Car has been running great for several months.

I switched to castrol syntec about 200 miles ago. I'm sure has nothing to do with anything but thought I would mention.

Today when I went golfing I noticed the car idled rough. At stop lights, idle about 700 RPM and kinda shake. Usually Idles around 900 to 1000 RPM.

Turned off the main road the the car really started to sound rough. Missing? Kinda like out of fuel ( 3/4 left and filled 3 days ago) Than it died.

Tried to restart, car turns over but almost acts like it is severely out of time.
I had the car towed home.

I have an older AutoXray EZ2000 in the garage.
It gives me a code of P1100.
Their website http://www.autoxray.com/code_lookup.php
Code Definition: P1100 No definition available
That is just great. The reader knows I have a problem, just has no clue as to what.

Anyone have any ideas or what I should check?
1998 SL

Best Regards
Allen

After searching a few hundred sites I found this

http://www.iequus.com/support/obd2_definitions.php

P1100 Mitsubishi Induction Control Motor Position Sensor Fault

Now to figure out what that is, sounds alot like the crank position sensor but...
Have to do some more searching

woah my TT GTO idles at 500 nice and steady :|

crazy

Not sure what the correct idle speed is suppose to be.

Still trying to find out for sure what the Mitsubishi Induction Control Motor Position Sensor is. Is it the crankshaft position sensor?

Hope to save someone else some serious trouble down the road.

About a month or so ago (1200 miles ago) I changed the timing belt, all pulleys, water pump, etc.

Getting the dust cover back on was a bear. Had a very hard time with the lower cover wanting to drop the dust seal. The back seal was the worse. Well, in the mean time the seal around the motor mount bracket must have slipped.

last weekend the motor started to idle rough, bad gas I figured being I just filled. About 20 miles later the car sputtered and died at a stop light.

Long story short, a part of the gasket went around the crankshaft pulley and jumped the timing. I'm guessing I'm lucky it happened at a stop lights instead of highway speed.

It was about 50 or 60 Degrees out. Dam lucky not to wipe out the motor.
I'm guessing it was so far out of time that it thought the crank sensor was bad.

Put everything back in time, turned the key, purred like a kitten.

Moral of the story. When changing dust seal gasket, permatex them suckers in there and worry about getting them out of the grooves 60,000 miles later when you do the belt again.
(IMG:http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh29/TheLightsAreOnBut/gasket_ripped.jpg)