Way to Weird!!!! (Electrical)
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Way to Weird!!!! (Electrical)
Here is one for you...........
97 F150. Came home last night, no problems. Truck ran fine, no indication of any problems. Go out this morning, truck wont start, and relays going crazy! Disconnect the battery for a few minutes, and things seem fine........until I put the key in to try to start it. It would go "click" and the relays would go crazy and again. Pull the battery again, wait a few minutes and things seem normal. Just for fun, put the key in, door open and the chimes come on, (normal). Rotate the key to Accs. position, everything again sounds and appears normal. rotate the key to off, remove it and everything is off. (again normal) Turn the key to on, and the panel lights up, (normal). Rotate to start, hear "click", and the relays go crazy again.
Any ideas on this one????????? BTW it is a bright sunny day, no rain in the past few so I don't suspect a GEM problem. But who knows.
97 F150. Came home last night, no problems. Truck ran fine, no indication of any problems. Go out this morning, truck wont start, and relays going crazy! Disconnect the battery for a few minutes, and things seem fine........until I put the key in to try to start it. It would go "click" and the relays would go crazy and again. Pull the battery again, wait a few minutes and things seem normal. Just for fun, put the key in, door open and the chimes come on, (normal). Rotate the key to Accs. position, everything again sounds and appears normal. rotate the key to off, remove it and everything is off. (again normal) Turn the key to on, and the panel lights up, (normal). Rotate to start, hear "click", and the relays go crazy again.
Any ideas on this one????????? BTW it is a bright sunny day, no rain in the past few so I don't suspect a GEM problem. But who knows.
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Nope. Not the battery. Have 14.5 at the posts. Have also put the battery in another vehicle, Getting full volts and amps.
Here is another piece of info....... The entire electrical now appears dead. Has chacked all the fuses and relays. If I disconnect the battery for 5 to 10 min. then hook it back up, as long as I do not put the key in the ignition switch the dome lights come on with the door open. As soon as the key is put in the relays start clicking and the dome light goes off, then abolutly nothing.
Here is another piece of info....... The entire electrical now appears dead. Has chacked all the fuses and relays. If I disconnect the battery for 5 to 10 min. then hook it back up, as long as I do not put the key in the ignition switch the dome lights come on with the door open. As soon as the key is put in the relays start clicking and the dome light goes off, then abolutly nothing.
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I just bought a '74 f150. the guy told me the engine was toast, but I got it home (on the trailer) and had it running before I took it off the trailer! the negative battery terminal was (U guessed it) corroded inside! ! replaced cable and viola! running truck!
now to replace the tranny.........(big sigh) guess it wasn't the perfect truck! lol
now to replace the tranny.........(big sigh) guess it wasn't the perfect truck! lol
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i got a question for ya, my pickup's check engine light came on tonight on way to friends, got there pulled of neg battery cable and let it sit. Put it back on start back up and let run for 10-15 mins and everything is fine no light...fluid's are all good nothing wrong from that angle....so why would it come on, then fix when i reset it? is this common?
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Originally Posted by Perfection
i got a question for ya, my pickup's check engine light came on tonight on way to friends, got there pulled of neg battery cable and let it sit. Put it back on start back up and let run for 10-15 mins and everything is fine no light...fluid's are all good nothing wrong from that angle....so why would it come on, then fix when i reset it? is this common?
Drive it for two "driving cycles". If the fault that caused the orignal CEL is still there, it will come on by this time.
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was driving today and about 35 miles into driving it came on again, but strangely 2-3 miles later it went off, and back on about another mile later, then flickered for a few seconds, and now its on again. its a yellow, which ford friend says is not a big deal, he thinks it may just be a sensor trying to go bad on me?