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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 03:02 PM
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Only 1 bank of injectors firing

I have a heavily modified 1991 350 TPI and it was running great on Saturday. Monday I popped the memcal out to adjust the startup enrichment and when I put it back in and started the car it ran and drove like crap. Barely started, had to keep on the gas.

What I thought was mechanical turned out to be none of the passenger side injectors firing. The car runs but very poorly. I ran it for 5 minutes and all 4 of the passenger side header tubes were cold. Driver side was hot.

I have re-wrote the PROM with known good working tunes onto 3 different chips with no change. I have swapped ECMs with no change.

I don't have a noid light but rigged a small bulb across the injector connector and when cranking and running the bulb doesn't light up.

Both injector 10amp fuses are good. Power to the pink/black wire at the injector.

Is it the ECM or PROM that controls injector firing? I don't have a separate complete Memcal to try right now.

Any ideas??
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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 06:06 PM
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Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing

Probing the injector wire right from the harness at the ECM shows no grounding signal when cranking or running. How can only 1 bank be not working?
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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 04:48 PM
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Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing

Originally Posted by 89fast5oh
Probing the injector wire right from the harness at the ECM shows no grounding signal when cranking or running. How can only 1 bank be not working?
the ECM has 2 injector drivers. maybe one of them died? try another ECM and see what happens.
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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 05:13 PM
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Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing

Check the inj fuses.
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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 09:00 PM
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Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing

Found the problem. Taking the ECM out of the dash repeatadly to program the PROM caused the pink/blk injector wire to break inside the coating. Soldered it up and it works like new again.
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