Thank you Eric, been watching a lot of you vids trying to learn the scope. Learning from ya love your low key style. I have a Mig Sig and a old Modis on a budget Scale. Enjoying your tactics , when your by yourself working you have greater concentration. I enjoy working by myself, on my own cars, its a well needed ZEN time. Congratulations on your 1K !!
Thank you! yes, working alone is more zen time. In a working garage, the fast pace kills a lot of the enjoyment of just making a motor run. Now that I work alone 1 car at a time, I'll pass on an easy chance for an impact sometimes just to hear and feel the clicks. Sometimes, the same goes for the scope. Ohming an injector is not always 100% , but when all 4 are 1.3ohm and so is the new one, that meter is telling you something. In retrospect, it was fortunate I did not have any pinout to go by. With a scope, you would be either chasing your tail, making conclusions on why the ecm is bad, or decide the intake has to come off anyway. In this case, grabbing the meter and going in was the right and lucky call. Can't say I believed 1 loose connector was its only issue while I was putting it back together. A win is a win, though, plus it saved 155 for an injector! Take care, and thanks for sticking around! Plenty lined up and coming, it is hard dragging cars through this wintery mess but just got Erin's Charger in today. Putting new lower control arms and balljoints in it. Someone hit the door and fender over the holidays also. No big damage but we found both in A+ condition, same color and an hour away. I was supposed to go get them Sat, but on Friday they called and said when they had it on the loader, the loader slid down the bank and totaled the A+ body parts I was after. Oh well, those things we can't change are best left forgotten. Not having to paint it in this cold would have been sweet but the search continues!
Congratulations Eric👍. I've learned alot from you and I never miss a video. There is something likable about you. Maybe it's the beard and your soothing voice😂 We wish you continued success with your channel. Cheers
@MarcBchannel Thank you for all the kindness! I really enjoy making the vids to share, it really does take up the gap of not having anyone physically "hangin" around like the old days. I never thought I'd have a tripod in the garage, but even that is teaching me to edit, slowly but steadily! Stay safe n warm, thanks again!
Congratulations on the 1.2k subscribers 🎉. When you started disabling the injectors with the scanner, I thought this will be simple.... Strange that one open circuit effected both injectors
@chrisingram7277 Thanks Chris! Ya, that was weird. They must really not want you to drive with 1 bad injector and disable 2. With that shared blue wire , I'm betting if #2 fails, #3 quits also. It moved worse than limp mode, so it would not be ignored for long lol. Thanks again!
Congratulations on the subs. Here is my feedback, seeing that this is a GDI engine, there should be an injector driver where you could have used an amp clamp for the injector signal. On the ECU, we would normally see a low and high signal coming off these boxes that go to a driver to step up the current to the injectors. The voltage may be 70v or higher. Get your hands on one of the rotkee noise clamps with a sync. You can try to see if the injector is opening. Yeah, the fuel trim was a clue. Probably, if you had gone into OBD2, you may have seen the misfire counters. Another way to diagnose these engines is through the fuel rail sensor. If it was misfires to lack of fuel, the one closer to the HPP would have the lower misfire counters. These are some tricks that I picked up on these systems. Thanks again
@DJ-tn7vj Thank you! Thanks for the tips also, I heard about the higher voltage to get them opening but nothing further than that. Also not familiar with their wiring colors enough to stab around. That's why I figured make my own coming out but ya really, I would have needed the monthly Alldata to feel comfortable going any further towards the ecu. Those descriptions and operations are a necessity for me on uncharted water. I did try mode 6 for the counters , it was saying none. I also noticed the coil kill did not function when it was missing, only the injector kill worked. With #4 plugged back in, all the coil and injector kill functions work. That made me a bit suspicious but in the end I'm glad it was what it was. Next buddy that shows up with a gdi injector in his hand better have the $20 for alldata, I know that much lol. Thanks for all the tips and sticking around!
@Backalleydiagnostics yes that one. Or make one out of knock sensor and compare it. Strap it to the rail and see if you can sync it to identify when the injector fires
Congratulations on 1K subscribers!
