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Hey there, viewers welcome back to the self painting channel, that's our 2003. I believe it is dodge decoder. It's got the big 3.7 liter in it. She's two-wheel drive with a stick shift uh customer complaint.

Is they put a transmission in it or no? They put a clutch in it, sorry and after that it didn't run um. That's all i know we just pushed it inside sma's most eligible bachelor is this: o3j is plugging in the scan tool. 07. 2007 non-hemi dodge ram.

I don't even know what we're talking about. This point doesn't run, let's figure it out. Well, our eligible bachelor is hooking up the scan tool. Here there are some things that are missing.

This is just how we received it, so no air intake. So the only thing it's not a big deal, we'll run without an intake air temp sensor is open. Here, looks like a brand new throttle body uh. So i don't know.

Maybe it has throttle body codes, that's what you do when you get the code so we'll see, i don't know what could have went wrong through the clutch changing process. My initial thought is, i think the crank sensor on these is in uh the bell housing. So perhaps that got snapped off but uh now that i say that i see, i think this is the connector for it and that looks like a pretty shiny new wire. So maybe they put a new crank sensor in it too didn't get much information from the fella, but we're gon na take all that stuff that we know we'll.

Stick it right in our back pocket because you don't want to go guessing based on what you know. The customer did we're going to follow the facts. What's up, mrs bill rise, the paperwork and she writes you're the best husband, a woman could ever have wow. This is pretty deep.

Jay got our codes pulled up here, intake air temp center. That's because it's unplugged that we know um electronic throttle control unable to open, but that's new. So we know that's good and then asd main main board. The main board shot just kidding folks uh, all kids inside intake air temp, that's gon na! Be there because it's open circuited these two we're going to be concerned with mostly this one uh, this auto shutdown relay that's a pretty big player on the chrysler's, the 685! That's what we're going to look into! I believe the auto shutdown that controls a lot on these little guys, so let's focus our efforts on there and that will probably resolve this.

I'm assuming, but this is where we're going first, i'm sitting here to look up some data and jason made a good point telling me that i'm an idiot that the crank sensors do not go into the bell housing on these uh. These three sevens are the infamous ones that go on the side of the block, so i don't know what connector i'm looking at in the back and then it just goes to show that you guys can't trust me, even though i tell you to trust me, so We had to put the battery charger on it. We've got a certain nuclear uh. The only setting a battery charger has around here now i pulled up the auto shutdown relay information, so the desired state.
You know what the uh pick them is command or if you have yeah pick them tip them or ecm, whoever controls it. You know what it's commanding to turn this thing on and then i believe the filtered switch state is the actual. So i think this is desired and this would be seen as actual and i command it on, and it says the desire is on, but the filtered switch state remains off. So that tells me like hey it's not, you know turned it on exactly as it says.

I've yet to look up a wiring diagram to see what it runs. Jason's got the cover off the fuse box right now and he's pointing to the relay. So let's go see what we see so where is it at jay this one? Okay? So he says that the auto shutdown relay - and he also says, there's a fuse for it this one here, it's a big honker, sorry, this one here is it blown. Can you see the top of it? It is blowing.

Yes, it is blown awesome, really really ruining. My life, so it's a big jk's fuse so jason's gon na pop that out we go upstairs josh and grab us one of them at 30, amp jks, he broke it live on camera folks. Here we go i'm gon na zoom in on it. So i can see your hack work you're doing all right.

So there she is boy she's. She blasted right open to me, see that. Can you see in there so she's split open, so that's junk standard classic 30 amp jk, sir uh, my boy josh going upstairs to get us one. This is gon na be expensive.

There's three dudes working on this thing: 85 bucks an hour times: three accountants not liking this one wow uh. So what we'll do um? I think we won't play we're gon na play stupid, we're not gon na plug a fuse and jason's gon na go in the middle lock right there he's gon na get us our fuses. Our circuit breakers we're gon na plug a circuit breaker in and see. If that blows, because if something happened in the process here of the clutch job and uh smoking the fuses, i want to know about it before we go popping jk's fuses, all right.

