Originally Posted by
onehundred80
I know you saw the relays working but are the contacts clean? Dirty contacts will not complete the circuit if they are too damaged.
The RCM seemed to be the cause of the trouble as noted in other posts.
Somehow I doubt your problem is as complex as you are making it, we can get carried away with our problems and end up not seeing the woods for the trees.
Dave, I couldn't agree with you more!! Especially since the car showed absolutely no signs of a problem prior to this. As far as clean contacts on the RCM are concerned - I'll crack it back open and give them another look, but I sent this in to DJ for a complete rebuild and it looks like he replaced all the relays except the horn relay as they (the 4 other relays) have a darker metal case that the horn relay does - so I know they are different than what I sent in. I would assume that DJ used all new relays, but it's worth a look. Hell, it doesn't cost me a dime to do that. But still, I think it's something simple that I am missing - I mean how often do the PTCMs go tango uniform without a warning in these cars? From what I am reading (and I've done a lot of reading), it's not very often.
What also throws me is that after messing with this problem (way back in May), for no apparent reason, it cranked and fired right up when I was holding the RCM (opened) in my hand - so I KNEW it had to be RCM related - bad board, broken trace, something along those lines and maybe I had bent the board just right to make good contact, but I couldn't get the car to start again no matter how I held/twisted the board - so I sent it to DJ for a real thorough check. He said it worked fine before he rebuilt it and worked fine when he was done - I feel like I am banging my head against a tree trying to figure this out.
Thanks for all the suggestions and walking with me through this - I'll get it figured out or there will be a TON of SRT parts up for sale ;-)
Randy