1999 Dodge Intrepid 2.7 Lost Ground
kennethe
11-13-2011, 03:45 PM
To make a long story short, my car would start and run perfectly. It just had a little front engine noise after warm-up. I decided to replace the primary timing chain and tensioner. When I got everything back togather, I am not getting fire to the ignition coils. I backtracked through the fuse to the Auto Shut Off Relay. The relay checked good but I don't have a ground to terminal #85 with the ignition switch on. I found that the two identical relays for the radiator cooling fans have the same problem. I can run a ground wire to the #85 terminal on each of these relays and the fans will run and there is voltage to the coils. Of course, the engine will not run like this. Everything else electrical (lights, radio, wipers, turn signals, etc.) works fine. Does this sound like the PCM has crashed or does someone hopefully know of a less expensive quick fix?
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