Some of the 80's GM cars would show the fault codes on the radio when you
put it in diagnostic mode, but you had to have the GM radio. Not sure how
far into the 90's that persisted.
Ben.....
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Battmain <battmain@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You'll probably need to dig a bit for the info for your particular car. The
> connectors on my cars were over on the passenger side. Normally it was a
> three conductor assembly. The special (read expensive) J-tool to 'short'
> the
> connector was a piece of conductive metal, which in my case was easily
> replicated with a piece of wire. Then you turned the key to 'on' and any
> stored codes were blinked at you on the dash. Kinda like blink, blink,
> blink,
> pause, blink, blink, blink, blink, pause, then it repeated again.
>
> Brian
> >________________________________
> > From: "eric@megageek.com"
> <eric@megageek.com>
> >To: shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net
> >Cc: Battmain
> <battmain@yahoo.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:53 AM
> >Subject: Re:
> [Shop-talk] High Hydrocarbons
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >There is a connector that my OBD II
> connector doesn't fix. How do I 'short' it to get the codes?
> >
> >
> >(snip)
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