[Shotimes] Help.. my SHO is dead and I don't know why...LONG but please help.....

[Adam J. Green]

Hello everyone... I gots a problem....  I took the intake manifold off my 94
to change plugs and wires, and ended up having to replace the valve cover
seals due to oil in the plug wells... and the oil didn't get sucked out and
went down in the cylindars... (I know.... it was a mistake, and you all said
it should be fine, just suck it out of there somehow which I did). Anway... we
put the intake manifold back on... it didn't go real smooth, and the brace in
the back that contains the ground strap gave us trouble and we had to keep
moving around all those wires back there, but we never unpluged them and we
made sure nothing was "amiss", being disconnected, strained, sressed and what
not... everything looked good and in order. All connections were properly
connected within the intake manifold. We hooked up the battery and turned the
key.... nothing... just barely a crank.... dunno why.. i guess it was just the
oil in the plug wells... (what was left of it anyway).  Then the car cranked
and the crank sounded awful.... i'd compare it to how an electric start
lawnmower cranks when you try to sart it... a real "sressed" whining
crank...but then the car fired up and all kinds of smoke from the cylindars
were coming out of the exhaust... it ran for about 45 seconds and died...

We began the investigation..... there was spark and of course air, but no
fuel, there was no pressure in the fuel rail. When you turn the key, you could
not hear the fuel pump prime.... by reading the forums, it was said to check
the CCM under the fan shroud... it faild the test .... no voltage on
pink/black on key on, and no "partial voltage" from pin 10 the yellow one. So
to confirm the CCM was the problem, we hooked up the fuel pump straight, by
disconnecting the intertia swtich and jumpering the fuel pump side of the
harness and touching it to the battery. The car started and ran fine..... so
we took the CCM out and cracked it open and it stunk like burnt electronics...
so we found a used CCM from a yard... i received it and the replacement looked
worse appearance wise then the one in my car... I didn't have a good feeling
when I saw it, but i figured it'd do the trick..

So we put it in, re connected the battery, which was a little drained .... and
turned the key to hear the fuel pump.... nope... the replacement CCM made a
buzzing sound..... so we let the battery charge up a little more, and we
turned the key and the Fuel pump came on just fine and the car started.....

So it's running.... and we disconnect the battery charger.... the car
dies.......  so we hook the charger back up and the car starts but has trouble
idling .... like it's being "starved" for fuel... check engine light flashed 2
times but didn't stay on..... i took my foot off the gas, and it died......
turned the key again..... and no fuel pump....   but the pump works if you
hook it up straight through like I mentioned above...   so givng up hope, i
called AAA and waited for the truck and the car is now at the dealership...
and i'm petrified and feel mentally sick and unconfident that either I messed
somethign up with the car and it will never run right agaiin....

Any thoughts would be gratiously accepted....

And for the record, my tune up i performed consisted of... new motorcraft
plugs and wires, new intake manifold gaskets, new valve cover seals and
plugwell seals, new IAB and 2 new 02 sensors.....

         -Adam

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