Newbie sayin hello and a question
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From: Thornton, CO
Newbie sayin hello and a question
Hi,
This is my first post but I've been checkin out the forum for a while now, real nice place you've got here. I'll probably have more questions than answers for a while so bear with me. I've got a 2001 1500 SLT, 318, 5 spd, 80k miles. It's the second Ram I've owned, I bought a 97 new and owned it for 4 years, sold it and really missed it and finally got back to getting another.
Now to my question. Driving home last night I was almost home when all my gauges went dead, all the warning lights came on and I got a "no bus" error on the odometer. After about a mile everything came back on and everything was fine this morning on the way to work. The last mile of my drive is on a dirt road that is fairly rough so I don't know if I may have a loose connection, I checked when I got home and everything seemed tight. I also noticed the odometer just changed to 82,500 when everything went dead and it all came back when the odometer hit 82,501. A long shot I know. Thanks for your help
Steve
This is my first post but I've been checkin out the forum for a while now, real nice place you've got here. I'll probably have more questions than answers for a while so bear with me. I've got a 2001 1500 SLT, 318, 5 spd, 80k miles. It's the second Ram I've owned, I bought a 97 new and owned it for 4 years, sold it and really missed it and finally got back to getting another.
Now to my question. Driving home last night I was almost home when all my gauges went dead, all the warning lights came on and I got a "no bus" error on the odometer. After about a mile everything came back on and everything was fine this morning on the way to work. The last mile of my drive is on a dirt road that is fairly rough so I don't know if I may have a loose connection, I checked when I got home and everything seemed tight. I also noticed the odometer just changed to 82,500 when everything went dead and it all came back when the odometer hit 82,501. A long shot I know. Thanks for your help
Steve
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RE: Newbie sayin hello and a question
welcome to DF!
with what you describe, i'd look for an bad connection going to your dash, if the pcm died, i'd expect the motor would have died as well. the fact that you were able to keep going tells me you have a bad connection. start with the grounds, look for any connectors under the dash that might look like they were seperated and re-seat them, or just re-seat them anyway.
with what you describe, i'd look for an bad connection going to your dash, if the pcm died, i'd expect the motor would have died as well. the fact that you were able to keep going tells me you have a bad connection. start with the grounds, look for any connectors under the dash that might look like they were seperated and re-seat them, or just re-seat them anyway.
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RE: Newbie sayin hello and a question
I agree with steve, just the read out (no bus) would tell me the connection to the backplain of the insturment cluster is loose, if "bus" means bus work or bus bar that would be the power connection to the insturments.
Darin
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