I said it right over here and then this little guy, we, i think we got ones with female, will that fit on the fuse or that one, let's see if that one fits so he's going to try to fit that down in the box. Now it does not have a fuse in that loop right now, but we got a 30 amp circuit. Breaker will stick in its place, it's providing that we can get that in there there. You go.

Stick that in the fuse holder, it's quite the rigorous. We got going on here today. I bought this tool. Boom fan, fan or something burned it or something.

I remember i had to tape it. I wonder happy about it, so these are 30 amp circuit breakers. This is a mac tools, one i don't know who really makes it for them, not mac tools all right, so i'm gon na turn it off. I'm gon na toggle it off and then we're gon na see.

If we hear any sizzling well, it didn't blow the breaker right away. So now we'll work on scan data, we'll turn it on. Oh, it turned on now. We just wait, look for smoke and wait for this to blow.
We could stick a uh, a fuse buddy in there and see. Let me get one we'll see how many amps it's drawing, so we're going to use this little guy we're just plugging it in i've, got a 20 amp fuse in this um. So we're just going to take our circuit breaker. Out being that we know it's not a dead short shouldn't blow our 20 amp either famous last words.

Stick that baby in there we got her zeroed out um. So let's see here we'll turn it on uh. Let's see on and there we are we're drawing five amps four amps must be. I think that runs the fuel pump and stuff so probably that initial inrush of current was the fuel pump, but i think we're okay, we're, okay to start it so we're gon na shut it off you wan na.

Do the honors jay see if this thing runs. My work well yeah, if i hadn't done any relearns or plus it's aftermarket anyhow. Ah, well folks, it's silly as it sounds uh. This is kind of a silly video, so we went through and did an electronic throttle.

Relearn we'll see what code she's got stored in it. None detected intake air temp, so yeah, it's only coach sword in it. So but the throttle light went out. That's no longer flashing, all right! That's it folks! Uh! Don't know why or when or who or where or what we just make them, how we see them? Well, that's it folks! This can make you walk.

I don't know why it blew and um, but i know right now: it's not a high amperage draw and it's not a dead short. So i don't know if something got goofed up in the process. Maybe when the trainee's out of it things unhook, the key got turned on. Something was touching where it shouldn't, and you know who knows the rest is history.

Remember, step one disconnect your negative battery, always follow that rule uh and it's you know silly something silly like this uh could happen uh and that's it really not much. We can say about this one sorry for this short video. We can always hope for something epic, but you just see what we see and i want to see you in that comment section tell me the silly things you've done and overlooked working on cars uh in your life, for some of the simplest repairs that you've done. Where something like this, while you're down there, subscribe the bell, the insty, the facebook just from our viewers, i can do it thanks for watching you.


By EricO

9 thoughts on “Dodge Dakota: No Start After Clutch Replacement”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars PassiveDestroyer says:

    I was diagnosing the blower motor circuit on a 01 Durango, and the blower fuse kept popping. I traced the short to the resistor, which was fried and replaced it. I replaced both fuse and resistor, and they both fried after a couple of minutes. Took the blower motor out, and ran it straight from battery power, and it seemed to work fine. It took me entirely too long to realize the blower motor harness was shorting to itself, causing the fuse to blow. Then I looked at the resistor connector, and it too was shorting to itself. After I replaced that connector, the resistor, and the fuse yet again, I finally got the blower blowing without problems.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Clint Price says:

    I put the upper radiator hose and clamp on just as the phone rang so I stopped and answered the phone. When I went back to the car I forgot I didn’t tighten clamp and was on the highway when the hose blew off and I kept driving to get off the exit (bad decision) and overheated the 390 Ford engine. What ended up happening was the rings collapsed and it burned a quart a day after that so I just sold the body to a guy who had a god engine and learned a hard life’s lesson. Do not start a step on anything that you can’t fully complete at that moment. Today I would have pulled that hose end off before going to the phone.
    I hope this helps someone here.
    These videos are great. I appreciate all the humor.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jochen Stacker says:

