Jon,
Were the old caps bloated, obviously bad or shorted?
How did the solder joints look?
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue
can you post capacitor specs?
I did earlier
Hm. My GM seem to have:
1x100 25V
1x100 40V
1x47 ?v
1x220 ?v (big one)
See pics, big one is 220, can't read well though
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That's really interesting - mine definitely had 100uf by itself, two 47uf 24v, and then a 220uf
Your model is different - mine was not marked for polarity, either:
Very interesting.
You can see the one nearest camera in my pic is the 100uf, then the two 47uf are identical, then the 220uf:
Last edited by 5mall5nail5; 01-18-2018 at 02:02 PM.
As far as voltages, from what I remember it doesn't really matter, right? I can use all 50v for example and it should work?
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue
Yep stripe and arrow direction always negative
Sorry to change the subject but, love your intercooler set up. Do you mind charging some info of it.
Thanks in advance
Long time no see Jon! My 10/95 540i MSport just had this same issue. I figured it was the fusible link, then stumbled across this thread. Gonna swap in my spare GM then repair the original. Thanks for the info man!
on 1/1995+ E34 General Module sends a signal to EWS2 box, if GM module is missing or dead there will be no starter cranking. I bought 1995 540i for cheap with no crank issue, but also windows, sunroof, central locks, wipers, interior lights, didn't work. So I bought another used GM module and still nothing. Then I checked the power to the module and it had power, but it was dead, then I decided to check the 4 capacitors in one of the GM modules and all 4 were below specifications. Then out of the old TV set I got 4 matching capacitors, soldered them in and it fixed all of the issues. So all this time it was bad GM module do to bad 4 capacitors inside. Even if you buy a used one, most likely it also has bad capacitors.
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