robmerrill
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I know there have been many posts about this but I just wanted to make sure.
I have 50K miles on my car and it is stock and it always started up right away and I never have any problems with it. I was flushing my power steering fluid and was turing the car on and off. I would turn it on for 5 seconds and let the power steering drain into a bottle and then turining it off and refilling the power steering fluid. I did this 6 times. On the seventh time I turned it on, with the new power steering fluid and let it run for 1 minute and turned off. I was going to flush it one more time and on the eighth time when I turned the key it would not start.
All the lights work(interior/exterior and don't dim when I turn the key). I have 12.5 V to the battery(which is brand new). The Security light in the dash comes but then turns of in 2 seconds but the Check Engine light stay on. The other thing I noticed is that there is a little black box right next to the battey in front that one of the connectors came off? And there is black goo all over the connectors and inside the connectors like something had meleted. I opened the balck box and it was clean inside and nothing seemed to be missing or burnt. I clean the connectors (as much as I could, they are still have goo inside them ) and reconnected the balck box and I hear a clicking sound. What is this black box and why did the connectors have black goo inside them.
Is my problem this black box or the soleniod/starter?
Thanks,
Rob
I have 50K miles on my car and it is stock and it always started up right away and I never have any problems with it. I was flushing my power steering fluid and was turing the car on and off. I would turn it on for 5 seconds and let the power steering drain into a bottle and then turining it off and refilling the power steering fluid. I did this 6 times. On the seventh time I turned it on, with the new power steering fluid and let it run for 1 minute and turned off. I was going to flush it one more time and on the eighth time when I turned the key it would not start.
All the lights work(interior/exterior and don't dim when I turn the key). I have 12.5 V to the battery(which is brand new). The Security light in the dash comes but then turns of in 2 seconds but the Check Engine light stay on. The other thing I noticed is that there is a little black box right next to the battey in front that one of the connectors came off? And there is black goo all over the connectors and inside the connectors like something had meleted. I opened the balck box and it was clean inside and nothing seemed to be missing or burnt. I clean the connectors (as much as I could, they are still have goo inside them ) and reconnected the balck box and I hear a clicking sound. What is this black box and why did the connectors have black goo inside them.
Is my problem this black box or the soleniod/starter?
Thanks,
Rob