    Replaced the turbo on my 2005 Focus Cmax 2 liter diesel, took me a few days. Checked and double-checked everything and started her up.
    Engine ran fine for a few seconds and then shuddered to a halt.
    I was full sure the timing belt had snapped and the engine was destroyed. Didn't go near it for a week and then I decided to turn the engine over by hand to find where it was binding up. Turned it three or four times and no problems.
    Turns out I didn't connect the fuel line properly, so it ran out of gas.
    Car ran great after that and after thinking I wrecked the engine and wasted money on a new turbo, that was pretty sweet.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Thompson says:

    So my wife called me one morning the car was no crank, nearly new Saturn vue with the 3.5 Honda, i drive the couple miles to the McDonald's parking lot test and have a look, I tested everything I could think of, normally she goes through the drive thru, only important because of the solution, I even go home to get my key thinking a key chip issue, Its raining and I still don't have any ideas, I call a tow truck and get in passenger seat, as I wipe my face off I reach over to the shifter put the car in park and start the car…………. I still tease her about that sometimes.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Salazar says:

    Many years ago some mechanic buddies of mine were ceaselessly working on a big old Cadillac and getting nowhere. It took a piano player like me to tell them to pull out both fuel injectors and take a reading with an ohmeter. Lo and behold one of 'em gave a reading in the high megaohm range. Jaws dropped realising I was right. Was replaced and ran fine. That was the day I realized I was just as smart as a real mechanic!

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars thedreadedgman says:

    Looked at a friend's Honda Orthia (sort of a JDM Civic Wagon) – complaint: idle speed was full throttle… Visual inspection – (other friends and "mechanics" had already looked) – the ground wire (at the top of the engine right at the front) was corroded/damaged, so the throttle cable had became the new ground and melted solid… couldn't believe no one else had noticed the broken ground strap at the top front right in your face as you look at engine…

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars pickle street customs says:

    I did a clutch and flywheel for my father in law on a v6 Dakota. Ran awful after, could not figure out why. Worked on it for days. Turns out the flywheel company put the reluctor ring on the flywheel backwards so the crank signal was opposite what it should be. Visually it was so minor it took taking it all back apart and messing the gaps to realize it. What a pita! Found a junkyard flywheel and good as new.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars quadpit says:

    I replaced my first power steering pump ever in my 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee and missed removing the rubber plug in the return line fitting and installed the return line hose unaware it was still plugged. Filled the pump, did my unpowered side-to-side and fired-up the Jeep and the pump didn't work. After a few minutes I noticed the reservoir was empty so I turned it off, filled it up, and tried again but this time it blew the return hose spraying fluid all over the engine. I spent about 45 min trying to diagnose the problem, pulled the pump and then was able to see the rubber plug inserted into the return fitting. Bonehead move I was able to laugh about but embarrassing at the same time as my impatience to install it and get to bed caused me to not inspect the pump like I should have before installation.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ReallyNotBob says:

    I think I replied this before, but my friend had a 1995 Volvo 850 sedan and occasionally it left him hoofing it. The shop his family liked taking vehicles to, "diagnosed" it as a fuel pump, and put a new one in it each time. Which if I remember correctly, they did it at no cost to them each time after the first. They were trying to get rid of the car for a while because they thought it was the car's fault. Then it acted up when it was parked at my house, crank, no-start. I didn't know much about cars but I know a bit about electricity, got my trusty old multimeter out, and hooked the leads on the fuel pump. No voltage at all. Then I got to thinking, not only was the guy putting fuel pumps in it, he was also giving the car a ride on his rollback. Meaning rough ride. I was thinking that the mechanic probably tested it before he loaded it up to head back to the shop, not after the trip. So I pulled the fuel pump relay, gave it a few taps, and stuck it back in. Car started right up, and ran like a champ. Trip to NAPA (not a sponsor), new relay, and that car drove problem free for another couple of years, until it started burning so much oil my friend didn't want to deal with it anymore, and sold it to a guy willing to replace the engine or rebuild it.

    Edit: Tip to mechanics: If you don't know enough about electricity to read for voltage on the multimeter, or to trace a simple flow diagram to pinpoint an issue, maybe learn it or refer to someone that has more knowledge in that regard. Don't be afraid to ask for help when working out of your own expertise.

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