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C4 quad driver code failure update, remedy, issues and answers

TammyLS

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1993 40th White
http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com...ad-driver-car-dies-will-not-start-=-help.html

ORIGINAL POST LINK ABOVE.

OK, Car is running like a dream.

Symptoms that carried on forever it seemed.


  • CAR DIED RANDOMLY. FIRST APPEARED TO BE ON HILLS, BUT THEN IT JUST STARTED HAPPENING WHENEVER AND WHEREVER
  • WHEN CAR WAS IDLING, THE NEEDLE DID NOT STAY STEADY
  • A FEW TIMES MY RPMS RAGED WHILE DRIVING CAUSING ME TO THROW IT INTO NEUTRAL, PULL OVER, SHUT OFF AND RESTART MY CAR (AUTOMATIC)
  • CAR SEEMED TO BE DRAGGING BRICKS WHEN STEPPING ON IT
  • PERIODICALLY IT HAD A CUTTING OUT KIND OF THING WHEN LAID INTO THE PEDAL, I'D LET OFF THE GAS AND IT SEEMED FINE. WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE SPARK PLUGS
  • A FEW TIMES WHEN IT DIED I WAS ABLE TO RESTART IT, SO WE INITIALLY THOUGHT IT WAS FUEL RELATED TOO, THERE WERE NO CODES
  • TOWARDS THE END, AND ONLY HAPPENED A COUPLE TIMES, ACTED LIKE IT WAS BOGGING DOWN, FILLING UP WITH FUEL, SPITTING, AND ONCE BACKFIRED
  • A FEW TIMES IT DID NOT WANT TO START, BUT AFTER TRYING TO START IT FOR A WHILE IT WOULD START, SO AGAIN, WE THOUGHT IT WAS FUEL RELATED
  • AT THE END OF ALL THIS, THE QUAD 4 CODE AROSE, FINALLY, THEN THE CAR DIED AND I WAS DONE = IT WENT TO THE DOCTOR
DIAGNOSIS, ANSWER, WHAT WE DID.


  • REPLACED THE FUEL FILTER, THOUGHT IT HELPED BUT THE CAR WAS JUST MESSING WITH ME
  • THEN QUAD 4 CODE LED TO DISTRIBUTOR
  • CHECKED ALL FUSES, A OK
  • REPLACED DISTRIBUTOR, WATER PUMP, PLUGS, WIRES, AND THERMOSTAT
NICE $$$$$$ JOB.

CAR RUNS LIKE A DREAM, BETTER THAN HAS IN SO LONG. SO FAR I CAN TELL THERE IS NO HESITATION, RESPONSIVE AGAIN, AND IS A DREAM, DREAM DREAM.

I LOVE MY CAR AGAIN......

SHE GOT A BATH AND WE DROVE FOR PROBABLY 3 HOURS BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE HER FOR OVER A WEEK. DIDN'T WANT TO COME HOME BUT NEEDED GAS....

I HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT MAY HAVE SIMILAR SYMPTOMS.
 
TammyLS;1064209(snip) [LIST said:
[*]THEN QUAD 4 CODE LED TO DISTRIBUTOR(snip)
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Not quite sure I understand the above, but it sounds like this was a problem with the distributor and not the quad driver. Is that correct?
 

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