2. Good job on attempting (and successfully!) repairing your own ECM. Electronics are only as complicated as you make them.
3. As long as you don't have cold solder joints it should last. Capacitors only have so many cycles before they need replacing. As long as you install them in the right direction, they are the same farad rating, and the same or more voltage rating this fix should last you a while.
You're ahead of most people when it comes to troubleshooting or you got way lucky on a problem that would have challenged most mechanics. Either way I'm glad you got it handled.
Conejoracer wrote:Okay, two capacitors were leaking on the ECM. After calling around, nobody had one in stock, and they were not cheap. I decided to give it a go at fixing it. First attempt; a trip to Radio Shack, a bit of soldering, and she fired right up! Then a pop and smoke. Sheesh. So I pull the ECM (only partially reinstalled in case of this happening), and a 47Fu resistor I installed had exploded. It turns out I had accidentally bought a polarized resistor, and it was installed backwards. Back to Radio Shack to get a NON polarized Fu47. Soldered it in and success again! I'm a real hack when it comes to electronics, and I worry that my soldering job may not hold, but other than that, fixing the ECM for less than $5 is so much better than spending $162.99 for the cheapest ECM I could find locally.
If anyone has a working F2TF-DA ECM laying around, I'd love to buy it for a spare!
Thanks for all the help, you guys are great.
