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Owl wrote: Yep Neil, I hear your pain, My Jimny gave me a familiar fault once more, driving down the freeway sitting on 85 to 90kms per hour, engine decides to shut off, and come back on , back and forth in that manner for about 10 to 15 secs, and then I stopped at the traffic lights and it idles nicely and drives off as if nothing is wrong. No check engine light but the engine management hiccups to the extreme ?? Has to be the ECU epilepsy.
There is other very subtle intermittent symptoms, very faint misfire, run-on feel (its not the IAC sensor), engine lacking power, high fuel consumption, and at the severe end it engine shuts down and then comes back. Always starts ok. And it runs really smooth at times.
You described mine to a tee I'm about to go over previous things I've done to see if I mist something ,with the plugs on the ECU you are doing the right thing they are tight
Found a folt on a part that i just replaced the idol air control valve that i replaced came with a new seal i was thorough cleaning old parts before reassembly I noticed coolant level going down a little with no external signs decided have a look at the IAC if you look at one of the air ports you will see a black mark that was shiny when i put it back together looks like every time it idoled coolant was getting sucked into engine i cut a gasket left original seal in and reassembled has other people had same problem?is it a common falt?
I've just got to test car after fitting gasket on idol air control valve it runs noticeably better sorry if I'm re inventing the wheel wether someone has done this before but i recommend before replacing idol air control valve cheque to see if there is a air/coolant leak i put in a new seal and that leaked i cleaned all surfaces