Randomly died after rebuild.
Randomly died after rebuild.
The motor was rebuilt about 1 month ago and everything has ran fine since. PCM4less did the tune for the 355, cam, and heads. The car has ran great and it just died yesterday when I got out to check the mail. This isn't too unusual considering it was cold and the A/C was on. I get back in and start it up, but it is now in severe limp mode and a has horrible miss throughout the rpm range. The car won't idle without giving it gas. There is no SES light on. I tried unplugging the negative end of the battery cable to reset pcm, but that didn't help. I took it to have it scanned (by a tech that has successfully scanned it before) and the scanner said it couldn't make a connection with the PCM. Opti, fuel pump, injectors, and coil all have less than 5000 miles on them. Could this possible be a bad PCM since the scanner can't establish a connection?
I'm willing to bet the whoever tried to scan it saw the 16-pin OBD-II style ALDL connector on your 95, assumed it was an OBD-II PCM, and tried to scan it using an OBD-II scanner. Won't work, because your 95 has an OBD-I PCM, with the odd-ball-95-only 16-pin OBD-I ALDL connector.
Use an OBD-I scanner with a 12-pin->16-pin adapter, or jumper the 12-pin scanner connector to your 16-pin ALDL connector as shown on Shoebox's website:
Use an OBD-I scanner with a 12-pin->16-pin adapter, or jumper the 12-pin scanner connector to your 16-pin ALDL connector as shown on Shoebox's website:
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Formula Steve
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Sep 19, 2023 08:31 AM



