Question : ses light pops on loses power??

[60degreebird]

hey i have a 94 firebird sfi 3.4 and the ses light will randomly pop on and it loses power any ideas?? i cant find anyone to read a obd1 code??? will the paperclip trick work on this year?? i even bought a scaner thats suposed to flash the light to tell codes and it wont flash anything??? plz help

[robertisaar]

the paperclip method will not work in this situation. and the "scanner" you bought does exactly that: it jumps two pins together, just like a paperclip.

[60degreebird]

thats what i thought it did wasnt sure so i bought it anyway lol thnx tho i dnt know what to do now?? lol

[robertisaar]

if there aren't any autozones/advance/napas nearby to see if they can read it, you may need to buy/make an ALDL cable and read it youself, using a laptop.

[60degreebird]

if there aren't any autozones/advance/napas nearby to see if they can read it, you may need to buy/make an ALDL cable and read it youself, using a laptop.

how do u do that??

[robertisaar]

download tunerpro RT, hook the cable up to the ALDL connector near the steering wheel, read away. it will show a LOT of things: RPM/MPH/fueling trim/spark advance/trouble codes/etc

[60degreebird]

download tunerpro RT, hook the cable up to the ALDL connector near the steering wheel, read away. it will show a LOT of things: RPM/MPH/fueling trim/spark advance/trouble codes/etc

kewl thnx=]

[60dgrzbelow0]

This place has some interesting images of ALDL Cables... some instructions on the use of a Laptop and Diagnostic Software; some very useful links and information and of course they sell the cables, too:

http://aldlcable.com/

[LeftVentricle]

Not an F-body, but on my Celebrity, I had the same symptom, and it was the knock sensor.

[60degreebird]

damm i hope not thats expinsive guess lol

[LeftVentricle]

Not really. For my car, the part was less than $50, and took about ten minutes to replace. I haven't done one on a V6 F-body, so I don't know how long it would take or what the part costs.

[60degreebird]

Not an F-body, but on my Celebrity, I had the same symptom, and it was the knock sensor.

dude youre the shit it fixed it thnx got my power back thnx to everyone