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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 10:56 PM
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I put the intake back on today and I guess there was a vacuum leak cause it was running rough at idle and hissing. So I have to pull the intake again because it didn't seal very well up front. (i let it sit for 24 hours)


while it was idling i tried to connect to the PCM via tunercat RT and i heard clicking and then the car stalled. Now nothing works.. not even the interior lights.

I unhooked the negative terminal a couple minutes ago to let it reset and decided to jump on here real quick. I'll post back if that changed anything.


If it doesn't, did i fry the PCM? I wasn't writing it I was connecting to it.


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Just hooked the battery back up, lights came back on so i went to put the key in and clicked it over to "on" and everythign cut off again.

what the hell is going on?

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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 11:15 PM
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my car did the same thing 1 hour after i bought it. my battery cable had a loose connection to the battery. check everything.
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 11:19 PM
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yep.. check all battery connections....
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 11:33 PM
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mine to before it was the 2 little bolts from under the fender they were lose as hell but were nice and tight up top.
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Old Oct 17, 2008 | 01:17 AM
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i'll check the bolts under the fender tomorrow. I haven't messed with any connections other than the terminals on the battery, which are nice and tight.

does this sound like a bad PCM?
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Old Oct 17, 2008 | 01:25 AM
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also look at your starter wires too!! could be a pcm but i doubt it
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Old Oct 17, 2008 | 02:53 AM
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i guess it was a just PMSing cause the bitch starts now

I can't get tunercats to read the PCM though
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