RE:92 5.2L Dak dead Help please!

From: victor.williams@byers.com
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 17:24:41 EDT


Not sure about the '92 electrics but I'd check all of the fuses and the
relays in that black box under the hood..
I've had a big fuse go out without any good reason that we could find.

Victor Williams
'95 Dak CC Sport, 5.2L , 5sp

>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:18:49 -0500
>From: John_Neff@Dell.com
>Subject: DML: 92 5.2L Dak dead Help please!
>
>All,
>My father-in-laws '92 Dak is dead. Symptoms are, ran great, shut it down,
>upon restart it fired and ran for about 2 seconds, then died. Will crank
>normally, but nothing more. Brother-in-law suspects ignition module in the
>distributor died since he "says" there is no spark and no smell of gas in
>the tail pipe telling him the injectors are not firing. I don't think he
>really did his troubleshooting properly and I'm not confident in his
>decision about what part has failed since he doesn't believe me that there
>are no knock sensors on Magnum engines (but that's a completely different
>story). Bottom line, he doesn't know as much about these trucks as he'd
like
>to think he does.
>
>I'm going to stick my head under the hood later tonight to check for spark
>and pressure in the fuel rail. Anyone have any insight as to the most
common
>parts to fail on this vintage truck? I'm guessing either fuel pump or
crank
>trigger but appreciate anyone else's ideas before I get my hands dirty.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>98 Dak 4X4 CC Sport, 5.2L, auto, etc....



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