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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by threewaters
You may want to track your ECM ground. My 85 4.9 has a separate ground attached to the negative post. The connector near the post was bad and that caused a battery drain and the ECM went inoperative. But you are not mentioning a battery drain in your thread.
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Old Mar 5, 2005 | 12:48 AM
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Bigted:

How is your rig doing? Please share the details of what you found as I've had the same problems.....

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Old Mar 5, 2005 | 02:36 AM
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i have same problem also but i am going to solve it by switching to the duraspark ignition system soon. Simpler and lots less wires. make sure your fuseable link is good and that it is well grounded and other things mentioned above.
 
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