Starting the engine without transmission in the vehicle

Tiny
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How to start the engine without a transmission?
Saturday, February 25th, 2017 AT 10:44 PM

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Tiny
STEVE W.
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If it is in the vehicle you need to fool the computer into thinking the transmission is in park to enable the PCM and starting circuit have the engine run. It will throw a bunch of transmission codes but it should run.
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