Year to Year Electrical ?

So the eclipse I picked up ends up having a fried ECU come to find out. It's a 1998 but it has the wire harness of a different car i'm not sure what but whatever. Anyways I spent about 2 1/2 hours today stripping the inside and removing the dash to put in the wire harness from my white 97 GS.

So after I do this I notice a few things are still missing plugs such as 2 spots on the blower motor for climate , some down by the fuse block , the dash lights don't work and the car will not turn over now.

Heres what I know of it - Repo -> stolen back from Repo -> trashed by owners -> Re-repo'd and then sold to me.

Everything as far as turn signals , headlights , hazard lights , stereo , A/C , dome lights , SRS , CEL , Brake, etc clutster lights ( minus actual back light for night driving. ) all works...all I can say is WTF!

I have not missed a single thing , over looked anything and all the fuses are in good shape..i'm at a complete loss right now. OH and the under hood harness looks a lot differen than mine and wtf with there being some sensor on the coolant bottle :/

The coolant sensor comes on when the bottles gets low. Mine has it, but has NEVER come on. I've seen quite a few of them without the sensors.

The rest, IDK.

OK well heres some pictures...

We'll start with the bottle sensor -> In this pic you can see it circled and the plug is there but it has been cut from the wires...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/ohjiro/Eclipse%202/Problems/0301081625a.jpg

In this picture here , the upper right corner has what looks to be 4 relays..my others only have 3. The lower right portion circled looks as if it's 2 ECU's or something or another..
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/ohjiro/Eclipse%202/Problems/0301081625.jpg

In this one here , right behind the glove box - there was two plugs for whatever these are but after wire harness change one remains empty...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/ohjiro/Eclipse%202/Problems/0301081624a.jpg

In this one there are 2 different male / female plugs here. One from the harness with only 2 and the one mounted to the blower motor with what looks to be either a 6 or 8 pin connecter.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/ohjiro/Eclipse%202/Problems/0301081624.jpg

i really hope you stole that car, because thats a mess of trouble!

I only paid a little bit for it =) so I don't mind investing a few bucks if need be.

Well fuck..I called a friend who was a lead mechanic at Ken Garff Mitsu. a while back and he says that it sounds like they put old parts in it or something ? I don't know but basically it has a 95' system in it or some shit and won't work with the 97' cab harness.

So now I get the wonderous joys of changing the engine bay harness and shit -_- not a big deal since I have all the crap from my 97' but god damn I do not enjoy this ...

So what are the differences in the 2G NT's as far as electrical from 1995 - 96 - 97 - 98 & 1999 ?

The 2 ECUs are for automatics. One for the ECU, the other for the tranny ECU.

Still not sure on differences though

The only real big thing between the electrical years is the ECU I believe. The 95-96 has a smaller computer than the 97-99. Those relays up on the firewall are for different things. IIRC, one of them is for the tranny on an auto, one is an automatic shutdown relay (ASD), and I believe the othe 2 are for the ignition/starting system.

One of the replay on the firewall goes to the fuel pump.

OK I think I got it figured out. Fired it up , let it reach OT and checked out the guages and everything works as far as RPM , fuel , Temp , PB light , tail lights work , head lights work , heater / a/c work , rear defrot works , hazards work , turn signals were blinking rapidly before harness change but work normal now , horn works , SRS system funtioning so all good there...

However ! I cannot seem to get the god damn dash lights to work for the life of me..wtf ? -_- All fuses are good , connectors are locked in place from the colum to the harness , the switch when activated works for headlights , parking lights , tail lights and high beams but no dash lights...for the love of anything help...lol

OK I think I got it figured out. Fired it up , let it reach OT and checked out the guages and everything works as far as RPM , fuel , Temp , PB light , tail lights work , head lights work , heater / a/c work , rear defrot works , hazards work , turn signals were blinking rapidly before harness change but work normal now , horn works , SRS system funtioning so all good there...

However ! I cannot seem to get the god damn dash lights to work for the life of me..wtf ? -_- All fuses are good , connectors are locked in place from the colum to the harness , the switch when activated works for headlights , parking lights , tail lights and high beams but no dash lights...for the love of anything help...lol
check the dimmer switch, took me FOREVER to come up with that, i had what seemed like a floating voltage... that was it, give it a go... :2cents:

EDIT: any word on those switches you sent out 2 weeks ago for the second time? lol still nothing...

check the dimmer switch, took me FOREVER to come up with that, i had what seemed like a floating voltage... that was it, give it a go... :2cents:

EDIT: any word on those switches you sent out 2 weeks ago for the second time? lol still nothing...

Haha it was the dimmer switch..wtf -_-

PS : You should of had them by now :/ I've been busy with our leads so I haven't been out in the warehouse to get any info on anything lately..my work life is like a tornado right now lol..I barely got home at like 8:00 pm.

Haha it was the dimmer switch..wtf -_-

PS : You should of had them by now :/ I've been busy with our leads so I haven't been out in the warehouse to get any info on anything lately..my work life is like a tornado right now lol..I barely got home at like 8:00 pm.

AH, points for me! dimmer switches FTL!!!

nah, its cool, i was just wondering if you knew anything... the post office is going to get tired of you! lol... you did get my address right this time right?