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Old 01-16-2006 | 06:20 PM
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ok so my mom drove a 1990 chryster new yorker with the 3.3 liter v-6 the car would stall anytime it felt like it seemed driving idling parked ll gears all speeds all temperatures this got to be very annoying after a while, hooked up all the scanners i could to pull streaming data and my sensors and actuators were all fine, searched for an intermittent failure of cam or crank sensor ande they were fine, let the car run for four hours and it didn't stall once!!!
got in the car to copy some paperwork, got out touched the steering wheel and it died.. turns out my mom used to grab the steering wheel in the exact same spot everytime she got out and now everytime you touch the top left of the wheel it moves a little bit and stalls the car! i don't have shopkey until tomorrow so i was wondering if anyone knew offhand what in the steering wheel would cause this car to stall out.
this car is ne of the crazy computerized ones, everything is digital so i figure it could be anything.
 
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Old 01-16-2006 | 10:33 PM
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There are ribbon wires/connectors in column
may have loosed A connector/or frayed a wire
 
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Old 01-17-2006 | 07:56 AM
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yea, i am going to slip out of class for a while and go to the resource center where we have shopkey!!
i want to know everything that is going on inside that console by tomm night.
then i just have to find a steering wheel puller and hopefully not set off the airbag, i hate taking those out!!
or maybe i won't even have to take off the wheel? who knows but i will post my shopkey findings and what i do to the car when i see it again, i just gave it
to my cousin, who stalls at least 30 times a day!! hahaha
 
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Old 01-20-2006 | 05:53 PM
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Make sure you DISABLE the air bag prior to removing the steering wheel! It's possible you can be hurt badly otherwise.
 
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Old 01-22-2006 | 02:51 AM
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yea, so my uber expensive car school can not even keep shopkey up and running!! anyway, so my cousin came back up anyway and i stripped the bottom and top off the steering wheel and test drive the car around doing everything to make it stall which did not work...
then i parked it and did the official chrysler wiggle test and after slamming the wheel up in tilt position i found the loose connection, no damage no nothing, just a loose spade connector, the red one going into the ignition lock.. i would tell you what it is but shopkey is apparenly a very hard program to run!!

anyway, just thought this might help someone, as these cars have crazy hard to diagnose electrical problems.. especially with a main harness running straight under battery corrosion land and all kinds of sensors to go bad..
 



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