Bulletproof515
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- Sep 16, 2016
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Luverne,
Iowa
Hello all. I'm having a problem with my 98 eclipse gs and not really sure what to do now. I've read about every similar post on this forum and still not sure what's going on.
Ok here goes. The car was running just fine,turned on the heater to unfog the windows and my gf noticed sparks from behind the radio area. It was still running so I didn't think much of it. Was getting ready to leave and the car just died. So I tried restarting it and nothing. It cranks but the fuel pump isn't kicking on nor am I getting any spark. I then tried to hook up 2 code readers to it and both failed.
I pulled the radio because I heard a hum coming from behind it, it was the starter relay, pulled the clutch sensor plug and it went away until I tried my brakes,once again got the hum so I disconnected that as well for now. I've checked all the fuses and they are good BUT there is also a short somewhere as I'm getting power to ground. I know it's something to do with the lighting because my tail light,headlight relays were humming as well when I would turn them on so when I checked them with a test light sure enough they're shorting out somewhere.
Anyways I hunted down the connector behind the radio that was causing the short,now I just have to figure out which side of the connector the short is on.
My main question is could a short giving power to ground cause all these problems?
I pulled the ecu to check the caps but it's filled with a gel for protection but from what I could tell none of the caps are bad. This is my only vehicle right now and I need to get it started but don't know where to go from here.
Sorry for the long post,just giving detailed info in hopes that someone can help.
Ok here goes. The car was running just fine,turned on the heater to unfog the windows and my gf noticed sparks from behind the radio area. It was still running so I didn't think much of it. Was getting ready to leave and the car just died. So I tried restarting it and nothing. It cranks but the fuel pump isn't kicking on nor am I getting any spark. I then tried to hook up 2 code readers to it and both failed.
I pulled the radio because I heard a hum coming from behind it, it was the starter relay, pulled the clutch sensor plug and it went away until I tried my brakes,once again got the hum so I disconnected that as well for now. I've checked all the fuses and they are good BUT there is also a short somewhere as I'm getting power to ground. I know it's something to do with the lighting because my tail light,headlight relays were humming as well when I would turn them on so when I checked them with a test light sure enough they're shorting out somewhere.
Anyways I hunted down the connector behind the radio that was causing the short,now I just have to figure out which side of the connector the short is on.
My main question is could a short giving power to ground cause all these problems?
I pulled the ecu to check the caps but it's filled with a gel for protection but from what I could tell none of the caps are bad. This is my only vehicle right now and I need to get it started but don't know where to go from here.
Sorry for the long post,just giving detailed info in hopes that someone can help.
