel.
It is at times like this
a that man must search his soul . . . . . before resigning himself to once more reading the instructions. . .
It is at this point I discovered a most inconvenient truth. I was adjusting the
Acceleration Enrichment vs. Coolant Temperature table instead of the
Warm-Up Enrichment vs. Coolant Temperature. The table I was tweaking only comes into play when you step on the accelerator, so not surprisingly the cold starts weren't improving.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! . . . .
So with a clearer idea of what has to be done. I have reduced the values of the
Warm-Up Enrichment vs. Coolant Temperature table based on what the logs and videos suggest is the problem. I also have made what I hope is a reasonable guess for the
After-Start Enrichment vs. Coolant Temperature table. Next chance I get, I'll try to start my trusty wagon and see what happens
In the voice of Sylvester the cat . . . . . .
S-s-s-s-simple, . . . . . isn't it! Edouard