well as you probably know having a auto ecu in a 5 spd car will cause it to almost stall out when you put the clutch in, add a bad map or other sensor and it should stall out.
fsm has 3 books usually, they are probably refering to the powertrain book, NAJ might be able to help you out with a scan of the diagnostic tree (check volts here if none check ohms here, etc, it will factor out possible causes until you get to the actual problem)
you have been on the board long enough, you should have spare parts laying around, lol.:bash: