Elecrical gremlins...Dont get the van wet!

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So, One of the reasons I scored a free 97 all trac sc is because it had been sitting in my garage for a year in a not running condition. It would run great untiil it got wet, IE rain or snow. Even the carwash would instantly kill it. Well after a year of probing every circuit in the electrical I had decided the ECU was at fault. I couldn't at the time afford a $700 ECU so I let it sit. Come the day the van got transferred over to me, I sent it to the shop to verify my concerns. Turns out i was right but they were going to ding me for almost $600 in just diagnosis with a $90 used ECU that I found for them.(I understand these are a PITA to work on but that is still too much for me). Luckily for me (and i dont feel bad about it, I would if they had charged me a reasonable fee for diagnosis) the secretary accidentally hit $376 instead of $736. I went back out of kindness and told them about the mistake. I gave them an extra $100 and they were happy.
I have to say though, be aware of the shops, they put a huge hole in my exhaust so they could inspect the cat with a camera and did a half rear job on the welding up the hole on my brand new cat so im throwing second o2 codes. They also didnt fix two of the other issues i was having that i had asked them to, fixing a broken vaccum line off the intake and re hanging the rear half of my exhaust so it wasn't banging against my rear floor.