RE: RE: RE: Motor won't start after clutch job

From: Ray Block (bpracing@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 06:31:24 EST


If it's not a pinched wire, I'd suggest having the battery charged. He did
say the truck's been sitting for a month. Possibly not enough juice left
to make the PCM happy.

Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net [mailto:owner-dakota-
> truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Brian
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:20 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: RE: RE: Motor won't start after clutch job
>
>
> Crank position sensor would be my guess as well.
>
> brian cropp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Bernd D.
> Ratsch
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:01 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: RE: Motor won't start after clutch job
>
>
> You didn't happen to crimp the cam sensor or crank sensor wire in between
> the bell housing did you? Also, how may sparks are you seeing? 2 or 3
> doesn't count as a good "spark cycle".
>
> - Bernd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brianwhittemore@bellsouth.net [mailto:brianwhittemore@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:47 PM
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: DML: Motor won't start after clutch job
>
>
> I just did a clutch job on my 95 and now haven't got the motor to do more
> than cough a couple of times. Check the ignition & fuel, right? The coil
> seems to be working fine; I get spark indicated with a timing lite on both
> coil and plug
> leads. I hear the fuel pump when I turn on the ignition. I've
poured
> gas
> down
> the throttle body and still get nothing when I crank it. If spark is OK
> why
> won't it do anything with gas poured down its throat? If I hear the pump
> it
> should be getting fuel. I replaced the coil wire shortly before the clutch
> job.
> Truck would not start. After that it seemed fine. Truck has been sitting a
> month or so due to work and holiday trips but now its time to go. What am
> I
> missing?
>
> Brian



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