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Roland. It will not let me forward your answer. It say's 2000 count message max. Please let me know what wires to check with ohm meter!
AnswerHi Pat,
How is it going with the '98 T & C?
Interestingly another owner of the same model and year has written and quoted back to me your original question from mid-May and saying that his problem is identical!
Can you give me an update on whether and how the problems you were have were resolved so that I might share that experience?
Thanks for taking the effort to help.
Roland
P.S. If I am shown as maxed out please write to my email:
rfinston@hotmail.com
And for your information, here is your original question and my response to it on 5/19. Is the problem just as you described it then?
"Sometimes my town and country will not start. When I turn the key nothing happens. Everything but the Dash and the starter works. If I unhook the battery it will reset after 20 min - 15 hours and start. It stalls on first start then it will run on second start. I also from time to time lose the dash (speed , RPM, Gas and mileage) when this happens the ABS light comes on then the air bag then the alarm set light. After driving it it will kick back on and lock all the doors and regain function. Please help. If you have any Questions please e-mail me at bballref88@yahoo.com
Answer: Hi Pat,
There are four switches that are needed to close to get the starter to run, and several fuses. The switches are: ignition, starter relay, park/neutral safety switch on the trans, and starter solenoid that clicks loudly at the starter motor. The fuses are: #23 (40 amp)in the underhood long thin power box, # 10 under the dash (10 amp). The dash needs fuse #2 under the dash (10 amp) and fuse #10 (10 amp) in the power box. So you might want to look at all those fuses carefully to see if one might be cracked internally and thus intermittantly opening up which would shut down functions temporarily until it spontaneously closed with a change in temperature. I am working with the Haynes manual rather than the Chrysler shop manual so I am a bit limited in explaing the ABS, airbag and alarm set light involvement with a fuse if it is the cause, but I do notice also that the #10 fuse in the power box is needed by the body computer which is involved with those three systems' controls. So my inclination would be that the #10 fuse in the power box is flakey. When the engine won't start, go to the power box and see if the starter motor relay clicks or not when a helper tries the ignition switch starter position. That will tell you a bit about things (if it does that means the ignition switch and the park neutral safety switch are o.k. as well as fuse 10 in the power box) if not then either of those switches or fuse 10 may be bad and you will need to check with a voltmeter at the relay to test which (I will let you know which wires if you have a voltmeter to do that). So I guess that I haven't found a magic bullet that explains everything yet, but maybe this will get you started toward the answer.
Roland"
P.S. Does your meter also measure volts. or just ohms?
Roland
Hi Pat,
My experience in the past was that if I just bring up the window to wrote a response, that all of the most immediate past question and earlier exchanges would be there for me to add to, so that a complete history of the interchange was available to both parties. I know they modified the site recently so that may not be case today.
In any case what I still need to know is whether you looked into the fuses that I listed on 5/19 becasue I don't find any record of what you learned from that exercise? If you have, and found that all the fuses are o.k., then I would appreciate it if you would tell me again what is exactly the describption of your present problem so that we can develop a dialog here with a history so that we can make some progress. And again, is there something about "number 11" that you wanted to tell me? I can't tell you what to do with the ohmmeter until I know about the current problem and the fuse situation. There are hundreds of measurements that you could do, but I am trying to narrow down the problem to something that makes sense.
Roland
