smokingkills

iTrader: (3)

I thought I would share this tale...

My Maf failed before MoT last week so I sourced a new one via fleabay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWNX:IT job done, or so I thought. The engine idled ok but was hesitant and bogged down under part throttle even after ECU reset it it gave error code 23- MAF. A lesson learnt trying to do it on the cheap Fortunately the seller seems reasonable & he will refund on return.

Now a new oem one of these is close to £400 and second hand ones, with life expectancy unknown around for £100 it got me thinking..... well googleling.... THEN I came across this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ap7MSk5lo you can imaging my movie excitement

Anyway, the next day I decided to take the top of the old oem MAF:


Low and behold there was a dry solder joint exactly like in the youtube vid. Next I popped around a mate's place who is a wiz with a soldering iron, he reflowed all the solder joints we could get to & covered the circuit board in hot glue to isolate from the shield.

Popped it back in the car & it has never run so smoothy, touch wood.... Now done about 100 miles without missing a beat & no error codes

So if yours has failed it would be well worth trying to do a simple solder joint reflow..

djquest

iTrader: (8)

top info. should help anyone out with MAF issues on a classic.

jogie

Spot on information, just saved me some money !!! Opened up the maf, and found the same problem :-)

jonny_693

iTrader: (5)

Good call. I took the top off mine once as I thought it was suspect but it was ok. Turned out it was the loom connection. Use black silicon to seal it up again for the oem look.

smokingkills

iTrader: (3)

Happy days, glad this helped someone else out

lox

Saved myself 300 boof and done it myself. Awsome info find!!!