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Old Apr 10, 2013 | 08:55 PM
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Default 1994 Dodge Dakota has no spark

I have a 1994 Dodge Dakota that will not turn over but not start.
I checked to resistance of the ignition coil both primary and secondary are within range. There are two wires that go to the coil. Green/Yellow Stripe and Grey. The Green/Yellow Stripe is hot with switch on. The Hall Pick up coil and three wires, White/Black stripe, Grey/Blue Stripe, and Orange. None of these wires pulse hot or are continuously hot when cranked or switch on. The Auto Shutdown Relay have four wires, Green/Orange, Green/Yellow, Blue Solid, and Red/White Stripe. The Blue and Red/White wire are both hot when switch is on. Please someone help.
 
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Old Apr 13, 2013 | 07:03 PM
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Old Apr 27, 2013 | 12:59 AM
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Not sure if you resolved this yet or not but I had same problem with mine. Its time consuming but rather easy to fix. You need to check for power on the asd relay with a book (or info from this site) to see what and when its suppose to have power. Mine didn't have any power on 87 (top) when cranking motor. Found it to be bad ground (located in my stereo of all places) there is numerous crappy wire splices dodge did early 90's.. check under fuse panel, windshiel wiper fluid canister, by distributer, and following same wires closer to the computer. I can't remeber exactly what colors came from asd relay but I think it was red/white stripe a green/orange stripe and 2 blues. My problem was on the green/orange stripe I thought but really just ended up being faulty ground which tripped out coil(where the green/orange wire goes to) was advised to run a fusible jumper wire from common (30) to 87 (green/orange wire) to see if it started. Thing fired up after a few on/off keys on ignition (should be able to hear everything "come alive") after a few seconds(took mine anout 10) found faulty wore in dash at sterio and thing runs fine now. Sorry for long winded response and horrible spelling/grammer, I'm writing from my phone :-)
 
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