Crank, no start and no spark.

[Con2er]

So I took my rear valve cover off to troubleshoot a noise I've been having, but everything looked fine.

When I put everything back together the engine cranks, but won't start. I have double and triple checked my connections and firing order.

The harness going to the distribution block looks pretty bad, so maybe something happened to it when I moved it out of the way to do the valve cover.

Any ideas on what else to check, before I tear into this harness?

 

[squeek]

Grounding strap on the coil pack? Check three big plugs on the passenger side.

 

[Con2er]

I just found a previous topic that mentioned the three plugs and one of them was almost completely separated. I cleaned them out let them dry and reconnected.

Now it at least try's to start. Before it would just crank and crank. Now it cranks, sounds like it's going to turn over then cranks some more. The grounding strap is intact.

Just to make sure the firing order is

Coil Pack
465
321

Engine
123
456

 

[Con2er]

​I'm pretty sure it's a harness issue and that I'm lucky it ran before I disturbed what ever finally broke.

Here's my distro block. There is no grounding strap That I know of. I thought the wire with the grey box was it. I've never had any other wires other than the ones shown.





I'm guessing this is the cam position sensor. I didn't even mess with it before, but you can see both wires are bare. Since it's cranking and trying to start now, I'm assuming I have spark even though I haven't tested that again yet.



This might be the final straw for this car. Not good timing either, because I am retiring from the Air Force very soon and really didn't want to take on a car payment and I really love this car.

 

[Con2er]

Double post

 

[satya_svt98]

so swap the harness and your good..

 

[Con2er]

so swap the harness and your good..

Not sure where I would get a harness especially around here and what would the quality be?

I got the car running once I isolated the Cam pos sensor wires and these bad boys.



What a mess. I'm moving back to Arizona soon. I hope my temp fix ends up working. I'm going to try and wrap the individual wires with teflon and electrical tape. Then wrap the harness with some self adhesive tape and some new tubing.

 

[Con2er]

Fixed. It's not perfect, but I patched the wires with Teflon tape and electrical tape. I skipped the self adhesive stuff, but wrapped the entire bundle with a bit more Teflon and covered it all in tubing.



Test drive was successful.

 

[squeek]

Now you can a injector harness from a early 99 duratec. Just make sure is still a return fuel system. Now if it's a manual grab it. Cause there's away to convert it to work. Just let me know.