Thank you Eric, been watching a lot of you vids trying to learn the scope. Learning from ya love your low key style. I have a Mig Sig and a old Modis on a budget Scale. Enjoying your tactics , when your by yourself working you have greater concentration. I enjoy working by myself, on my own cars, its a well needed ZEN time. Congratulations on your 1K !!
Thank you! yes, working alone is more zen time. In a working garage, the fast pace kills a lot of the enjoyment of just making a motor run. Now that I work alone 1 car at a time, I'll pass on an easy chance for an impact sometimes just to hear and feel the clicks. Sometimes, the same goes for the scope. Ohming an injector is not always 100% , but when all 4 are 1.3ohm and so is the new one, that meter is telling you something. In retrospect, it was fortunate I did not have any pinout to go by. With a scope, you would be either chasing your tail, making conclusions on why the ecm is bad, or decide the intake has to come off anyway. In this case, grabbing the meter and going in was the right and lucky call. Can't say I believed 1 loose connector was its only issue while I was putting it back together. A win is a win, though, plus it saved 155 for an injector! Take care, and thanks for sticking around! Plenty lined up and coming, it is hard dragging cars through this wintery mess but just got Erin's Charger in today. Putting new lower control arms and balljoints in it. Someone hit the door and fender over the holidays also. No big damage but we found both in A+ condition, same color and an hour away. I was supposed to go get them Sat, but on Friday they called and said when they had it on the loader, the loader slid down the bank and totaled the A+ body parts I was after. Oh well, those things we can't change are best left forgotten. Not having to paint it in this cold would have been sweet but the search continues!
Good posting, thank you.
Congratulations Eric👍. I've learned alot from you and I never miss a video. There is something likable about you. Maybe it's the beard and your soothing voice😂 We wish you continued success with your channel. Cheers
@MarcBchannel Thank you for all the kindness! I really enjoy making the vids to share, it really does take up the gap of not having anyone physically "hangin" around like the old days. I never thought I'd have a tripod in the garage, but even that is teaching me to edit, slowly but steadily! Stay safe n warm, thanks again!
Congratulations on the 1.2k subscribers 🎉.
When you started disabling the injectors with the scanner, I thought this will be simple.... Strange that one open circuit effected both injectors
@chrisingram7277 Thanks Chris! Ya, that was weird. They must really not want you to drive with 1 bad injector and disable 2. With that shared blue wire , I'm betting if #2 fails, #3 quits also. It moved worse than limp mode, so it would not be ignored for long lol. Thanks again!
Congratulations on the subs.
Here is my feedback, seeing that this is a GDI engine, there should be an injector driver where you could have used an amp clamp for the injector signal. On the ECU, we would normally see a low and high signal coming off these boxes that go to a driver to step up the current to the injectors. The voltage may be 70v or higher. Get your hands on one of the rotkee noise clamps with a sync. You can try to see if the injector is opening. Yeah, the fuel trim was a clue. Probably, if you had gone into OBD2, you may have seen the misfire counters. Another way to diagnose these engines is through the fuel rail sensor. If it was misfires to lack of fuel, the one closer to the HPP would have the lower misfire counters. These are some tricks that I picked up on these systems. Thanks again
@DJ-tn7vj Thank you! Thanks for the tips also, I heard about the higher voltage to get them opening but nothing further than that. Also not familiar with their wiring colors enough to stab around. That's why I figured make my own coming out but ya really, I would have needed the monthly Alldata to feel comfortable going any further towards the ecu. Those descriptions and operations are a necessity for me on uncharted water. I did try mode 6 for the counters , it was saying none. I also noticed the coil kill did not function when it was missing, only the injector kill worked. With #4 plugged back in, all the coil and injector kill functions work. That made me a bit suspicious but in the end I'm glad it was what it was. Next buddy that shows up with a gdi injector in his hand better have the $20 for alldata, I know that much lol. Thanks for all the tips and sticking around!
@DJ-tn7vj on the noise clamp, do you mean the rotkee vs vibration clamp? I hope you do, the price is pretty sweet and was on my wish list. Thanks!
@Backalleydiagnostics yes that one. Or make one out of knock sensor and compare it. Strap it to the rail and see if you can sync it to identify when the injector fires