1995 Toyota 4Runner Hooked up jumper cables backwards

Tiny
HELLFIRE54Z
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  • 1995 TOYOTA 4RUNNER
  • 6 CYL
  • 4WD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 14,000 MILES
So I had a momentary lapse of common sense and hooked my jumper cables up backwards (I've jump started cars dozens of times I was just in a rush) by the time I noticed it I went to pull the cables off and sparks flew and the battery was toast (almost melted the positive post) so I replaced the battery and nothing, no lights no power at all. Upon some inspecting I found the main 80a fuselink was fried along with a couple 15a fuses. So I replaced those and now I have power but the car won't start, I turn the key and nothing happens. I really can't afford to bring it to the shop. Anyone have this happen to them before. I think it's either the starter motor or the ECM computer. Any help would be really awesome!

Also how can I test the ECM to see if that's the problem Cuz they're expensive and I really don't want to replace it if that's not the issue
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 AT 11:05 PM

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Tiny
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Hi three,

You will first need to run a diatonic scan to see if this shows up any further problems, the testing of the ECU is a specialist electronics job, I feel that you may have fried the ECU, do the scan first to see what that shows, if it wont scan then I would be fairly sure the ECU is destroyed, start here.

Mark (mhpautos)
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009 AT 11:14 PM

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