To make Roadie proud

[JazzDad]

OK, I had the vehicle cranking but no start. (It is interesting how you release the key and it continues to crank until it's good and ready to stop.) All associated fuses were good. I swapped relay 46 and it made no difference. I think I heard the fuel pump running for the 2 seconds after turning on the key, but didn't remember what it sounded like before. Pulled relay 46 and no pump noise. Now, the pump could still be spinning but not generating enough pressure. I did not have a fuel pressure gauge, so just pushed the Schrader core (with key off) and fuel spurted out. I read about the notorious ignition switches. So I pull apart the column and check the switch. Again, I know it could ohm out and not pass current. I'm looking under the hood again and guess what I see?

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The little #*&%@ didn't leave me much to work with.

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14 solder joints, electrical tape and tubing later.

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Total repair time: 4 hours. I wonder how much the dealer would have charged?

 

[navigator]

The Roadie thinks your tubing needs to be straighter next time you shrink something, that looks like electrical tape....

j/k, nice work on that and resolving your problem!

 

[STLtrailbSS]

Jesus I would be furious nice recovery work thouh

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Nice work.

 

[Black_tb]

wow great work there

 

[mika]

did you have roadent stew for dinner??? good job bud.

 

[Hatchet]

Nicely done.

 

[The_Roadie]

Yep, I'm impressed. The dealer would refuse for liability reasons to repair a connector like that, and insisted on installing a new wiring harness for $900 parts and $2850 in labor. The OS volunteers would have continued to insist it was the ignition switch.

We gotta start adding "rodent damage?" to the troubleshooting checklist.

 

[Jman423]

Yep, I'm impressed...

WHAT!?!?!?!?

I waited all day to see your response, and that was it?

 

[Hatchet]

WHAT!?!?!?!?

I waited all day to see your response, and that was it?

yea i expected more as well... but good repair non the less

 

[Jman423]

yea i expected more as well... but good repair non the less

Oh, there is nothing wrong with the repair... I just expected a lot more from roadie, especially since his name is in the thread title.

 

[Blckshdw]

I thought the OP was going to say he read the service manual cover to cover

Nice work on the wiring repair, I know I woulda been royally pissed to pop the hood and find that too!!

 

[The_Roadie]

I'm packing to leave my hotel in Korea in 15 minutes, to get home after two weeks in miserable 5-10 degree weather I'm not used to. I almost didn't check in at all this morning. I guess I should have said the use of solder and not blue painter's tape for wire wrap is a good example for others?

 

[Regulator]

I'm packing to leave my hotel in Korea in 15 minutes, to get home after two weeks in miserable 5-10 degree weather I'm not used to. I almost didn't check in at all this morning. I guess I should have said the use of solder and not blue painter's tape for wire wrap is a good example for others?

Yea, I want to choke the last owner of my Trailblazer because of that. Never fear though, that has been corrected.

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[barron03]

Nice Job

 

[Boricua SS]

great work man... all the more reason to be greatful that i came to this site... knowledgeable people enabling us to resolve our own issues....

 

[djthumper]

Nice job!

 

[Mark20]

Good detective work & repair!

My old boss was complaining every time he filled his car he smelled gas finally after a lunch out he stopped at a gas station and while we watched under the car he filled it. Yeah gas was coming out. He brought it a mechanic, verdict: squirrel ate the rubber gas hose from filler neck to tank.

 

[fadyasha]

Excellent job!

 

[Fire06]

Nice fix

 

[JazzDad]

Thanks, but the discovery was dumb luck. I do have some experience with mice, however:

What is the stupidest design error? - Chevy HHR Network

I hates meeces to pieces! - Chevy HHR Network

 

[navigator]

I worked at a tire shop when I was in HS and college, I changed the oil for a guy one time who had the old round breather/air filter and it was full of dog food that a squirrel had stolen and hidden in there.

 

[northcreek]

I thought I had solved the mouse problem in my pole barn by using Assault poison which looks like little green donuts.I knew they were working because they kept disappearing and the damage had stopped.
I don't know what happened to the mice but,I found a gazillion little green donuts in the airbox of my previous suv durring a filter change.
At work a mouse chewed through a wire and took out a 200MW generator but,he got fried with 250vdc in the process.
I know rodents have to constantly chew but,why wire?? I too hate MEECES....just sayin'...Mike.

 

[Mark20]

A mouse took out the transformer for one place I worked. That eerie silence for a moment just before every cries ARRRRGH!

 

[91RS]

Yep, I'm impressed. The dealer would refuse for liability reasons to repair a connector like that, and insisted on installing a new wiring harness for $900 parts and $2850 in labor. The OS volunteers would have continued to insist it was the ignition switch.

We gotta start adding "rodent damage?" to the troubleshooting checklist.

Not true at all, we fix things like that all the time.

 

[The_Roadie]

Not true at all, we fix things like that all the time.

Sorry about the dealer-bashing. It is unfair to honorable ones.

 

[djthumper]

Sorry about the dealer-bashing. It is unfair to honorable ones.

So we have two or three honorable ones here?