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Old May 4, 2016 | 12:50 PM
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Need injector help bad!!

Just finished pulling my 21ft. Center console to key west and the truck ran great all the way down. As soon as I made it to the house I got a check engine light and the code was P0279. The truck started to lope. I parked and left it til a few hours later. After a bit I cranked up and it was running fine. The next day I cranked up to launch the boat and it was running fine until I got back to the house and it started to lope again. Just cranked up again and it starts fine but runs for 10 secs and then starts to lope. FICM all good volts, battery all good volts. Any way to know if I have a chaffed wire or bad injector? I live in the panhandle of Florida so a long 10+ hour drive home. I need my truck to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 01:04 PM
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Measure the open coil resistance between pin 1 and 2. Then measure close coil between pins 3 and 4. It should be between .4 to .6 ohms with the engine cold.
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 01:23 PM
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Do you measure on the harness coming from the injector or on the wiring harness going to the injector?
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 01:24 PM
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Your testing the coils, so it's on the injector side.
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 01:26 PM
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If the coils test good would it then be a chafe in the harness? Seems weird it is intermittent.
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Deep South
If the coils test good would it then be a chafe in the harness? Seems weird it is intermittent.
Heat and vibration can make it intermittent. Harness is the other place to check.
Post your results.

Maybe your truck just doesn't like the Keys.
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 01:35 PM
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Will do!! Thank you for the quick response!!
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 03:25 PM
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What will it show if it's bad? Zero?
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 03:43 PM
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Checked the injector ohm's and 1+2 and 3+4 both showing zero. Bad injector?
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Deep South
Checked the injector ohm's and 1+2 and 3+4 both showing zero. Bad injector?
Check on another known good injector to verify your meter is good. Double make sure you're on the correct pins and have good contact.
 
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Old May 4, 2016 | 11:11 PM
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Here is the engine control and sensor harness in this PDF.
You can use the diagram for the injectors to find what pins
go to where.
This PDF is one of the keep in a safe place ones. Comes in handy
when tracing things.

If you need others let me know and I'll see what I can find.

Enjoy.



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Old May 5, 2016 | 06:48 AM
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Literally have same code pop up yesterday. I swapped #5&7 plugs cleared the code and waited till the light came back on. Easy way to check to see if it's the injector or the harness. In my case it's the injector that took a crap.
 
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Old May 5, 2016 | 07:41 AM
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How long did it take for that code to come back up?
 
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Old May 5, 2016 | 07:55 AM
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I think it would pop pretty fast.
 
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Old May 5, 2016 | 08:05 AM
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Swapped the number 5 and 7 and got p0273-cylinder 5 low circuit and p0281-cylinder 7 contribution balance. I'm at a loss. Need help ASAP!!
 
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