Just put a junk yard motor out of a 2000 in and.

Tiny
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Just put a junk yard motor out of a 2000 in and it runs fine for a couple seconds and shuts down starts right back up shuts right back down. No codes no security light any ideas
Friday, February 8th, 2013 AT 5:12 PM

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Tiny
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Usually when you swap motors, you get the computer from the donor vehicle and use that computer. I don't know if the 98 and 00 use the same computer. Can you communicate with your computer?
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Friday, February 8th, 2013 AT 5:58 PM

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