Hey. I got the truck working. Thanks to everyone out there who helped.
In the end the answer was the splice. The thing I tried to fix first and
said that it fell apart in my hand and broke two wires. I think I said in
an earlier post "I fixed the 4 wire splice except that mine only had 3."
Well, what happened is that when I cut back the tape to expose the wiring
harness, I stopped when I found three wires together in a splice. I cleaned
them up re-stripped them and soldered them back together. I knew there was
supposed to be 4, but I thought that maybe that went to the ABS since I
didn't think my truck had that. (still not sure about the ABS).
Anyways, today, I was following the very detailed directions given here and
the answer was the computer. I had power on pin 9 but not on pin 3
(red/white). I traced it back to a connector close to the firewall near the
PCM. I unplugged it, still no power on red/white. I traced it back along
the firewall to some other connector about middle of the truck, still no
power on the red/white.
The confusing thing is that I could see a large red/white wire coming off of
the 50 amp fuse in the fusebox going into that harness and there was power
to that wire so why not later on in the harness.
So I finally stipped back some more of the tape and found a smaller diameter
red/white wire that was just hanging there with no copper outside the end of
the wire, and it just looking green on the end.
Then it all clicked. This is the 4th wire in the splice that I was supposed
to have fixed. And it is the one that led to pin 3 on the computer. So,
since my PCM was already unplugged, I soldered away at that wire after
stripping it and added it to the splice.
Taped it up, put the fuse box back in place, attached the PCM harness, and
turned the key. About three times of trying, the engine turned over and
started purring. Boy was I excited.
Okay, in all of my checking I broke fuse # 13 under the dash (10 amp) (tore
right in half when I pulled it out). When the car started and I turned on
the lights, no inside dash lights. I went to the gas station and picked up
a new 10 amp fuse and put it in. Still no inside dash lights. Door lights
work, head lights work, signals work, just can't see the speedometer at
night now. BUT the truck works. Now if I can only get the fuel pump
replaced in my wife's mustang, I would be happier.
Thanks again to everyone,
-Ron M.
'95 CC V6 Sport
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