What are you working on today?
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A year or so ago I had to replace the alternator on my 2003 Accord with 2.4L engine. Replaced belt and tensioner pulley as well. So far all is good.
as a result of bad alternator i got another warning on
its very random on and off; i attest it to the depleted battery. my battery is less that 1y old by now;
ill be driving it for about next 10 days in hope to revive/recharge the battery. if not then ill be changing the battery too in coming weeks or so
Went down and watered the orchid. The bucket doesn’t go down as far as the borrowed Kioti. Take it over and scoop out with a 5 gallon bucket. Still managed to snatch up 20 gallons or so. After that since had the tractor out did 30-40 minute of brush hogging a few areas
Finished the first phase of redoing the horse trailer front tack. All the old paneling is out along with anything that was moldy or wrecked by mice. New strapping and insulation is installed.
On order is a direct to DC rv roof fan which will wire right to the battery. I will mount a shore power plug under the gooseneck neck as well. I also have on order some solar panel mounts to finally get the panel up on the roof.
This next week, between other things and work, I will pick out some new carpet and underlay for the goose. If my days off come through this weekend, my wife and I will pick out some paneling and maybe some flooring.
Then I can reconstruct the front of the nose....
On order is a direct to DC rv roof fan which will wire right to the battery. I will mount a shore power plug under the gooseneck neck as well. I also have on order some solar panel mounts to finally get the panel up on the roof.
This next week, between other things and work, I will pick out some new carpet and underlay for the goose. If my days off come through this weekend, my wife and I will pick out some paneling and maybe some flooring.
Then I can reconstruct the front of the nose....
Driving with a failed alternator for an extended period of time damaged your battery.
However, without reading the codes, you cannot conclude this to be your issue.
Yeah I’d never drive a vehicle long as he did like that.
Progress on the Dodge 3.7L, My cylinder head guy is great at what he does!!
Did a simple 500h service on a EC220E and a 1000h rotortilt oil change, also have a new work van. 2025 Sprinter high roof. Auto and all of the bling bling. Bossman said it was around 100k dollars in the spec we get. Have only driven 2000km but it’s nice.
Oil cooler on 3.6 Pentastar in WK2 GC. Vacuuming out a nice paste of oil, coolant and mouse poop. So fun!
New Dorman in place. Note great access at rear with cowl removed:
Also cured a constant battery light that has befuddled the owner for a couple years. I found the connector on rear of alt damaged and a new connector from SMP cured it instantly:
New Dorman in place. Note great access at rear with cowl removed:
Also cured a constant battery light that has befuddled the owner for a couple years. I found the connector on rear of alt damaged and a new connector from SMP cured it instantly:
I was all set to paint my 2" pipe 2 foot extension a nice black. This is for angling our newest (black) shade sail differently per the boss. I have a nice bomb can from last year on the shelf, primed last night. Fancy one. Completely flat. Not clogged, propellant gone. Uggh.
On this '11 Grand Cherokee the blower motor would cut in and out, seemingly at random but there may have been a pattern.
The interweb suggests this is actually the system signaling a problem with climate control. Why you would choose this as an indicator and why you'd expect anyone to know this is what it means is a secret closely held by Chrysler Stellantis Cialis.
Even more curious, my upper-end Otofix found no HVAC codes. Indeed, I could access the HVAC manufacturer side, look at live data like commanded positions and perform live tests like moving actuators with the scanner, but no codes were present in the HVAC module/BCM. Nice work Stellantis Cialis.
However I noticed the right hand temp control did nothing, and so this seemed a good place to start.
I tore into the dash (easy) and found the actuator hanging by its harness, completely disconnected from the duct box. In a case of just-when-you-think-you've-seen-it-all, someone had drilled two holes in the pinion and cobbled it in place with an impressively long coat hanger carefully wedged under the center console. Presumably the two holes were SUMMER and WINTER settings
I can understand such things in the Alaskan Bush or a third world country, but here O'Reilly carries both the actuator and the gear that always breaks (albeit Murray which is probably Four Seasons?). The blend door itself moved freely by hand with positive stops, so nothing seems broken internal to the box.
The gear was MIA as were the plasti-screws, and the existing actuator (Dorman logo) was dead, not moving even when I applied polarity.
I installed a new gear and actuator and everything works as it should. Fortunately I hoard plasti-screws from other projects.
The trickiest thing about these systems is getting them to "try again" because once it determines there's a problem it won't even try to move the actuator for......a certain amount of time?.....a certain number of start cycles? I don't know. Completely unplugging and re-plugging the actuator seemed to work, and my Otofix had a "reset ECU" for the HVAC section which I think also helped once.
Finally -- if anyone made it this far -- I was looking at a '14 Ram yesterday also with failed passenger side temp controls. It seems that actuator is on the FRONT of the HVAC box, sandwiched right against the firewall. Replacement requires complete dash removal. I'm just gonna suggest maybe we're over-engineering things and dual zone climate control isn't really necessary.
The interweb suggests this is actually the system signaling a problem with climate control. Why you would choose this as an indicator and why you'd expect anyone to know this is what it means is a secret closely held by Chrysler Stellantis Cialis.
Even more curious, my upper-end Otofix found no HVAC codes. Indeed, I could access the HVAC manufacturer side, look at live data like commanded positions and perform live tests like moving actuators with the scanner, but no codes were present in the HVAC module/BCM. Nice work Stellantis Cialis.
However I noticed the right hand temp control did nothing, and so this seemed a good place to start.
I tore into the dash (easy) and found the actuator hanging by its harness, completely disconnected from the duct box. In a case of just-when-you-think-you've-seen-it-all, someone had drilled two holes in the pinion and cobbled it in place with an impressively long coat hanger carefully wedged under the center console. Presumably the two holes were SUMMER and WINTER settings
I can understand such things in the Alaskan Bush or a third world country, but here O'Reilly carries both the actuator and the gear that always breaks (albeit Murray which is probably Four Seasons?). The blend door itself moved freely by hand with positive stops, so nothing seems broken internal to the box.
The gear was MIA as were the plasti-screws, and the existing actuator (Dorman logo) was dead, not moving even when I applied polarity.
I installed a new gear and actuator and everything works as it should. Fortunately I hoard plasti-screws from other projects.
The trickiest thing about these systems is getting them to "try again" because once it determines there's a problem it won't even try to move the actuator for......a certain amount of time?.....a certain number of start cycles? I don't know. Completely unplugging and re-plugging the actuator seemed to work, and my Otofix had a "reset ECU" for the HVAC section which I think also helped once.
Finally -- if anyone made it this far -- I was looking at a '14 Ram yesterday also with failed passenger side temp controls. It seems that actuator is on the FRONT of the HVAC box, sandwiched right against the firewall. Replacement requires complete dash removal. I'm just gonna suggest maybe we're over-engineering things and dual zone climate control isn't really necessary.
Plumbing up a garden water supply for a dog waterer thing, nipple kind goes on a hose bib.
For when the wife makes you sleep outside, eh? It happens.....at least you can stay hydrated
Exhausted today.. late concert then got paged soon as I fell asleep. Over something that shouldn’t of. But did get the Kioti power washed before heads home. Filled the rv tanks with some of the remainder.. still had 10-15 gallons left, that blue canvas water tank is awesome.
Painted
Plumbed for dawg
