Re: Check Engine Light Gone Mad!!

From: Tony Sarro (tonyms@acadiacom.net)
Date: Mon Oct 12 1998 - 23:12:12 EDT


Well I took it down to Autozone and they put the tester on it and said that
it was bad. So I called around and got a good price at a local part store.
When I took it in they put it on the tester all by itself and it worked fine
just like new. They said that since the voltage regulator is located within
the PCM I should take it down to the dealer and have them plug it up and do
I diagnostic. I sure hope I dont have to replace it seeing how they dont
make a MP computer for the 91. Thanks Jon and everyone.
Tony Sarro
tonyms@acadiacom.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Check Engine Light Gone Mad!!

>On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Tony Sarro wrote:
>
>> My check engine light has decided to go haywire on me. Today on the way
=
>> home from school it came on so I decided to pull into the gas station =
>> and pull the codes. I did and I got the 12, 41, and 55. I know what =
>> they mean and the only odd one is the 41 so I looked in the Haynes =
>> manual it says lack of or excessive field voltage or something like =
>> that. But this isnt a code that is suppose to make the light come on. =
>> It didnt come back on though when I restarted the truck. About twenty =
>> minutes later it came back on again. So does anybody know what might be
=
>> up with my truck.
>
> Tony,
>
> I don't know if this'll help you out or not, but I ran 41 through the
>trouble codes program on the DML home page, and it came back with
>"An open or shorted condition detected in the generator field control
circuit"
>and said that the generator lamp would be illuminated. Maybe there is
>no generator lamp, so they lit the MIL instead? (shot in the dark) :-)
>Good luck with whatever it is!
>
>
> -Jon-
>
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