Datonaku
CEG'er
I will try to make this as detailed as I can, with my thought processes, what I've done and haven't done and what not, i'm sure its gonna be something stupid im overlooking.
Too start things off I bought a 00' svt contour with a bad trans, never heard the car run either, start scouring a transmission for the known issue, came accross the perfect parts cougar, that had a 3L swap and trans with 40k miles that I got to drive home(after dropping clutch to start) for 300 dollars, To make things as easy as I could I swapped the 3L and trans together into the contour, came out the cougar and went right into the contour, all went well, with the normal knuckle busting.
with the key in and on I have a flashing oil light and thats it, No headlights, brake lights etc., backlights behind dash gauges, i havent tested much inside due to also having stating issues. a missing ground possiably?
The current grounds i know of that i checked, that I wouldve touched while swappng the motor and those are
-Hood to body
-small ecu to body in that same area
-coilpack ground
-trans bolt to battery (one car had a ground from here to body aswell the other didnt)
-black and yellow wire coming out bottom of fuse box grounded to battery
Any others im missing? this is only my 2nd time swapping these motors, so i know i dont know everything
On to the other starting issues
First with the old motor in having starting issues what i found out was jumpping pins 3 and 5 (ithink was months ago) the starter would turn the motor but no start. a dead battery ended troubleshooting that day, and was left with that. I have swapped motor and trans completely with a different starter so its not the same one that was on it.
It's possible that the starter on the new motor is bad and I will be testing pins 3 and 5 again to see if the starter does anything if not ill swap them out and go from there. I havent started that yet knowing there are other eletrical issues aswell not knowing if anything would be related.
All help is greatly wanted, I will try to provide whatever info yall need on request for anything ive missed.
Too start things off I bought a 00' svt contour with a bad trans, never heard the car run either, start scouring a transmission for the known issue, came accross the perfect parts cougar, that had a 3L swap and trans with 40k miles that I got to drive home(after dropping clutch to start) for 300 dollars, To make things as easy as I could I swapped the 3L and trans together into the contour, came out the cougar and went right into the contour, all went well, with the normal knuckle busting.
with the key in and on I have a flashing oil light and thats it, No headlights, brake lights etc., backlights behind dash gauges, i havent tested much inside due to also having stating issues. a missing ground possiably?
The current grounds i know of that i checked, that I wouldve touched while swappng the motor and those are
-Hood to body
-small ecu to body in that same area
-coilpack ground
-trans bolt to battery (one car had a ground from here to body aswell the other didnt)
-black and yellow wire coming out bottom of fuse box grounded to battery
Any others im missing? this is only my 2nd time swapping these motors, so i know i dont know everything
On to the other starting issues
First with the old motor in having starting issues what i found out was jumpping pins 3 and 5 (ithink was months ago) the starter would turn the motor but no start. a dead battery ended troubleshooting that day, and was left with that. I have swapped motor and trans completely with a different starter so its not the same one that was on it.
It's possible that the starter on the new motor is bad and I will be testing pins 3 and 5 again to see if the starter does anything if not ill swap them out and go from there. I havent started that yet knowing there are other eletrical issues aswell not knowing if anything would be related.
All help is greatly wanted, I will try to provide whatever info yall need on request for anything ive missed.