ECM on 87 dodge ram 50

Asked by huckelberry Oct 21, 2010 at 06:45 PM about the 1987 Dodge RAM 50 Pickup

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Does the ECM on my 87 ram 50 have diagnostic codes?
If so how do I go about getting the codes?
Any help on this would be appreciated....HUCKELBERRY

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Mike answered 14 years ago

Yeah 81 and up had some sort of diagnostic capabilities. This old system in chryslers they still have embedded into their computers today. What you want to do is click the key to on position three times ( Not start ) and on the third time leave the key on. Watch the check engine light or whatever they called it back then, I forget. It will start flashing two digit codes at you. There will be a 1 second hesitation between digits of the first code, and a two second hesitiation between different codes if there are multiple codes in the computer.

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