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No electricity from injectors, plug wires, fuel pump. Help!

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Hi, and a big hello to everyone(my first post). I hope to be able to help others here in the future too. I recently bought a 1998 Ford Escort SE Wagon. It has a 2.0 SOHC engine. The car turns the engine but would not start. A mechanic two doors down, who has helped me greatly in the past, tested the electricity from the plugs going into the fuel injectors and there was no electricity going into the injectors. There is also no power at the fuel pump and no power coming from the spark plug cables. The battery is brand new and the lights inside the car turn on and you hear the car interior sounds. None of the fuses inside the car or in the engine compartment are blown. No wires seem to be damaged but I can't be sure of all of them. What could keep those three areas from gettting power all at the same time? If it was only one I could think of what to repair or replace but all these three? There may be more areas not getting power but I haven't tested more yet and don't yet think I need more proof it's a compoment that handles many areas of power at a time. You know, like the computer. I don't want to start replacing parts and spending money to find that it isn't the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ........... Jorge
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Try checking the eec power relay. I doubth they moved it between 2nd and 3rd gens, so it should be located behind the center console, near the passengers foot area. It will be a brown relay. Also, try checking the emergency fuel cutout. It's located at the rear of the car (trunk) on the passenger side. You'll see a pull out access panel. I know for sure it will cut out the fuel pump, but not sure about the ignition. It's worth a shot to look at though.

Hope that helps :wink:

Matt 8)
mannydingo said:
I already checked the cutout switch which is located to the left of the fuse compartment in my 98 SE Wagon but the EEC relay I have not looked into nor have even read about. I will see what circuits it affects and see if there's a possibility of a problem there too.
Ok, so they moved the fuel cutout from 2nd to 3rd gen. No prob, at least you checked it. The eec power relay pretty well controls power to everything, as it provides power to the eec which controls everything. It controls spark via the edis module, the fuel pump, and especially injector outputl.

Hope that helps :wink:

Matt 8)
If you know where the EEC module is, they're right there. The EEC and FuelPump relays are located by the passenger side foot well. You'll have to remove a section of trim right be the foot well, closest to the center console to get at it. The EEC relay is brown, and the fuel pump relay is green.

Matt 8)
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