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1989 Ford Country Squire Won't Start - Engine
Question: 89 LTD Wagon with Big eight cylinder, Radiator went do to some road trash bouncing up and punching small hole.
Engine gat very wet and at first would start, after replaced the radiator the car will not start. Will crank and is getting gas. Put a timing light on one of the spark plug wires and it indicated spark.
sometimes it will hit on a couple of cylinders but will not catch
have removed cap and rotor, high preassure air dried that and any other connection along with those spark pug wires I could find.
showing a code IK7 28 on the clock radio
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Technican: Did it show an improvement after drying the cap rotor and wires? If you gained a couple cylinders after doing this some are still wet. Or the wires are not properly installed on the cap. If you visit autozone.com they have free vehicle repair guides that will give you the firing order as well as information on testing the components of the ignition and fuel system.
Never overlook fuses in these situations.
Owner: I have pulled all the wires one by one and air dried. the Distributor is pretty protected by a rubber boot that covers the whoel thing but I still pulled each wire and air dried everything.
The coild is right up front and I pulled the lead to the Dist cap and it was corroded with white indication of electrolisis. Cleaned that off. wondering if the connectors to the ingnition modual are wet but cannot find the unit.
I figure that htere is water somewhere but cannot think of any other place where or maybe the getting wet sent some bad info to the ecu and it needs to be reset.
Technican: The ignition module should be on the side of the distributor.
Have you used the timing light to make sure the timing is still close? You want to make sure the timing didn't jump.
To reset the ecu (computer, ecm, pcm whichever name you prefer) simply disconnect the negative battery cable for a minute or so.
You can also spray a SML amount of carburetor cleaner down the throttle body. Then try to start the engine. If it starts and stalls the fuel injectors are not firing. Be careful using carb cleaner, follow all safety precautions.
Let me know what you find.
Owner: Thank you Went back to zero and repeated the drying steps using electical connections cleaner on all conections, including each plug wire from the distributor. A patolium jelly like substance on these wires, not sure if it was anti corrosive or what but it is gone now. Very long crank and it started to catch. Belched like a drunk sailor smoking cigars but finnaly caught and the heat from the engine running dryied it out the rest of the way,
Running fine now but still have a code on the digital clock on the dash.
Technican: "Belched like a drunk sailor smoking cigars"
LOL, good one.
Glad you got it running, tough problem to fix. Have you tried disconnecting the battery for a minutute and reconnecting to see if this will reset the clock. Look in your owners manual, if you have one, for instrucions on resetting the clock. If you don't have this informational available I'll see if I can dig something up. Here's How To Get Guaranteed Solutions In Minutes
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