HEYYYYY NOWWWWWW !!!!

[bobbyblaze]

Hey now. U know me At first, I thought this site had been around for a while till I started noticing the dates of the posts. WOW. Fresh like a WAWA coffee.

[Gordinho80]

Bobby!!! Yeah man, we're only a couple days old...

[The Roadie]

Trailvoy's new owners haven't managed to mess up old place yet, but the independent spirit of offroaders just cried out for having a lifeboat ready anyway.

Besides, personally I wanted a tiny bit more of the pirate4x4 hard-core culture (not a lot, mind you!), and a bit less of the "my check engine light has been on for six months now, what should I do?!?!?" whininess.

[teebes]

and a bit less of the "my check engine light has been on for six months now, what should I do?!?!?" whininess.

Uhhm, wait. Does that mean I have to leave now

[The Roadie]

No, but it means we gotta make sure your junk gets fixed.

[Trail X]

My thermostat code keeps coming back. I'm normally running at about 180*. I just don't have the time to replace it. I even brought it to a mechanic... he turned me DOWN!... he was like "I don't want to get that deep into your engine."... Yeah, thanks for the help you lazy ass.

[teebes]

No, but it means we gotta make sure your junk gets fixed.

Nah.. I just wait for the trails to burp my engine for me

[bobbyblaze]

My thermostat code keeps coming back. I'm normally running at about 180*. I just don't have the time to replace it. I even brought it to a mechanic... he turned me DOWN!... he was like "I don't want to get that deep into your engine."... Yeah, thanks for the help you lazy ass.

Your thermostat runs at 180 ? Mine sits a hair above 210 but I have an OBD2 code scanner that shows live feed while running including the coolant temp. When my dash sensor reads 210+ my scanner is usually around 185*. I believe my scanner.

I'm bringing the scanner to tecore. You can check it against your gagues if you want.

[Trail X]

My thermostat code keeps coming back. I'm normally running at about 180*. I just don't have the time to replace it. I even brought it to a mechanic... he turned me DOWN!... he was like "I don't want to get that deep into your engine."... Yeah, thanks for the help you lazy ass.

Your thermostat runs at 180 ? Mine sits a hair above 210 but I have an OBD2 code scanner that shows live feed while running including the coolant temp. When my dash sensor reads 210+ my scanner is usually around 185*. I believe my scanner.

I'm bringing the scanner to tecore. You can check it against your gagues if you want.

180 is my scanner value. The dumb-gauge shows 210 all the time...

[OregTrailBlazin]

and a bit less of the "my check engine light has been on for six months now, what should I do?!?!?" whininess.

Uhhm, wait. Does that mean I have to leave now

Hahaha.. Mines been on for a while!! Gotta replace the fan clutch

[Philberto]

[/quote]

180 is my scanner value. The dumb-gauge shows 210 all the time...[/quote]


Hey just wondering, has anybody thought about it, or is there some way to make our dumb-gauge a little smarter? Could some tuning be done to fix the "fix" that GM made for apprehensive owners?

[The Roadie]

What's sent to the gauge is a data message from the PCM to the gauge cluster. You can only change that by getting into the operating system of the PCM, which is usually beyond the scope even of a tune. The data's being filtered by a driver-calming algorithm, baked into the code. Watching in real time with a scangauge is what I do to know what's really going on.