Sunday, December 14th, 2025 AT 10:35 AM
Code 43 issue. After several months of failing to resolve this issue, recently came across info that resulted in a discovery as to the actual cause of this issue. In need to probe the wires at the ECM connection in order to check for a possible short to power of the actual Knock Sensor wire. It strongly suggest that the knock sensor wire is getting a power spike from another source only while the engine is running. Key off test indicate normal function of the knock sensor functions, but when the engine is actually running the circuit is actually spiking in excess of 6.875 volts. This is the problem for the code 43 light staying on, the ECM relates this to a "DETONATION KNOCK". This means one of two things, A short to power in the wire circuit or faulty mem-cal. So I need to which connector on the ECM module holds the Knock sensor wire. I need to conduct a continuity on this circuit and see if I can determine which other wire might also be connect to this circuit. If I can not find the source of the fault this way then I will cut the knock sensor loose close to the main wire connector and add a new wire directly to the knock sensor and retest the results to see if this removes the power spike to the knock sensor circuit. I need to know which connector and which pin and the wire color on that connector. Thanks!





