rev up your engines, customer just towed me this
Ram these stupid semi keyless remote dumbest system ever vehicle won't start
so what are we gonna do well let's start by turning the key and see what happens
stick the key in, well the lights come on so at least we turn the key off turn the
key on its power there but when we turn the key nothing, dead as a door nail, so
with the key on let's turn the headlights on go outside see what
happens well the headlights are coming on so there's power going through the
system but you never know how much power the battery has so let's open hood and
check it typical dodge the hood won't even stay up they make them like such
pieces of junk so we need a stick so test the battery, one tester on here
and one tester on there and since it says right here 790 cold cranking amps we'll
check that it's in the vehicle battery top post regular cold cranking and we'll
put it on 790 and we push start we'll see what it says
state of houses not that great it says it needs a recharge but then it's gonna
be watch not start it needs recharging but it's got enough should crank the
engines not doing anything so something's wrong between the battery
and the ignition switch going to the starter odds are it's this
system there's such pieces of crap I'd know it's Chrysler has enough problems
building cars that is to add this stuff on to it to make it another level of
stuff that breaks on them, so I got my fancy scan tool and pray it finds something
wrong with the system with a code so we don't have to check absolutely
everything on this pile of junk so I'll plug it in under the dash and pray at
least around the vehicle now you can see if it's chosen anything wrong typical
Dodge that already shows that there are eight faults in the powertrain control
module we'll see what codes exist there in the PCM whole bunch of them still under
one misfire evap purge that's not it that's not it brake pressure sensor
incompatible implausible oil pressure out of range, none of those are really starting
problems the central gateway has two faults let's check that yeah
those really aren't gonna be why it's not starting either so I'm gonna try
trick I'm gonna erase all the codes this machine can erase all the codes on it
see if that's gonna help at all sometimes strangely enough it does now
they're all erased then I'm gonna try another trick we're gonna remove the
battery terminals one and the other then what to remove we're gonna touch
them together to reset everything drying everything then leave them off for about
five minutes that way I can reset everything back to factory sightings to
some extent sometimes it'll start right up then let's see all right we'll put
them back on plus the negative tighten up the positive that's nice and tight
now let's see what happens well sad but true stupid thing still isn't gonna
start so we know we turn the key on we're hitting power I'm gonna Hot wire
the starter and see if it will start then that's pretty easy on that you get on the
driver's side crawl under the starter and somebody's already gotten the wire
nicked here so you can check it we will put a jumper cable right here on the
starter line then reach under here and fish the line up got your truck it's way
up in the air and I'm not 80 feet tall here so bear with me as I grab the
stupid thing there's the wire now if we put it on a positive cable it should
make the starter at least turn over nothing probably a bad start and here's
a good test look this up so now it's connected there you get a big hammer go
back under the vehicle I gave it a few whacks well it's not starting but that
doesn't mean it's not the problem we didn't get lucky on this a lot of times
the start is still have some life left you can hit it and with power going to it
the stupid thing will at least start to crank over in this case it's not even
doing that so we're gonna have to pull the starter off and then check it in the
air to see if it works at all so I'll take the battery terminal off so we
don't shorten everything off when we remove the starter then crawl back under then
unbolt the starter and take the power lines off yeah and off comes the starter,
and here's dodge for you, this tiny little starter for this huge Hemi engine and I
can smell it it's burnout I don't even have to test
it's hot now smells just burnout cheap start around a
big engine and here's a replacement tiny starter that's all they had to fit on a
stupid thing at least locally if you really want to do a better job you could
try to find a race and starter that's a lot better than this piece of junk but
this is just the guy's work truck so I'm just putting the same thing back on, so it
just slides back in the hole and you put the two
bolts in the bottom and the top, get them on
nice and tight and don't forget to do the top one too, there are two them hold
on, then you get the big power cable and put it on and put the nut on top of it
then tighten it up, and then get the starter over here and it just plugs
right on there snaps right on nice and tight uh don't forget to put the battery
cable back on I had put it on nice and tight there we go
then let's pray it didn't short the computer out even the computer on this
thing has to do is start in the car and sometimes I see if the starter shorts
out it can fry the computer so let's break didn't nothing as you can see when
I scanned it has a bunch of other things wrong but typical Dodge he wants this
thing to start now it's starting I'm stopping right there
now you know what to do on your Dodge truck or any other vehicle doesn't start
check it step by step always be logical, so if you never want to miss another one of
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