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pnklmnd

15+ Year Contributor
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Jul 21, 2004
reno, Nevada
Ok well i guess ill start from the beginning....its not that long

Last november-ish i broke my 1st to 2nd fork, and shattered my second gear. Brought the car home. Try driving it and my gears start working fine allll to smooth but fine. I go to drive it around the block get home, pull into my driveway, stall it. The car turns all the way off. I go to try and restart it, no juice. Normally you get the ECU prompt(the click in the dash), i got none. I turn my hazards on, they work fine. No other electrics did excpet my running lights and my dash lights. So i push my car into my garage yank my tranny, start on another big list of new goodies. Well cars back together, i have a plug on my starter harness(from the battery to the starter) it looks the same as the EGR plug(which i dont have anymore) which i dont know where go's? So i get to testing my wires at my battery there are the 3 that come off into fuses on my + terminal, all 3 wires leading from those fuses are hot. So i go to my Ignition relay(gold box in front of the ECU) i test those wires for power there are 6 wires 3 from the engine side of the harness and 3 going to the ECU. One of those wires is hot going in and with the ignition in the "on" position none of the wires leading to the ecm are hot. So i think i have a bad Starter relay i go to the junkyard and get two of them. Same situation. I go to test the wires again and this time i got the relay to click when i touched a certain wire and my Gauges(boost) lit up and they are wired to my ECU power along with my AFC that lit up too.

So i need some electricians advice. Ive run through pretty much everything. Any and all advice will be greatley appreciated.
 
So now that you redid everything, do you now get the all the lights turning on on the dash or still nothing??? Have you tried rolling the car, putting it in 1st gear and poping out the clutch to see if the car will still drive fine/ run fine???
 
i get dash lights. But i dont get ECU power or a ECu prompt even(click in dash). My gauges and my AFC come on when i touch a ground signal to a certain wire on my ignition relay but even then i get no crank...
 
Does anyone know how to wire it up on switches? i am not opposed to that at all....I just want the SOB to run!
 
like i said before, have you tried rolling the car and popping the cluch to make the motor to run so you can make sure its not a mechanical problem at all or ecu related for that matter?
 
intelligence>me....

Ok so i ripped my dash out going through wiring, and i found two plugs on my column were unplugged....Dont rub it in....
 
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