Mustang running fine for month and today wont start (no crank no power no nothing!)
09-12-2010, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ca
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Mustang running fine for month and today wont start (no crank no power no nothing!)
Ive been looking around online for awhile now and cant really find anyone with my exact same problem (mostly because they all get power in the car to accessories and lights and what not) Here is the info
88 5.0 GT hatchback
I put on a new starter a month ago and today have checked all the wires going from the battery to the solenoid to the starter and the ground to the engine block and all seems to be in order and no corrosion. Yesterday I had the AC charged in the morning and drove it to several other places and everything started and ran fine. Today when I first went to start my car when I put the key in nothing.... No lights, no door chime saying my keys are in, no clicks, no fuel pump... I tried jumping it and still nothing. The only thing that moves is my RPM needle will drop slightly sometimes.
88 5.0 GT hatchback
I put on a new starter a month ago and today have checked all the wires going from the battery to the solenoid to the starter and the ground to the engine block and all seems to be in order and no corrosion. Yesterday I had the AC charged in the morning and drove it to several other places and everything started and ran fine. Today when I first went to start my car when I put the key in nothing.... No lights, no door chime saying my keys are in, no clicks, no fuel pump... I tried jumping it and still nothing. The only thing that moves is my RPM needle will drop slightly sometimes.
09-12-2010, 05:02 PM
#3
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 9
hey bud I had the same problem before. My issue was the solenoid. Buy one of them, its cheap and Id start there. I have an 87 and it ran me about 21 bucks at advance auto. Im pretty sure your solenoid is bad or your battery is ****. Best of luck!
09-12-2010, 05:24 PM
#4
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NJ
Posts: 219
Battery and Solenoid are good things to check, my car died on me and it turned out to be the TFI module, http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...1t:429,r:3,s:0 Thats what it looks like, its on your distributer. Pretty popular problem for fox bodys due to high temps under the hood.
09-12-2010, 08:55 PM
#5
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: N.C.
Posts: 1,893
No power has nothing to do with ignition module. Read. Remove batery get it checked or borrow one from another vehicle. I have 3 cars ,truck ,boat, crossover so battery is everywhere here. Check ground cable and positive cable to starter relay.
09-12-2010, 09:38 PM
#6
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: AZ
Posts: 18
I had the same exact problem..My RPM needle would move slightly and my shift light would flash once and that was it..My problem was a ground wire,not the wire from the battery to engine block,but the little wire that goes off from the battery,it was burnt up from a bad ground location,I replaced that wire and cleaned up the ground location and all was good.
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