I unhooked the vacume line from the eGR solenoid ,while the car was running, and it didn't change anything. The vacume line going to it didn't have any suction. What purpose does this serve? Can this cause the car not to start? I have a 2.8 MPFI.

 

you wont even notice..., car will run fine, but the egr wont work, and your mpg may suffer a little bit, was the line going from the intake to the soleniod or fro the soleniod to the egr valve? since it didnt have suction, im assuming that its the one doing from the soleniod to the valve, which wont have vaccum until the computer tries to apply vac. to the egr

 

That reminded me of something though. Since, we've emailed before on this no start problem, we've gone through a bunch of stuff. Have you checked to make sure that you have fuel pressure and fuel entering the engine?

Take some Carb cleaner and spray it down the intake while someone tries to start it, make sure that you have the MAF and everything hooked up and spray it just above the air filter. If it starts, it's a fuel problem. IIRC, that's something we havn't been over yet.

 

spraying carb cleaner threw the maf sensor is one fats way to ruin ur maf, if ur gonna do the carb cleaner to do the no fuel test spray directly into the tb

 

Done on MANY cars, never had an issue. Even Ford techs have told me to use Carb Cleaner to clean off the imfamous "Ford dirty MAF Hot Wire." As Long as you spray into the air, not directly onto the film, it will be fine.

 

thats surprising, i know so many ppl who have killed mafs with carb/brake cleaner, and ur supposed to use elcetrical contac cleaner to clean a maf

 

I tested the ICM and it was bad! I haven't hooked everything back yet to see if it will start. I can smell gas when I try to start the engine and I had a bad gas leak at the manifold. I tigntened the line down and it stopped.