You know I would have to look, I have never looked at the manual that came with it. These ones are very self explanatory, labeled really well. Simply pulling stored, pending and erasing codes is easy, it’s using the diagnostic capabilities of the scanner that require more knowledge. Something like a smoke test on a evap system is not a scanner thing, that’s a technician thing. And any issues you have there are several of us here to help
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Have you tested your scanner on an s10 or other chevrolet?
I tested a few before my boy found this, it was difficult to find one that worked on my car, they say it is obd 1.5 on my s10a.
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There are goofball years for all makes, for instance the V10 I am building is a “late” 95, technically a 96 which would require obd2 to be sold. It has a obd2 connector running OBD1 programming and my scanner will not recognize the truck since it is pre emissions. I have seen this more on dodge then any other make but they weren’t the only ones to do it I have seen several others
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Well decades and decades of doing these changing, evolving systems by the early 2000’s proved to me that the majority of the manufacturers had achieved a maximum of 7 years; 175,000 miles of reliability.
After that . . . you are shooting craps dice.
Some systems like alternators starters and water pumps did get much better.
Other once rock solid systems like engine camshaft timing components and the 1960’s evolved automatic transmissions got much worse.
And of course layered more complex emissions systems.
It really does take much more than flash-codes; or OBD 1st generation two digits codes to sort out what is happening.
And even with 3 and 4 digit codes you still need your specific systems historical known failures points.
I’ve been the knowing Ford/Dodge guy screwed the pooch on a will not idle right Honda. PCV valve worn, stuck open!! No codes!
I’ve been the old AMC/Ford/Dodge, and some GM’s guy unable to get a VW Jetta to run right after a timing belt change out. No Codes. Special relearn sequence needed to be set up and ran. An Audi/VW basic apprentice taught procedure.
And I’ve been the guy with an early 2000’s Chevy pickup at only 44,000 mile coding out random cylinder mis-firing! Head scratching for 2-3 days. That one year OEM they had weak early failing coil to distributor ignition cables. Cold humid mornings - misfiring. Warming up OK. Hot under hood back to misfiring! Daily working GM Techs knowing right where to jump.
Good auto shops have to subscribe to runs up to $500 a month information subscription services.
You can now troll through Internet forum make-model enthusiast sites and get quite a few pattern failures discussed and registered.
OR . . . buy into this information with the scanner purchase the most direct and cheapest way.
Choose wisely.
Expect to pay one way or the other for each specific vehicle with it’s own unique problems sets.
The 2007 Hyundai Tucson will PO300 random misfire on me sometimes. Why? Does not like it when I tank top off with non-ethanol gasoline.
The Wife’s 2014 Ford Edge beginning at 172,000 miles and 7 years check engine coded for Bank 1, HOS 1 failing. Scanner code cleared. Has now with 175,000 miles, and entered into it’s 8th year and coded back twice for the same.
Yep. Sooner or later that will be a new $$$ Ford oxygen sensor I’ll have to change out. One of four in that vehicle.
It begins.
This time she needs to take this one out to at least 10-12 years and whatever milage. Incomes down. Vehicle prices are way up. And the Inflation Gobbler Monster is back after decades sleeping.
Beware of cheap.
Beware of easy.
Expect to pay.
Demand to get what you are willing to pay.
Steve Unruh
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Well my old faithful hodge-podge OHC Honda engined mower lives for another year.
Eight years on this one now. I’d guess ~800 hours? First starting up for the last three years has needed starting fluid. There after O.K. for the rest of the season.
The engine is a consumer products aluminum bore to boot.
This year it was a new pull rope. Super easy engine to work on.
These Honda’s have a very tough metal true full 1 inch 27mm crankshaft stub. I hit plenty of rocks and metals now that had bent and broken previous Tecumseh and Briggs and Stratton’s.
It just ate a trucker load winch hiding in the tall grass. (Peaking just behind the engine top).
Started up after hammering the sheet metal housing back into shape. Gonna’ need a replacement blade bent now to reduce the vibration. Just too spring-ee for me to get it to bend back. Ha! I’ve learned not to use heat. Breaks later!
This is the engine surfboarder Jahee should be trying to use.
