remote start problem

i have a viper 550hf

when the vehicle is started with

the remote start it keeps the starter engaged

95 mercury cougar , what could be the problem?

thank you for your help

I haven't worked as an installer for a few years... but if memory servers me correctly your problem has to do with the tach.  The alarm is set to tach sensing and is not correctly programmed to the tach.

Either change it to voltage sensing or re-program the tach wire.

It is also possible that you have the wrong wire connected to the starter... you may want to double check that too.

On the 1995 Mercury Cougar the tach wire is the ORANGE / WHITE wire located at the Ignition Control Module On Passenger Wheel well. ORANGE / WHITE wire is  Located At Pin #2.

sgf323 is right about the tach programming not being correct. Re-program the tach learning function and it should remedy the problem. Make sure that you have the 2 nd ignition wire ( GRAY / YELLOW ) installed as well.

thanks for the tach info

there is 3 gray w / YELLOW wires

2 are bigger and are the heater control wires

is the other one the second ignition the diagram on this site says nothing about a second ignition wire

thanks

Ford vehicles are equipped with Heater/AC blower motors which draw large amounts of current. These vehicles are equipped with three Ignition 2 wires. Two of these are very thick (12 gauge). The other wire is a smaller 14 - 16 gauge. All of these wires are ‘hot’ (+12 volts) in the run position only.

Note: Thin wire will be either Pink/Black or Gray / YELLOW .Thick wires will be either Gray / YELLOW or BLACK/ Lt. Green.