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Posted by awsm66 (93SE) on July 18, 2002 at 21:23:23:
In Reply to: VE owners..riddle me this..(eng cont relay) (long) posted by abdul on July 18, 2002 at 21:00:47:
: This weekend I was going to pull out the dash and trace the wires from the engine cont relay and engine fuse box to check for continuity..looks like I'll be doing something else. If anyone else can confirm this anomaly, I wonder why there would be an eng cont fuse and a relay if there is no need for it to begin with. : Thanks in Advance.
: My 92 SE cranks for a while before it starts..I have troubleshot everything from fuel delivery to ignition and I still can't cure it...Earlier this month, I checked the engine cont relay and the eng cont fuse in the panel...removing them both allowed the car to start..which should not obviously happen. I posted here and a couple of people confirmed it should not happen. I tried the same in my 90 GXE and the car refused to start..so..I carried on suspecting an obvious short in the wiring somewhere causing the car (92 SE) not to start. I went down to my mechanics shop today and there sat a customers 92 SE which came in for a brake Job. Scanning visually over the car and for the sake of science, I removed both the Eng cont green relay and the eng cont fuse and the car started fine !!! My mechanic and I are standing there, nodding heads as to why that happened !? When I previously measured the voltage on the 90 GXE, only 2 legs of the Eng Cont relay box had +12V and my 92 SE had 3 legs with +12V leading me to automatically suspecting a short. Today, I measured the customer's 92SE and 3 legs of the relay had +12V Now, this leads me to think that I don't have a short in my car and the issue is something else. Can one of you fellow VE owners try out my aforementioned test on their car to verify I'm not losing my sanity ?
: Abdul