Electrical starting system shutdown-could be nuclear meltdown

[tomtom72]

Hi Dave, Okay & understand: battery appears to be 100%. Did you run thru the diagnostics for the starter circuit? I'm talking about the "No Start" wirte ups we have over at the NetRegistry site in the Maintenance section? There could be some very useful stuff there. The clutch safety switch & starter relay come to mind and then the connection at the starter solenoid and finally the copper contact disk inside the starter solenoid.

Okay, my understanding of the VATS function is that the resistance of our pellet completes a circuit. Having the correct pellet matching the ohms programed into your CCM then completes a circuit that energizes the fuel pump enable relay. That's all our VATS system does, it's a fancy fuel shut off. Again, that is my squash's understanding of a C4 VATS system....in it's simplest form. Do you have a scanner? Or maybe Gordon's jumper kit? I was thinking to hook up the battery and do a KOEO test of the CCM.

Oh, on the starter. There is a write by Marc Haibeck about how you can give the starter a wack while trying to crank & if it responds then you've narrowed the issue....maybe. You can just snake a long 3/8" extension down thru two of the plenum runners and get it against the starter so you can wack it. I just never had to do it so I'm thin on details. Also, there is a way to do a KOEO simple test on the clutch safety switch, over at Haibeck's also. I think with the key in the "Start" position you work the clutch and watch the volt gauge, if it moves it's good. Scott knows better than I on this subject.

On the CCM R&R....shift knob 1st, then console 2nd, A/C register 3rd, actual center bezel: four 10mm screws I think plus two lower edge locating pins(?) and then those clips left & right. Everything in the center stack comes out: the same 10mm or 7mm screws are obvious except for the radio head unit. There are some at the right edge that I had to pry the dashpad to the right to get on them. I used painter's tape on the dashpad so the mounting ears for the radio didn't scratch it on the way out...yea mine was that tight anyway. Now I'm out of steps because I never have been any deeper into the back of the dash. Sorry. I will look up this in my FSM set and report back. Or I can give you my digits or as you're in CT I could make a field trip. Or, if you don't have a FSM set I can ship you mine. Your choice man, I'm just trying to help a Brother out.


Tom
P.S. I'm just some back yard hack....no ASE Tech here, so my knowledge base is a bit shallow.