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

[Jim and Debbie Leyden]

What transmission?
Where are you located?
Possibly someone in the area can help you by swapping CCM's with you for
troubleshooting purposes.  I'm willing to bet that the boneyard CCM is
trashed too.

Jim



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From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Adam J. Green
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:47 PM
To: SHOTimes
Subject: [Shotimes] Help.. my SHO is dead and I don't know why...LONG but
please help.....


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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