Originally Posted by rakoom2002
First off, Unfortunately my car is out of warranty. =-( poop. I don't know if these two issues are related or what, but I think I have an exhaust leak, right in the from of the car, probably where the headers meet the H/X? pipe. I would start my car, and I would hear a weird rattle from the engine, I could smell exhaust, and I could see it coming from the hood. The car would shake as well, like a fairly passive vibrating, I noticed it did it more when the car would be full on gas, like when I just filled it up.
Any who, I was out and about with the girlfriend the other day, it was about 85 degrees out. Car worked fine all day until about 3 hours of being out, we were leaving the local mall, when I went to start my car. It would crank forever, but it wouldn't actually start. I tried to start the SOB about 6 times, and then gave up. We walked to a local store to pass some time. I figured it was overheated or something. We came back about 20 minutes later and it started fine, except, the CEL was on. I tried the car the next day( this morning) and it worked fine, without any CEL on. Any Idea? I figured the exhuast leak might be throwing off the O2 sensors which could screw up the pump and the start...?
What you see coming from the hood could just be steam from rain that got onto the radiator, this gets warm when the radiator heats up and turns to steam. It could be a hose leak, lift the hood and see if it is visible, look for exhaust leaks as well.
I think that some people have found that the solder on some RCM's cracks and they have re-soldered it themselves, do a search on this issue.
There is more than one grounding wire, follow the wires from the battery for the main ones and look at the shop manual for any that are connected to the RCM area. There are others but they are for specific components and should be of no importance for your problems. The main ones come from the battery and are easy to see.