QuestionQUESTION: Sorry, I don't have the link to reply for another question at home, but, I have checked every fuse under the hood and inside the vehicle itself and they are all good, Whenever the MAF sparked it did blow the ECCS fuse which is why I thought it might be the ECU, I replaced that fuse and rechecked all fuses again, the weird thing is I am getting good voltage at the distributor, and it's a brand new distributor, I am only getting .05 volts on the top of the distributor, and .02 @ the end of the plug wires, this is why I thought it would be the Crank Position Sensor, but nothing has worked, the vehicle just turns and turns and turns, and no spark. Plugs are even brand new,the relays under the hood click when I turn the kay, everything seems to be normal, it just will not start up. Rotor is good and brand new, and just to be safe I filed it down a little bit, I have run completely out of ideas. Thanks for all your help,
ANSWER: Travis,
If you are not getting voltage to the coil there is an issue with the ignition. I would back probe the circuit starting at the ignition switch and go from there through the firewall to the coil. I can't imagine the mass airflow sensor causing this. But, stranger things have happened. If there is current going to the starter it should also feed the coil. I bet a fuseable link is blown at the positive cable or in the ignition circuit. Electrical is a pain to trace and it just takes time and a test light and a volt/ohm meter.
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QUESTION: I backprobed all of the wiring going to the distributor, There is no ignition coil on this engine, there is one on the 3.5L but not the 3.3. I have a distributor cap and rotor, but there is no center wire where the coil would normally lead to. I can't find anything about coil packs or gel packs or anything for this engine in the Haynes book, It's weird though, whenever it first happened I took it to the shop and they put a P code scanner on the ECU and it would not read it and they said that meant a fuse is blown somewhere, but I can't find any blown fuses anywhere.Is there another fuse that goes to the ECU that I don't know of, or possibly a relay causing all this? I tested power to the ECU and it is getting 12 volts to all connections that I can find. I know there is an ECM relay somewhere on the vehicle, but I haven't been able to find it. This is really helping me a lot though, making me think of things I wouldn't normally think to check for. Thanks again,
AnswerOK, if yours has a cap and rotor it has an internal coil if there is no central wire. Take the distributor a part and look at the internals. I still say that you should get 12 volts to the distributor when your attempt to start and 9 when it is in the run mode. If there is voltage of this type getting to it the distributor is defective.
