plastic vantastic
March 30th, 2009, 06:07 AM
“Plastic Vantastic” = 1995 Pontiac Trans Sport: thanks to the composite body technology it looks maybe 5 years old. Anyways, the mechanicals aren’t 5 years old and I want (need!) to be able to work with the semi-obscure OBD-I system. I have been trying the evaluation version of EFILIVE V4 to try to obtain DTCs and it would be great as well to look at real time sensor data, etc. There was a definition for that vehicle (1995 Lumina Van 3.8) but it was clearly developed for the pro version as it configures dashboard gauges I would not have (gauges with numbers 8 and up). Moreover, while I have been able to get my DTC’s by parsing the raw serial IO, I have yet to succeed in configuring the tool to show me what I want to see (DTCs and real time sensor data). I’m thinking this is because I am trying to use gauges that have been assigned somewhere else in the profile.
Questions:
1/ is there a way to clear all the existing definition’s dashboard gauge assignments without loosing all the requests that have been created? For that matter, a way to clear all output assignments (DTCs, charts)?
2/ Could somebody look at the 1995 Lumina Van 3.8 profile and check the Clear DTC request – I do not think it is correct (the A221 data stream says that the clear DTC message would be $F4,$56,$0A,$AC).
I think there may be other issues with the macros (the DTC_DATA_00 says <deleted>) but I am not sure.
3/ Can a heartbeat change from one session to the next? What’s going on if it looks like it did?
4/ If anyone out there with bags of spare time wants to take pity on a dumb hardware guy, could they painstakingly give me step by step instructions to configure EFILIVE V4 (eval version) to look at the EGR system (my DTCs indicate feedtube failure and pintle position error).
Thanks in advance for any help.
Questions:
1/ is there a way to clear all the existing definition’s dashboard gauge assignments without loosing all the requests that have been created? For that matter, a way to clear all output assignments (DTCs, charts)?
2/ Could somebody look at the 1995 Lumina Van 3.8 profile and check the Clear DTC request – I do not think it is correct (the A221 data stream says that the clear DTC message would be $F4,$56,$0A,$AC).
I think there may be other issues with the macros (the DTC_DATA_00 says <deleted>) but I am not sure.
3/ Can a heartbeat change from one session to the next? What’s going on if it looks like it did?
4/ If anyone out there with bags of spare time wants to take pity on a dumb hardware guy, could they painstakingly give me step by step instructions to configure EFILIVE V4 (eval version) to look at the EGR system (my DTCs indicate feedtube failure and pintle position error).
Thanks in advance for any help.