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I had a persistent error relating to high pressure in my EAS. The error always had a tendency to come on when the wife was in the vehicle but always at an inconvenient time and resulted in a hard fault. I tested the pressure sensor and checked for leaks and nothing was found to be faulty. It was driving me mad!!
I started digging around on google to see what others did. The driver pack failure was a common cause where owners replaced the driver pack and the problem then disappeared.
I looked at mine on the weekend and found that the rubber membrane that seals the driver pack's PCB was damaged from heat. I dug it the membrane out with my hobby knife and found a capacitor underneath. I bought a replacement capacitor and soldered it back in and covered the area in silastic. Time will tell whether this was the issue with mine all along.
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I got sick of driving on bump stops and plugging in my laptop to reset the EAS so I attacked my driver pack.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/543.jpg
Here's the replacement capacitor from Jaycar. 95 cent part:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/544.jpg
Now it's wait and see time.
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Mate
I have a couple of those driver packs which look to be in better shape than yours !
I'm happy to send you one so you can try it out
Steve
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If your 95c fix works, I'll send you heaps of driver units you can de-capacitate for me too ;-)
I rekon you're onto something there mate! Good work.
Cheers
Keithy
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Cheers fellas. I have to give this time, I suppose 1000 to 2000 km, before I'm certain this was the problem. Again the only hard fault that I ever get is the excessive high pressure in the system. If it doesn't pop up again, then I will declare victory over the EAS!!
Of course I'll try to update this thread.
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Good stuff mate !
Sadly though my experience with electronics indicates that if one capacitor is bad then the others will not be far behind :(
Steve
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Well I've just come back from some camping up Dungog way. After some months and plenty of kms, I haven't had any EAS errors come up! So, so far so good!
BTW, the 5.0 under the bonnet loafed up hills with bugger all throttle input. Just love the torque!!
