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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 06/07/18> One step forward, three steps back…
That right there is the reason I drive older beaters. The interconnectedness (I know that's not a word but you get it anyway) of the systems just make diagnosis nearly impossible. It is also the reason that I buy a service manual at the same time I buy a motorcycle. Every time. I have a few left but generally I sell them with the bike.
I do have a 1949 full set for Indian Chief. I never owned one but a friend that worked for Indian gave it to me. There are many chapters in the service manual for the Connie that are longer than the whole thing for the Indian. Times have changed.
Good luck with your van. It's an aggravating thing to deal with.
One only has to look at Cuba to know that we use to make vehicles that could last as daily drivers for well over sixty years, as most of the cars there are from the early to mid fifties. These vehicles with computers are nothing more than a way to insure that people will have to continue to buy new vehicles.
Between business and government they have created the perfect mouse trap. Government won't issue a license to the vehicle if it doesn't pass the
"emissions test" , the computers constantly cause problems that the average person has no way of determining and even the mechanics that are certified have problems figuring them out.
By making it where you can't do it, and when the vehicle is out of warranty it is so expensive for the dealership repairs, people just buy a new one. I drive by so many junk yards when I work and see what appear to be perfectly fine looking cars and trucks that have been scrapped, primarily because of all the electronics.
The hottest place on a car and truck is the engine compartment , computers don't like heat, so where do they put the computers? In the engine compartment, is where. Sounds like the perfect plan to insure failures.
Thanks for the good luck wishes, I sure need them on getting this resolved.
I live in an area that doesn't have emissions tests. Yuma County is so big and so sparsely populated that it doesn't pop the meter on the government emissions requirements. It's not even close.
It's funny. The computers on motorcycles last pretty well, and there is no doubt it's because of air flow and general cooling. You hear about a failure now and again, but really not much.
We have had Dodge vans for a while now and it is a pretty common occurrence on the vans, the stick the computer inside the front driver's side fender behind the plastic wheel well and then mount it up against the inside portion of the fender so the back of the computer is up against the engine compartment. No air circulation in the area for sure.
It had passed the emissions test, so that is good, even though I think that is all a bunch of BS.