Re: Re: RE: More Dak problems

From: Scott Lane (rsb7424@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 13 2010 - 20:36:52 EST


Thanks Biff, I hope you figure that out. My truck is also a 98 CC
SLT, 2wd, but has the 5.2 V8.

Rascal

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Biff Byrum <bbyrum9@foothill.net> wrote:
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> Mike, when I read this I was just thinking of what Rascal had said, so I just went out to check that off-ground on the neg cable. both eyelets coming to that bolt seem to be very tight.
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> My truck is a '98 SLT CC, 2wd with the 3.9. All seemimgly just as built.
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> A few months ago I did go back over to the battery dealer and they did check it out completely. It's a big group 34 that I bought back in July. Everything was perfect and the retightened the terminals.
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> Right now it just showed 13.28 cold and it is now charging at 13.95. ( Its about 65F right now)
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> No communication is a good symptom of the PCM going south, but can I make the argument that this truck has gone through this three other times in the last year and the PCM has survived?
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> If fact the last time was last week and after the mechanic put the last one on and 2 new tires, he forgot to clear the codes. I went out later that night and about the fifth time I turned the key on I just happened to look and the check engine light was off!!!
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> Here is a link to something I found in a search
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> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090922115718AAuqXxd
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> Oh well, I had just come back from checking the local CarQuest store, the have both Denso and NTK available for about the same prices as the Boschs.
> screw the Kragen and the Auto Zone right across the street. It looks like what I took out last year was the original NTK sensor, now CQ says their computer shows that the Denso was original
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> Now if I can figure out that ground wire, maybe my problems will go away. As best as I can see, one of those two connected wires goes down somewhere in the area of the distributor.
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> Hey Rascal, it was great to hear from you, we have all been thinking of you. I hope you get cleared to drive next week..   Biff Byrum....
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com>
> To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:54 PM
> Subject: Re: DML: Re: RE: More Dak problems
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>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Biff Byrum wrote:
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>>> When I start it up the volt meter sits way to the left and then  starts moving up slowly, maybe taking 12 seconds to show full  charging voltage. The other day when I put in a replacement IAC  motor I did a little moving around of that two wire flat plastic  encased ground strap that bolts to the wiper motor.
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>>> When I got done I noticed that the needle moved up faster, taking  only about 6 seconds to get up to voltage. But that still doesn't  seem to be proper.
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>> This really sounds like a charging system issue.  Bad alt, bad  regulator, bad battery, or bad battery/ground connection.
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>> If you have some of those issues that could lead to dying (disconnect voltage from the PCM and it'll die right away as if you shut off the key...)
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>> Your other symptoms - especially
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>>> this time it no longer wants to talk to any scanners.
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>> is making me think bad PCM.  I would suppose the perfect short could cause that as well but all of this could be explained by them PCM  going south.
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>> What are your truck's specs? I have one here that I think is from a  '96 Ram 360 manual trans.  Not sure if that would help you out.
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>> Mike
>> really getting the itch to start cutting on the increasingly wrinkled  40" shod monster Dak
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