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Anonymous Posted on Jul 05, 2012

My 1994 olds cutless cira wont start after new battery has been running just quit no fire getting to starter

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  • Posted on Jul 05, 2012
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Could be a bad connection at the battery, faulty neutral safety switch, or faulty ignition switch.

  • Marvin
    Marvin Jul 05, 2012

    PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW THE TESTING IS DONE TO THESE VARIOUS PARTS YOU HAVE MENTIONED. THANKS

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  • Posted on Feb 21, 2009

SOURCE: 1994 dodge dakota truck won't start

[email protected] fuel pump is located in the gas tank pop the hood to right of carb or left side look for a black cap that looks like a tire cap it will be on a metal pipe fuel pipe take it of have somebody try to start truck then push the little valve if gas comes out the pump is working if not fuel pump coil i think is mounted left side of motor as you look at it pull coil plug then take some rubber coated needle nose pliers hold near the coil look for blue ark remember this do not hold coil wire with bare hands or bare pliers it will shock you real good my buddy had just a bad coil wire so he got a whole wire set frm autozone they also have a web site autozone,com that will have trouble shooting for your truck let me no what happens

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 12, 2009

SOURCE: wont start

Sounds the starter is no good (sometimes they'll work intermittently for a while before they totally **** out). Of course it could just be a starter wiring problem (sending wire).

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  • Posted on Sep 03, 2009

SOURCE: 1994 Ford F150 wont start, changed

1 Inspect Ignition Switch Improperly Connected or Faulty Ignition Switch. 2 Inspect Battery Battery Discharged or Faulty. 3 Inspect Battery Cable Coroded, Broken, Shorted or Poorly Connected Battery Cable. 4 Inspect Solenoid Switch Starter Solenoid Switch Faulty. 5 Inspect Starter Starter Motor Faulty. 6 Inspect Wireset Worn or Damaged Spark Plug Wires. 7 Inspect Coil -Ignition- Faulty Ignition Coil. 8 Inspect Distributor Cap Loose, Cracked or Worn Distributor Cap. 9 Inspect Spark Plug Incorrectly Gapped or Fouled Spark Plug(s). 10 Inspect Distributor Cap and Rotor Kit Loose, Cracked or Worn Distributor Cap. 11 Inspect Fuel Tank Fuel Tank Empty. 12 Inspect Carburetor Worn, Faulty or Damaged Carburetor. 13 Inspect Fuel Pump Faulty Fuel Pump.

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  • Posted on Sep 29, 2009

SOURCE: can not start car security light flash fuse ok

had same problem in 99 aurora. fixed it here

http://mattwindsurfs.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/gm-pass-key-ill-pass/

from the above site:

It worked well for me for about ten years, but I finally got fed up with not being able to start my own car with my own key. I don’t like to get screwed on car repairs, so here’s what happened. I used Google for a while and found some websites with more information than I really needed, and I read it all. If you are having the same problem, you have probably figured out what is going on. You turn the key. The car doesn’t start, but the ‘SECURITY’ indicator blinks. You give up, and it stays lit. You know that the little resistor in the key is not making good contact. You can go Google for those other sites as well, but you really don’t need all the information they give. I had been putting off the job because I thought I was going to have to crack open my steering column. This was not the case. Here’s how it worked on my 97 Camaro:

  1. Go to the electronics store and pick up a cheap multimeter. Open the box in the store and try to read your key with it. Quickly discover that this one is a total piece and you shouldn’t have wasted your money on it. Good thing you didn’t. Close the box and spend $50 on a real nice overkill version with auto-ranging. It’s still less than the $500 model.
  2. Leave the store and measure the resistance of the key in the peace and quiet of the hurting car. In my case it’s 886 Ohms. I’m no expert, but I bet GM picked values that don’t match up with widely available resistors.
  3. Well the store has 820. Will it work? I didn’t have the table I found online with the ranges about each of the 15 possible values in pass key. That’s OK. 1/(1/8200+1/1000) = 891. This is the resistance of an 8.2 kOhm and a 1 kOhm resistor in parallel. Don’t make this as hard as I did. Bring a calculator, or at least a pen. Buy the resistors and a 40W soldering iron.
  4. Here’s the action: twist the leads on the resistors together and solder them. Get down under the steering while and take all the screws out of the trim. Pull pretty hard on the trim to get it off.
  5. Literally the first thing you see is an orange wire coming out of the bottom of the steering column, housing two white wires. It’s plugged into another pair. One is black and white, and the other is purple and white. That pair is the car side. Cut it. Strip the ends and jury-rig twist the strands around the ends of the resistor.
  6. Try to start the car. It works. Try to start it again. It works again. Sweet. If it doesn’t work for you, go back to math and maybe buy more resistors. Better to get it close the first time.
  7. Solder each end of the newly-parallel resistors to one of those wires. Let the orange wire hang. Ensure a good solder job so there won’t be problems in the future. Wrap the whole thing in electrical tape and put the trim back on.
  8. Start the car again it works. Try again. It works again.
This is much better than having to try 6 times, waiting 4 minutes between each attempt, when I’m already late for work. I am thrilled to know that when I go to start my car tomorrow morning it will not be a 50/50 chance.



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