I used a Willem family universal chip burner, the GQ-3X from mcumall.com. You also have to purchase the PLCC adapter kit (which is inexpensive) as most of the affordable chip burners are designed to take a DIP footprint natively. The actual software is a free download from the mcumall.com site.
You can re use the chips you pull from the ECU. There is quite a lot in that era automobile that uses PLCC, or at least the PLCC32 footprint; Ford, Chevy, Jeep/JTEC, and they were used in a lot of PC motherboard BIOS so it's always a good habit to field strip old computers... seems like a waste of time for a chip that sells for $4 new, but parts in hand WHEN you need them are worth a whole lot more.
Do yourself a favor and take a picture of the ECU before you remove the chips. It is quite common to go back with a socket, or the chip, and have lost track of it's orientation.
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