I replaced crank shaft sensor and camshaft sensor, plugs, wires a lot has been replaced on this van it did fine for about a month now it won't start at all It made a pop sound and backfired and now won't start at all. Please help this is my only way of getting around and i need it fixed. Thank You Karen

 

sounds like it could be your timing chain with the backfire issue

 

I bought this 2003 Grand Caravan EL in April 2012 with 140K on it. It was a former rental + 2 owners.
About a month later it stalled pulling out of my garage. It did this twice in 3 weeks. Both time the fuel gauge was at 1/4 full. I figured that because my driveway is on a steep incline, maybe the float on the sending unit was bad. So we resolved to never let the gas get down below 1/3.
It ran fine and got us through our summer trips without incident . Then a few weeks ago it began to stall while driving at uneven intervals and conditions. My observations where : it stalled when I braked hard, if on a rough road, moving slowly on an incline and when I let the hood drop closed. Ready?... Two wires under the engine were shorting out on the chassis... The positive battery cable leads down past the ECM and down under the engine where it marries up to the main harness. The harness had chaffed on a support strut until two wires had worn through, thus causing this maddening stall out thing . I have read a dozen blogs and forums, all sighting the same problems and causes and fixes,, crank sensors, fuel pumps & modules. And the problems still go on. please look into this before you spend your hard earned cash needlessly. I hope I have helped someone here. Marc.

 

I had this problem for a long time. When the van would start none of the gauges would move and it would quit. Had many mechanics tell me they had no idea what it was because they couldn't duplicate it. Found out that this particular year they had bad solders on the back of the instrument panel. I re-soldered some of them and it helped but then I was told that there were also problems with the body control module (BCM). I got one off of ebay and changed it. It cost me about $60 for the part but the dealer had to recalibrate it and that cost me $180...but they also wanted $900 to fix it. So try the re-solder option first (http://www.flickr.com/photos/landar/...th/3474558714/), then do the BCM

 

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