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Re: 88 Ramcharger won't start! [Re: Golden-Arm] #1322454
10/19/12 08:30 PM
10/19/12 08:30 PM
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Brookeville, Md
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It has gas about 1/2 tank, the butterflies are wet and you can smell gas. I have no voltage at the + side of the coil and the check engine light did not come on and "flash" I checked the wires and they all seem to be ok. It was running good when I parked it the day before. It has always started on the 1st try. I pulled the coil wire and laid it next to a clean piece of metal and cranked it over...nothing.

Re: 88 Ramcharger won't start! [Re: Mr.Yuck] #1322455
10/19/12 10:27 PM
10/19/12 10:27 PM
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ST clair shores MI
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you will only have power at the coil when the asd relay is on.turn key on, you have about 2 seconds before it turns off.then when cranking,fire up, asd relay will come back on. You will not have power with just key on for any length of time.
Key turned on,check engine light is not lit? then you have a bad ecm,ground, or power wire going to it. The corroded wire is taped in the main harness bundle somewhere along the driver inner fender.between the battery and firewall.it's either a blue or a green wire.You need to check if you have power at fuel pump relay and asd relay.it usually affects those. You will NOT see the bad wire without unbundling/untapeing the main harness. you need to check power first if no engine light comes on.I use a test light to check for spark.clip to ground then crank with end of test light about 1/4 inch from end of coil.spark should jump to end of test light.The test light will not light up.the spark will just jump.as long as spark has a ground path to follow through the test light,0 chance of getting zapped you'r self. That Eliminates a bad coil wire.

Re: 88 Ramcharger won't start! [Re: moretoys] #1322456
10/20/12 03:51 PM
10/20/12 03:51 PM
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Brookeville, Md
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ok cleaned all the terminals, replaced battery terminals (yeah I know not an issue but they needed it) and now that relay is even crazier. I'm wondering if it's that instead of the H/E. I also checked for loose or bare wires and could not find any. Would a bad H/E cause that relay to bug out?

Re: 88 Ramcharger won't start! [Re: Mr.Yuck] #1322457
10/20/12 04:15 PM
10/20/12 04:15 PM
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Brookeville, Md
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I took the ac relay out and the ASD realy is making a bunch of noise... ugggg what the fudge

Re: 88 Ramcharger won't start! [Re: Mr.Yuck] #1322458
10/20/12 06:07 PM
10/20/12 06:07 PM
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and the winner is....... H/E sensor. new one in runs fine, well I'll have to hit it w/ a timing light but it started right up. Thanks guys.

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