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Old Feb 2, 2014 | 04:29 PM
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high tension wire?
on my 89 f-150 4x4 with a 300 engine an inexpensive scanner suggested that the high tension wire is the reason why my pick up will not start with a key. it starts just fine with a push button, but i would like to go back just use a key to start it someday
 
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Sounds like either the switch is out of adjustment or the neutral safety switch is bad or out of adjustment also. "High tension wire?" New to me!
 
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List the code by number and when it was displayed.
 
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High tension wire? Lol. They mean the secondary side of the ignition system... everything after the coil.
 
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By the way "tension" is British the word for voltage just like accumulator is the British word for battery.
So "High tension wire" = High Voltage Wire.
 
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By the way "tension" is British the word for voltage just like accumulator is the British word for battery.
So "High tension wire" = High Voltage Wire.
Really? That's interesting. I worked with a British guy that called them a battery, but when one was dead he would say "the battery's flat". I thought it was a great description.
 
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Really? That's interesting. I worked with a British guy that called them a battery, but when one was dead he would say "the battery's flat". I thought it was a great description.
You might want to look at this link:
accumulator - definition of accumulator by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

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And you look here:

http://www.smartdriving.co.uk/Drivin...at_battery.htm

Notice it's a UK site...
 
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