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Electrical gremlins after engine rebuild

callahanjob

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Due to a teenager driving the car with no oil until it stopped moving, I had to pull the motor on my fiances 04 GTP and rebuild it. Crank, one connecting rod, all new bearings, rings, gaskets, seals whole shebang. The rebuild is done, motor back in and it starts/idles fine, but that's as good as it gets. The DIC (mileage/trip/etc) is dead, no power steering -new pump and fluid full, moves but absolutely no acceleration like its choking out (revs fine in park/neutral), HVAC is intermittent, Brake warning light, trac control and ABS lights all on. NO CEL.

New battery, have triple checked grounds and went as far as cleaning body and engine points to near reflective shiny and putting new terminals on all the ground wires, engine to body to battery all check good with meter, ive metered every fuse and checked every relay. I do not know wtf or if im just dumb and theres a plug hiding somewhere I cant easily see when I routed the harness back in or maybe something is up with the under hood fuse box itself.
 


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The brake warning light usually means there is low fluid. The ABS/trac control light could be caused by a wheel bearing or a bad harness from it. Pretty common.

Did you go through the proccedure to bleed the power steering system? These cars can be finiky to get bled.

Are all of the connections to the various engine controls good and tight? MAF, MAP, EGR, temp sensor, etc... Also, I know this sounds dumb but double check the plug wire routing and make sure they are on the correct cylinders. These engines will actually run with crossed plug wires.
 
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