Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

I can access the collar that is seized now. I cut the shock off with a cutoff wheel and air hammer. Both sides.
I also cut my arm, its not that bad so I'll keep working lol

Got it. Piece of crap. Used an air hammer on the collar til I made a groove, then hit it on an angle as if to turn it while I had a breaker bar on the bolt. Spun it loose.

I love those.

I either get them glowing red and hit em with a gun or I heat them and grab the collar with some vise grips and spin the nut out.

Yep, just another day as a Michigan technician.

bought this phone holder. its pretty damn good so far.. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._detailpages00

I picked up one of these, it's very strong holds up my Galaxy Tab 3 7.0.
http://www.amazon.com/SCOSCHE-MagicM.../dp/B00I608BHU
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replaced the gasket and grommets on the front valve cover, lets see if this keeps the front valve cover grime free from now on

edit: A bit of a story while getting these parts from NAPA. Started off with just the gasket, then decided to replace the grommts as well. Not in stock, so had them shipped from Calgary, two day shipping time. Come back into store, new package of gasket and grommet was there but they wanted $90 for it, just about **** my pants. That would be $5/grommet. No thank you. Turned out to be the set for the s/c engine, I have n/a. Found a seperate package of grommets for only $17 that were already in the store.

New spark plugs, wires, air filter on the avalanche today. It was pretty easy. Only problem plug was #8 because of some heat sheilding in the way but some hulking and it moved.



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Thought I had my "dim cluster signal" issue figured out; pulled a headlight assembly with the plans of putting a diode on the signal wire. Turns out, I already did that. Bummer! Put the headlight back in, did a quick test to make sure the lights were all working. Everything was fine, then the fog lights shut off after 5 seconds. Fawk! Did a quick test and had power to the relay, but none going to the lights. Figured the relay went bad, so put a different one in. No worky. Tried a third relay. no worky. Did more testing and everything was fine, yet no power coming out of any of the relay. Fawk again! I then put my tools away and went to bed.

Now my 2 page list of things to do has one more thing on it.

Can't get anything out of the relay if the coil is closed.

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Can't get anything out of the relay if the coil is closed.

True dat, but why is it closed? It has constant 12v, trigger 12v and ground. And the fact that it worked then stopped.

Is the trigger 12V? Usually our cars trigger with ground.

If say the pcm/bcm decided you shouldn't have them on.. then it removed it's trigger. If you know you have power coming in..and continuity from the wire going out to the fogs, then ... your coil is not being actuated. You tested it with many relays, we know it's not the relay. That leaves the power and ground to the coil. One of them is controlled by bcm/pcm.

Let me pull up the schematic. I didn't think the BCM\PCM was involved.

2002...I think it's bcm.

You have the lights getting an input from the photocell that gets fed somewhere to automatically turn them on. You usually have a relay or it's built into a bcm to turn off the fogs when high beams are on.

These are from a 2000, but there is clearly a bcm involved

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Is the trigger 12V? Usually our cars trigger with ground.

If say the pcm/bcm decided you shouldn't have them on.. then it removed it's trigger. If you know you have power coming in..and continuity from the wire going out to the fogs, then ... your coil is not being actuated. You tested it with many relays, we know it's not the relay. That leaves the power and ground to the coil. One of them is controlled by bcm/pcm.

I have an aftermarket wiring harness on the fogs and headlights. No PCM or BCM involved here.

I feel like you could have mentioned that quite a while back lol, or maybe I should have read better.

OK.. so do you have continuity and the correct inputs?

The trigger wire would still be controlled by the PCM\BCM unless you have a different switch on the dash, too. Let me look through the schematics...

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

You have the lights getting an input from the photocell that gets fed somewhere to automatically turn them on. You usually have a relay or it's built into a bcm to turn off the fogs when high beams are on.

I did the jumper mod so fogs are on with park, low and hi's.

I'll figure it out, just need to put some time into it.

Got poly round bushings off a member on here and installed them, this totally made everything solid and they were cake to install.