well I've finally finished putting the car back together after a 9 month teardown.

Anyways I put a different steering column switched tumblers.

the car was an auto is now a stick shift. jumped the safety neutral just to make sure. still no crank.

I put a trigger on the starter and it cranks.

all the lights come on, all the ground are hooked up.


where should I start? what should I start doing to diagnose this.

also I have the vats deleted in the computer but the previous owner had put a resister in the wire to eliminate it. well while crawling around under the dash that resistor broke off. so the connector is just sitting there?

 

that seems like a really good place to start.....

I'm sure someone will chime in here, but I would think the resistor is no longer required.. But a connection would be...

 

VATS reprogrammed in the computer only gives you fuel part of VATS ;
you still have to bypass the starter enable relay for VATS to be fully deleted

Maybe the VATS module was still working ( on the starter component ) and dropping the bypass resistor out has taken out the still being used enable relay?
( if you didn't bypass the relay when you had the delete chip burnt )

 

hey I'm not sure how to use the diagram to bypass the disable relay?

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/tpi/...ay-bypass.html