Steve at the internet cafe

[daveismissing]

[phil_long]

 

[Steve Wood]

That guy has more hair than me and he is stuck in the 19th century!  gotta give him props!  I bet he is happy and he is not on FB whining how miserable his life is!

this is my day so far:


I go out and crank my truck up to go to town and the ABS light is flashing and it won't come out of Park. I deal with that issue appropriately then go get in the last Buick parked in the shop and realize that I have never finished what I was doing to it and the computer, wiring, carpet, etc are all pulled back to make room for the hole I cut in the footwell. I ease it out of the shop and go get in the other one to drive it, instead. Cranks right up and I start backing up. Then the check engine lite starts flickering and it runs like crap. Drove the first one with all the guts hanging out. Guess I will read the paper and work the crossword before I start figuring out what to work on first....Never be bored when stuff like this happens frequently, huh? I have not bought a woman a house lately, but, days like this bring back memories!

[Pyro6]

I think that guy is just pretending to type, he's getting ready to hit on the blond Cheer up Steve, you live out in the middle of nowhere where you can just blow up the cars and trucks that give you a hard time. Around here we get in trouble for that sort of thing

[phil_long]

That guy has more hair than me and he is stuck in the 19th century!  gotta give him props!  I bet he is happy and he is not on FB whining how miserable his life is!

this is my day so far:


I go out and crank my truck up to go to town and the ABS light is flashing and it won't come out of Park. I deal with that issue appropriately then go get in the last Buick parked in the shop and realize that I have never finished what I was doing to it and the computer, wiring, carpet, etc are all pulled back to make room for the hole I cut in the footwell. I ease it out of the shop and go get in the other one to drive it, instead. Cranks right up and I start backing up. Then the check engine lite starts flickering and it runs like crap. Drove the first one with all the guts hanging out. Guess I will read the paper and work the crossword before I start figuring out what to work on first....Never be bored when stuff like this happens frequently, huh? I have not bought a woman a house lately, but, days like this bring back memories!

damn steve.  SES light issue for me today too.  Mine happened in park tho. 

[Steve Wood]

I wiggled the PL board and the flickering light went away so that one is good again for the moment.  I wish someone would figure out how to attach to the ecm engineering port more reliably.  Direct Scan was terrible about it and PowerLogger has its moments too.

It seems when the brake light fuse blows on a Ford, it locks the shifter into park so you cannot drive around with no brake lights.  The blinking ABS seems to be its way of telling you that you ain't going no where.  Fuse is blowing and I have to find out why.  In the meantime, I figured out that I could turn the key to the first click, drop it into neutral and start it there so I can drive it if I want to...but no brake lights.  Looks like I have to find a short after I buy some of those mini blade type fuses

I guess I need to finish up the AFX install on the Buick that is torn apart so I have more options

[Steve Wood]

I think that guy is just pretending to type, he's getting ready to hit on the blond Cheer up Steve, you live out in the middle of nowhere where you can just blow up the cars and trucks that give you a hard time. Around here we get in trouble for that sort of thing

That Prius commercial makes me want to stuff the inside of one with about 500 lbs of some nice high velocity stuff and see what I have that shoots fast enuf to set it off.

[daveismissing]

It seems when the brake light fuse blows on a Ford, it locks the shifter into park so you cannot drive around with no brake lights.

Hmm... tryin' to figure out how the mechanism could do that?

Looks like I have to find a short after I buy some of those mini blade type fuses

Get the self resetting blade breakers

[Steve Wood]

I don't know...it has an electrical interlock system with its own fuse...but, it seems to get triggered with a brake light problem...and I suspect with a few other problems as well...only thing I know is the brake fuse pops when replaced...I have not seen those interrupters around here.  My image would be an arc welder going off...

Need to invent a circuit tester for guys like me with no help...a fuse bladed connector with leads that would connect to a headlight bulb...that way you could set it outside so it could easily be seen while wiggling wires....

[Steve Wood]

maybe I will grind some plastic off each side of the fuse at the top so I can solder a couple of wires on...

[daveismissing]

Gotta solder fast, that fuse plastic is lousy low temperature stuff. Does work tho.

[earlbrown]

Sounds like the brake light circuit powers the brake actuated shifter locking solenoid.

 It might be a mess to fix if you have a body computer and PCBs all over the place instead of simple wiring that's worked since the days of Lucas. (excepting Lucas' stuff, of course)

[$1987 GN$]

Hollywood is like that.

AJ___

[Steve Wood]

Sounds like the brake light circuit powers the brake actuated shifter locking solenoid.

 It might be a mess to fix if you have a body computer and PCBs all over the place instead of simple wiring that's worked since the days of Lucas. (excepting Lucas' stuff, of course)

In my days of working overseas, it is anything but Lucas...

[daveismissing]

Then ford has this thing called a "GEM"  and like our ECM places where it collects water from windshield leaks