Randy Whistler
Living the dream! I'm just not sure who's dream
I think I've got it, thanks to everyone here offering help and suggestions!!! I jacked up my back last weekend, so have had to wait until this weekend to get to it.
Once I got back under the hood, I took a look at the ground strap Paul mentioned above - the one from the back of the block to the firewall. First, whomever designed that needs to be shot, but that's a different discussion. It took all of about half a second to notice that the ground strap had totally rotted off about 1/2" underneath the firewall bolt! After running all over town trying to find the parts I needed to splice in a replacement wire, it took about 15 minutes to put it back together.
Doing a test drive, I noticed 2 problems I had previously were no longer - the security light did not come on, no matter what power load was on, and the airbag light that would go on/off now stayed on, as it should(remember, no relay in the box for the airbags). It did flag up a bank 1/2 too lean upon start up, but that cleared up pretty quickly, and since the aforementioned ground strap connects to the engine block, that seemed to be reasonable to me.
So, it appears that, at least until the next problem, this one is solved!!! Thank you so much to everyone who helped guide me to find this issue!! I hope I can repay the favor along the way!
Once I got back under the hood, I took a look at the ground strap Paul mentioned above - the one from the back of the block to the firewall. First, whomever designed that needs to be shot, but that's a different discussion. It took all of about half a second to notice that the ground strap had totally rotted off about 1/2" underneath the firewall bolt! After running all over town trying to find the parts I needed to splice in a replacement wire, it took about 15 minutes to put it back together.
Doing a test drive, I noticed 2 problems I had previously were no longer - the security light did not come on, no matter what power load was on, and the airbag light that would go on/off now stayed on, as it should(remember, no relay in the box for the airbags). It did flag up a bank 1/2 too lean upon start up, but that cleared up pretty quickly, and since the aforementioned ground strap connects to the engine block, that seemed to be reasonable to me.
So, it appears that, at least until the next problem, this one is solved!!! Thank you so much to everyone who helped guide me to find this issue!! I hope I can repay the favor along the way!