Robert, The two pins your talking about are just support pins. Why they arn't on the board I don't know but that all they are. As far as the oxidation, I see a lot of that due to climate. Clean it off with a little lighter fluid ( Naptha ) and a tooth brush. John --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Robert Rooney" <DMCVegas@xxxx> wrote: > I posted into the vault the 2 photos of my Idle Speed ECU. On the one > chip on the bottom you can see that 2 of the pins on the IC are not > soldered into place. Is this supposed to be this way? Even on some of > the empty connections on the board they took the time to apply > solder, so I have no idea as to why they would leave 2 pins "naked". > Is this normal? > > -Robert > vin 6585 (The DeLorean from hell.)