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No clue what is going on here. Have a '98 2WD 3.0 with an autobox. Ever since I got it a year and a half ago, it will occasionally decide not to start. Battery is good and the cables are a bit corroded, but not to the point where the whole thing will die once you try and crank it. Everything will just quit and there will be no power on accessory, no power door locks, windows, etc.
Before this, the CEL would not come on, but everything else would on accessory. I would turn the key, but it would just crank and crank and never turn over. Then I would let it sit for a few min and when the CEL would come on the truck would start just fine.
My first attempt at solving this was to clean the cables, because the battery was fine, which helped a bit and got it going again after this first happened a few weeks ago. When that happened I noticed that there was a bunch of brown liquid all over the place on the driver side of the engine bay next to the main fuse box, which I figured was power steering fluid although I have no clue how it got there since the power steering reservoir cap was tight as can be. I cleaned that and then fiddled with this set of hoses (see first pic) and got power again.
So, needless to say, I'm in a bit of a pickle! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hoses that brought back power
Where the liquid was spilled
Power steering reservoir
Before this, the CEL would not come on, but everything else would on accessory. I would turn the key, but it would just crank and crank and never turn over. Then I would let it sit for a few min and when the CEL would come on the truck would start just fine.
My first attempt at solving this was to clean the cables, because the battery was fine, which helped a bit and got it going again after this first happened a few weeks ago. When that happened I noticed that there was a bunch of brown liquid all over the place on the driver side of the engine bay next to the main fuse box, which I figured was power steering fluid although I have no clue how it got there since the power steering reservoir cap was tight as can be. I cleaned that and then fiddled with this set of hoses (see first pic) and got power again.
So, needless to say, I'm in a bit of a pickle! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hoses that brought back power
Where the liquid was spilled
Power steering reservoir