The one in my Honda 2000 inverter generator goes 4400 RPM, factory setting.
Ha! Still rough ground mowing with tingling hands. Vibration helps pushing across rough ground.
Steve Unruh
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Steve you gotta protect those nerves! Get some jackhammer gloves to take some vibration out.
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I’ve been reading things but not very active on the forum i have a problem where I get wrapped up in friends projects but hopefully ill be able to work on some if my own stuff
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I thought I bookmarked the link to the 0-30 psi pressure gauge someone found. Apparently not. Could someone point me to the link please.
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Here’s my highly sophisticated setup for the opening of propane tanks. I use pipe wrenches ranging from “Surgical” to “I Wasn’t Asking”
Here is the Surgical size, little guy for the tight spaces. My biggest monkey wrench is a 24" handle forged steel from Grandpa.
Then I just fill them up with water for overnight and store them upside down.
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While I appreciate the video’s of the scythe. I HIGHLY recommend not having Argos Slovenia advertise, using a picture of you and Kristian holding scythe, carrying an hour glass, wearing black robes, and halloween skeleton masks. 
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Elm327 connect via bluetooth to whatever device. They are maybe 10 bucks. The trick is getting the right software to read codes, there are a couple of free apps that do it. I had one rocking one from Russia about 8 years ago, that actually had support to unlock my ford that went into stolen mode… I don’t recall the name of it. It was sweet and more like real diagnostic software.
They probably have something for android now too or whatever your cell phone or tablet uses.
@ForbiddenTuna The elm327’s can do anything the regular obd2 scantools can do, provided you have the software that can do it. It is like an arduino that reads the signals, and then bridges it over bluetooth, and vice versa. And it is just a bluetooth connection so you can try as much software as you want until you find something that does what you want.
That being said, only like half the codes are in the ODB2 spec, so depending on software, it might behave like the cheap scantool, and say vacuum leak. And better software like manufacturers, will say something more specific like ‘beer can stuck in intake’
And like the security unlock doesn’t work without the right software, nor does key programming, etc. Finding the software with the advanced functionality is harder. 
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Getting way late into planting this year. Starting small. Now that the concrete terraces next to the house have been reclaimed from the walnut menace I’m going to plant some perennial cooking herbs. Not the best in terms of sunlight but I remember there was an out of control Rosemary that grandma had.
Right now I just put in seeds for burpless cucumbers and Gladstone white onions on the porch pots.
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Enjoying a very nice Napolitano restaurant in town with Dad. Named Terra Mia, “My Land”. Very nice staff.
Edit, After Action Report: The food is delicious and the owner came out to make sure it was to satisfaction. Very lovely people.
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I believe that is the forscan program i was refuring too. Im pretty sure its based out of russa because when i used it a few months ago the only option was the trial version(same as paid version you just have to get a new key every three months) because of the Russia conflict you couldnt transfer funds for the paid memberships.
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It might have been. It sounds familiar. I just remember it started out as an open source project, and I had the repository copied, and I lost it when I had an issue with my backup system. It only ran the Ford unbrick stuff on windows, and the virtual machine I used, had been deleted.
I may have posted it in a thread on here. -somewhere- but it may have still been the yahoo group.
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A look at my little birds . I think they are worth their weight in silver 
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Mr. Wayne, Are those barn swollows?? There was a time that every evening they would line the power lines. I love them for the bugs they eat. They nest in my old barn and drop deposits on anything I put in the barn. If I go into the barn they attack me— dive bomb me and screech like crazy.
TomC
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Yes Mr. Tom .
They are barn swallows. The only time I see them go to the ground is to get mud to build a nest . When some of the young birds leave the nest I have seen the adults feed them in mid air .
Some days I will see them flying 3-4 inches above the grass and other days go high and out of sight .
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Yes, depends on the weather, but I dont have to explain the experts . And yes, they are a bunch of happy birds.
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I’ve never tried to keep track but I spend at least 3 or 4 hundred dollars a year on bird seed and yet I’ve never seen them do one thing for me except let me watch them out the window. If they would do something about the damned swarms of deer flies we have here I’d call us even.
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