Fixed it! And it was a very very dumb fix. Unplugged all my PCM connectors and cleaned everything with electronics cleaner and the truck started right up. I'm gonna guess a bad connection was preventing that ground from occurring. So simple, yet so frustrating!
Well...the freshly charged battery did nothing, which I'm not surprised about. I did bench test the relay and it clicks so seems to be functioning properly. I'm thinking whatever I'm seeing on Pin 2 is likely not a good enough ground, and grounding it separate of the PCM would likely fix my...
Thanks again, and Happy Thanksgiving! I did a little bit more diagnostic work with the multimeter and I feel like my truck should be starting. I'm in the process of charging the battery as that was reading low and maybe that will miraculously fix it. But here's what I found. I also attached my...
Thanks! This is my first time doing any real electrical diagnostic work, so apologies if my lingo isn't 100%. So the PCM sends a signal to send 12V to pin 1 AND closes some other internal relay to ground pin 2? That seems unnecessary and redundant. So you just connected to yellow wire to a...
Did you ever get this figured out? I've got a 2012 F150 showing the same behavior. Intermittent start issues, but the truck always starts if I jump the starter relay pins. Forscan seems to show all of the relevant BCM PID's as ready to start. On the PCM side I get the same SMC_MON "OFF" when...
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