As a small kicker the Scan gauge will give you most if not all of these digital readouts on a multi display screen. You can select which settings to monitor. Check out this link www.scangauge.com for more info.

 

Use to on the older vehicles that burnt you ignition up because it is giving fire to which ever cylinder it happened to stop on. Is that not an issue now? Or will you still burn a coil pack up?

 

I just did it in my truck and it worked without beeping.

You did leave the key in the "run" position, right?

 

I'm still scared that it will burn up the ignition to sit with it in the run position, especially considering as long and as often as I use the radio with the door open. There are summer days I spend at the river (when I’m not at the Lake) listening to the radio while we play in the water all day. I use to open all doors and windows and just lodge something on the switch to stop the dinging and hear the radio too. However there is not a switch that I have located on this truck. Does anybody have any other ideas?

 

push the latch on the door closed. the part what grabs the striker. the switch is in there. remeber to lift the handle and flip the latch before you slam the door closed.

 

agreed, I do that one a lot...

 

Great!!! That's handy to know. I'll have to do that next time we are outside or at the river! It maybe a few months though...LOL I might even take a piece of rubber hose to put on the striker bolt, because I'm sure I will forget after several hours and I will shut the door bending everything. I've had to many vehicles that did that naturally because PO's didn't seem to know how to oil them every couple of years or so. LOL

 

Won't happen, without engine rotation there will be no spark. On todays vehicle this is due to crank and cam position sensors etc. and on old vehicles you can't get a spark until the points close.

 

I believe with older vehicles it wasn’t about sending a spark or firing a cylinder, which isn’t possible as you say, but rather if the points were closed in the distributor there would be power going through them. The battery voltage, if the points were closed, would have current flowing through the points into the primary side of the coil. This over time would create a lot of heat in the points making them brittle and more susceptible to pitting, or if left on long enough, destroying the points themselves and/or damaging the primary side of the coil.

Now if the points would have happened to be in an open position you would have had no problems.

 

So "except on diesel" the ignition is not energized untill the starter engages? Sweet! Thats handy to know too.
I had always just asumed if the cyl. is up and the ignition was on then it would want to try and fire. I really hadn't thought that much about it.

 

I've nearly choked a person to death for not believing me when I told them this.

I grew up in minnesota. Flooded cars (flooded with gas) are common during the winter. Flooring the pedal (at least on older GM cars) shuts off the fuel flow. You would not believe how many people refuse to do this when you're trying to help them jump start their car.

-fatz.

 

With Fuel Injection I've always heard your not suppose to touch the gas pedal at all. But if something happens and it does flood, I've always wondered how you are suppose to start them? Or if you were suppose to just wait it out?

So I have to know mnfatz. Did it ever start?

I might sound like a ***** but if I'm helping somebody, especially out in the cold like that and they refuse to try it my way after thier way was failing... Then I think I would unhook the cables and tell them that I'm not going to ruin my battery nor will I freeze to death because of thier ignorance.

 

In older cars w/ points, you could melt the points together w/ the key in the 'run' position but the vehicle not started- since the invention of electric ignition this is no longer the case.

But if you still don't want to try it, and if your truck still beeps w/ the driver's side door open and the key in the 'run' condition (which it shouldn't), you can open the passenger side door w/ the key in the 'accessory' position w/ out the truck beeping.

 

That's good information to have. My first truck had points originally "later upgraded" but I can remeber my dad telling me that years ago and I had just never questioned it after that.

So what about using the gas pedal on a fuel injected motor after it is flooded. Can we give it any gas, or should we stay out of the pedal? I have never seen a fuel injected flood yet but I'm sure in sever cold that it could like MnFatz mentioned.

 

I am looking for software and hook ups for PC to let me take full control of the timing, fuel, air, etc. I know they are available for other vehicles. What is the best one for Ford and where can I find them?


Attention programmers... I'm sure there has to be more tricks in our trucks, Help us find them! Please...