smoke from left front fender

[stoker280]

I hope some one can help me out, this morning i ran my shelby for about 15 min. letting it warm up and when i go to get in the front left fender started smoking and the motor shut off but made a puff sound. Now I have no power to ignition or radio like switch gone bad please help if some one has seen this before the smoke came from what seems like the pcm box

thanks for the help

[bhazard]

Yea check the ECU out, when we got the shadow the ECU was all toasty inside. I believe the voltage regulator is in there as well.

[tryingbe]

Sounds like one of the fusible link got toasted.

[stoker280]

thanks for the help guys going to look indepth when i get home from work, but that was what i was afraid of those ecu is not cheap lol i guess good reason to get aftermarket one now lol thanks again for the input

[22dodge]

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Originally Posted by stoker280 thanks for the help guys going to look indepth when i get home from work, but that was what i was afraid of those ecu is not cheap lol i guess good reason to get aftermarket one now lol thanks again for the input

now, you have to ask yourself, what caused this to happen. sounds a lot like a dead short somewhere.

[tryingbe]

lol, would happen again if you don't fix the short, lol

[chilort]

In a former career I was an electrical engineer. While earning my degree, a professor told me that most electronic parts run on magic smoke. Once you let the magic smoke out, the part no longer works.

All joking aside, it could be a fuse-able link. It could also be the ecu. What do you run for an air filter? If its a cone, then maybe the heat cycles finally caught up with you. I've got a feeling these ECUs need the little bit of air pulling across them that is provided by the engine running.

Your in the ATL, just like me, and I decided to put a computer fan on my ecu when I changed the airbox setup. It just gets too hot and humid for too long here. Combine that with our terrible traffic, and over time, somethings gotta go.

[stoker280]

hey guys thanks for all the help and to tell you it was a fusible link under all the mess they call the wiring harness i found it and now trying to diagnose why it blew one of the links, the wire that runs from the main power to a block on the fender then to the pcm 1 wire through the fire wall and 2 out to engine, with all that said i notice to i have a stinger car charger with spare battery plugged up
not sure if that put to much draw on the circuit, because before i plugged it up everything was fine then this morning was when the problem happend
I hope for the best and will update with further info so no one else has this happen thanks again guys