Well I checked for wiring harness issues but didn't find any. Granted I
didn't check the entire harness but checked the areas you mentioned and all
looked good. I'd hate to keep removing tape to find a short or corrosion
but I may have to.
Thanks,
James
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of WiLieR[SS]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:19 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Re: RE: Re: Dakota Won't Start
My 96 gave me fits too and it turned out to be a minor wiring harness issue.
Not the one that affects the 92-95 model (OBD-II required a minor
modification to the wiring harness and they did away with the splice). On
mine I got lucky when I found the wiring harness problem.
Trace the wires from the crank sensor back to where they plug into the
wiring harness. On the harness side of the plug I was missing about an inch
of insulation on the three wires at the plug. No idea how the insulation
went missing, but it did and I simply heat shrinked the wires after pulling
them from the plug and put them back. Solved my problem instantly.
Another thing to check, which I had to repair as well, was all the splices
on the driver's side of the engine. There are three or four in the wiring
harness on top of the head that link the tps, cps, pickup coil and map
sensor to each other. Two or three are really easy to get to and lay in the
wiring bundle on top of the head, the last one is down the harness a little
ways behind the block. It was hard to get to but not so hard that I would
call it a pain. I redid the solder at all of them and forgot to reset my
computer (they all looked like crap too). As soon as I cranked the engine
it threw codes that said voltage higher than normal on the tps, crank
position sensor, map sensor and pickup coil. I reset the pcm and it purred
like a kitten when I was done.
I can dig back through my fsm if needed to tell you the specific splices if
you want me to. I think I left them highlighted just for that reason.
WiLieR
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