Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
Some call the PTCM the "engine management module" ,but I understand that they are around $1600.
And anyone who talks of "a short in the wiring" is a fool. The only SHORT that there could be, would be one caused by a rodent eating the insulation off wires - which DOES happen. If that is your problem, well, let's just hope not....
(Those who speak of "shorts" in wiring or electronics are demonstrating a total lack of expertise in electronics - to such people, any problem, particularly intermittent problems, are "shorts".)
What got your shorts in a knot?
I am afraid that shorts occur quite often, I take shorts as meaning a current flows through a circuit where it should not due to some mechanical or electrical part failure.
Anyone who has caused a fuse to blow has had a short.
Anyone who has had an electric shock has caused a short.
That's my short description of a short.