Bypass alarm

[Justins87]

Well I just learned that the battery was fully chraged.

 

[Justins87]

Ok so I am still stuck. The truck is still blinking the 16 code with the security dash light. If the engine I put in is the same engine out of the same truck, do i need to install the ECU as well? Or should everything work in my truck?

 

[Justins87]

Still stuck. I do the dash test mode and it looks like it goes through its paces. The shop has hooked up there computer/code reader and there is no communication between anything. I checked with the company I bought the motor from and they said it came out of an automatic. The code that the dash blinks is still a 1 6 and I have gone through my HAYNES book and nothing on how to reset the pcm. What do I need to do or what do I need to check? I am lost and stuck. PLEASE HELP!!!!

 

[Dirtman]

If the truck ran before you had the new motor put in and a shop did it, it should be their responsibility to fix it. Whatever the problem is obviously happened during installation. Something was damaged (wire cut, connector damaged, or not put back properly).

 

[snoranger]

If the truck ran before you had the new motor put in and a shop did it, it should be their responsibility to fix it. Whatever the problem is obviously happened during installation. Something was damaged (wire cut, connector damaged, or not put back properly).

⬆ This.
If it worked before the engine swap, it should work now. I find it hard to believe that you screwed up a cluster or ECM changing a motor... but forgetting a plug or pinching a wire, that sounds logical.

 

[Justins87]

Well you guys here at the ranger station forum have helped out exponentially. So I thank you. The shop that did the swap are saying it's some kind of security issue and the guys at ford want $130 an hour. I dont have that kind of money. I also dont have many resources that i can check up with. I have gone through my HAYNES manual and found nothing. I am stuck literally.

 

[Dirtman]

Yes it is technically a security issue but it is 99.9% related to the shop that did the work messing something up. If you didn’t change the instrument cluster or the PCM then the system itself does not care that you changed the motor. It will matter if while installing that motor a part of the wiring relating to those things was broken. The mechanic could have damaged the PCM plug, broke a connector, broke a ground wire, etc. That should be on him to pay for.

If you bring a truck to a mechanic that was working, he does the work and now its not working, he is responsible even if he has to pay ford for diagnostics.

 

[Justins87]

Thank you and we got it to start and run it was the ground for pcm (computer). So what the installer did was use a jumper wire from the ground on the firewall to go to the ecm plugs and ground the comp. To the firewall better and it fired right up. So once again and again THANK YOU THANK YOU for all your guys info and knowledge on the rangers. I tell anybody and everybody about this website and forum.

 

[Dirtman]

I done told you! Glad it's fixed lol.