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iskidoo

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Posted: November 20, 2005 at 8:36 AM / IP Logged

Check under the hood and see if he has a wire spliced into the blue/green wire at the coil pack. You would see a wire coming through the firewall on the drivers side into the engine compartment. It then runs to the the coil pack and you should see a wire connected. If you don't see one then ask the installer where he connected to for tach. He might have just used a poor tach wire or the settings need to be tweaked. The voltage sense can be used but the tach is more reliable. The symptoms you described of igniton and everything coming on but it's not running are common to voltage sense settings.

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Posted: November 21, 2005 at 12:49 AM / IP Logged

Settings need to be tweeked.....

Car was done here, by one of my underlings. Tach was on the blue/green, if I remember. Gave us an "over rev" shutdown code. Dunno if the boy changed any thresholds as far as crank time, or voltage check level or not. He'll be calling this customer first thing monday morning ( he was supposed to call him Sat., but I was so bloody busy, I forgot to hound him about it.)

Rooty toot toot...... looks like the boy gets to experience the wonders of Ford country!

Gus

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iskidoo

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Posted: November 21, 2005 at 12:52 AM / IP Logged

Show him the way gus lol

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Posted: November 21, 2005 at 12:59 AM / IP Logged

Oh... I will. Just before he comes to work, he better find his way to Tim Hortons as well. :-)

Noob error, I imagine. Prolly a bunk ground as well, I figure. Some of those Escorts are a bit tricky '99 Ford Escort ZX2, Viper 130XV - Page 2 -- posted image.

Gus

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gh057

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Posted: November 21, 2005 at 7:51 AM / IP Logged

Your Tim's will be on your bench this morning Gus!. And if I recall I was busy on Sat too. Thanks for all the input guys and Nufan be expecting a call before lunch to get your car in and fixed up.

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Posted: November 21, 2005 at 12:59 PM / IP Logged

so...confused :| gh.....hmmm that makes sense now !

chris354

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Posted: November 21, 2005 at 11:57 PM / IP Logged

If you will use an injector wire on the fords it will elminate the over rev and short cranks on the ford when using dei product. Since dei changed the rs this is only reliable source for the tach signal on the fords.

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Posted: December 09, 2005 at 1:18 PM / IP Logged

hey guys im sorry to bring up this old thread but im still having some problems with my Viper as stated above.

Have been back a few times to the installer and they have tried lots of stuff. I still am having a couple of problems.

1) It still seems to refuse to start when it gets a little cold. When plugged in the starter will start the car without fail. I understand when its REALLY cold that the car needs to be plugged in but this morning it was only -6 and the starter was a no go. It tries to crank over, everything in the car turns on (lights, radio etc.) but the car doesnt start. The "brains" have already been replaced.

2) Since it has been installed, i have noticed a wierd thing happening with the red light on my dashboard for the emergency brake (handbrake light, whatever u wanna call it). It lights up as if you have the handbrake on even though of course you don't. It happens when you accelerate off the mark pretty much until you take the foot off the gas. It seems to happen more when you have started the car with the remote starter and then put the key in rather than actually starting the car with the key. This is a strange one and the only reason i bring it up here is because it has never done this until the remote starter was installed.

Hope this makes sense, trying to narrow things down so can call installer back again and try get this sorted out.

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Posted: December 09, 2005 at 8:59 PM / IP Logged

On the second issue sounds like brake fluid is low.

iskidoo

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Posted: December 09, 2005 at 10:31 PM / IP Logged

I'm sure they checked this but did the installer use both Ignition wires? Could the 2nd igniton be wired but dropping out like an accessory wire. Maybe the accessory and 2nd Ignition are swapped by accident. In which case swapping the brain wouldn't change a thing. Go back and double check those in particular.

The brake light coming on only during remote start sounds very much like when a GM vehicle remote starts without the 2nd Ignition and turns the Check Engine light on.

Steve G

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