can a opti go bad just from sitting?
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can a opti go bad just from sitting?
has anyone herd of a optispark going bad from just sitting for a few mos? my car went into the shop few mos back get the motor rebuilt, went to fire it up today for the first time and there getting no sprak and say they've checked everything and it has to be the opti?? it was put on the car not to long before it went in to get rebuilt, maybe 3k miles old and seemed to work fine when it went in, now from sitting in a box the last few mos they say it must of went bad, and that is kinda normal for a opti to die from not being used for over 2-3weeks, possible?
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Mine sat for two years not being used and was fine when I got everything back together. As a matter of fact, that same opti has been sitting for the past year as well. I might get to fire it up this weekend and see if it is still good.
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Mine did. Put it up for the winter, come spring time bad opti. I got a code 36 hi pulse res... something. My car only had about 33k miles on it at the time and that opti only had about 15k miles. I opened the opti up after i took it off somehow there was a lot of corosion in it. I switched over the the 95 vented style opti after that.
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has anyone herd of a optispark going bad from just sitting for a few mos? my car went into the shop few mos back get the motor rebuilt, went to fire it up today for the first time and there getting no sprak and say they've checked everything and it has to be the opti?? it was put on the car not to long before it went in to get rebuilt, maybe 3k miles old and seemed to work fine when it went in, now from sitting in a box the last few mos they say it must of went bad, and that is kinda normal for a opti to die from not being used for over 2-3weeks, possible?
So "they" built your motor, maybe "they" didn't time the Opti correctly, maybe "they" broke a wire in the harness to the Opti, or maybe "they" don't really know what the real problem is so "they" BTO.
Sorry, I'll go take my meds now.
Coughed alittle on start up, but that was it...
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well mine was converted to the vented opti when we did the double roller timing chain and has obviously still went bad :-( the guy who is building my car said its happened to his personal car a few times in the past when he would let it sit for a few mos at a time, i dunno.....
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well mine was converted to the vented opti when we did the double roller timing chain and has obviously still went bad :-( the guy who is building my car said its happened to his personal car a few times in the past when he would let it sit for a few mos at a time, i dunno.....