Originally Posted By: crazyoildude
He is not great with fixing cars he is ok but says his friend is pretty good, my thinking is if it's not the alternator it may be the ecm i told him i believe its on the drivers side but im hoping its the alternator. Im pretty sure if he even finds a good ecm it has to be programmed and he will have to take it somewhere for that anyway. He did say the wires that plug into the back looked a little corroded so who knows he is far away.
Tell him to watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CImyX5KuGvQ and there are others similar to this about fixing that alternator, tell him to check the brushes, I really doubt is the PCM, and you can use a non reprogrammed PCM in the van as long as " his van has no factory immobilizer and the replacement neither" needless to say that the used PCM should come from a van with identical equipment and that if he has to smog the van for registration it will come up. The PCM is sandwich between the battery and the body, the battery has to come off and the fuse box loosened the 2 10mm bolts and hinged back then 3 10mm bolts hold the PCM in place, two in the top and one in the bottom, most of the time one or more rust inside the casing and shear off, Mopar sell them in a bag of 3 but if you ask they will sell you a single one, the issue then is to drive the bolts out of the PCM without damaging the case. Again I doubt is the PCM.
He is not great with fixing cars he is ok but says his friend is pretty good, my thinking is if it's not the alternator it may be the ecm i told him i believe its on the drivers side but im hoping its the alternator. Im pretty sure if he even finds a good ecm it has to be programmed and he will have to take it somewhere for that anyway. He did say the wires that plug into the back looked a little corroded so who knows he is far away.
Tell him to watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CImyX5KuGvQ and there are others similar to this about fixing that alternator, tell him to check the brushes, I really doubt is the PCM, and you can use a non reprogrammed PCM in the van as long as " his van has no factory immobilizer and the replacement neither" needless to say that the used PCM should come from a van with identical equipment and that if he has to smog the van for registration it will come up. The PCM is sandwich between the battery and the body, the battery has to come off and the fuse box loosened the 2 10mm bolts and hinged back then 3 10mm bolts hold the PCM in place, two in the top and one in the bottom, most of the time one or more rust inside the casing and shear off, Mopar sell them in a bag of 3 but if you ask they will sell you a single one, the issue then is to drive the bolts out of the PCM without damaging the case. Again I doubt is the PCM.
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