I don't know how many layers there is to this onion but I am getting kind of tired of it.
It started doing the start and then die when I let go of the key thing again like it was a year ago. I think on it and decide to bypass the ballast resister. It is a ceramic one, maybe it has a intermittent open so sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Started great for a week with no resistor. I didn't drive it much because the internet seemed 75/25 in favor of a resistor being required. Nobody in town had a new one so I ordered one and I got it Sunday when we visited my MIL (it was a few days faster to have it shipped to her than to my house)
It was super nice Monday, I couldn't help myself and drove it to work. Started/ran great, I was feeling really good about it.
I was going to go pick up my son yesterday after school with it I go to start it and it starts... but the starter stays running. WTH?
Jump in the other truck to pick up my kid and circle back to it. I unhook the starter signal wire from the relay, turn the key on to check for power in the signal wire and it tries to start in gear as I am standing beside the truck reaching in thru the window. It isn't caring about the clutch switch. I kick it out of gear and try it again it starts right off again and the starter won't disengage. I didn't even go to the start position.
We are drastically losing ground here...
I poke around, the starter has a relay on it like a newer truck. I basically just use the trucks original starter relay to trigger the starter and the "start" positions for the coil and DS module. The wire to the starter that engages it is getting power and that is the only place it could be getting it from.
Swap in my spare DS module and all is right again. It must have been backfeeding the "start" circuit" with "run" power and powering the signal wire to the starter on its own.
So was the module screwing up on its own and the resistor was making it worse? Or did the lack of a resister kill the module?
I really can't wait to get all this of this behind me. Now that I don't have a spare DS module my loyalty towards it is fading fast in light of the fact that my EFI can handle all that on its own and will basically eliminate the presence of water compromising connectors in my ignition system.
