Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Black duct tape, pretty much. The EBTCM is the black thing on the front, all your wheel speed sensors lead to there, along with a wire tapped into the VSS, power, ground, and a few other things.

Now to figure out the pins, I don't know to to read those diagrams I was gonna go off the wire color.

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Originally Posted by Booba5185

Tell me about it, it was a half farad and when I opened the trunk it looked like a bomb went off, a mushroom cloud of smoke just poured out. I'm sure I probably took about 10 years off my life by inhaling that stuff for a month straight, lol.

Haha, yeah that wouldn't be good. Got a good dose of electrolytes. At least it wasn't a pre-1979 capacitor which would have included PCB's, you would literally have lost a few years then. Newer ones are supposedly fairly safe, but still can't be good to breathe

Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

Haha, yeah that wouldn't be good. Got a good dose of electrolytes. At least it wasn't a pre-1979 capacitor which would have included PCB's, you would literally have lost a few years then. Newer ones are supposedly fairly safe, but still can't be good to breathe

So what you are telling me is that I inhaled a lifetime supply of Gatorade? How could that possibly be bad? I'm kidding...


Russosaur - unplug the EBTCM and look at the connector itself, at the end of each row there is a number on the plastic. Use those numbers to count which pin to get to. The pin numbers are the same I posted on the previous page.

Oh well that's just way to convenient, I'll have to check it out tomorrow. The light is intermittent so who knows if it will show.

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Originally Posted by Booba5185

So what you are telling me is that I inhaled a lifetime supply of Gatorade?

Heck yeah, you would put that smoke in an inhaler and use it during a game as an instant gatorade

Originally Posted by Russosaur

Oh well that's just way to convenient, I'll have to check it out tomorrow. The light is intermittent so who knows if it will show.

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Jack up the front of the car and have someone jiggle the wiring harness around while you check the reading. Then do the same for the rear, but the front harness is more prone to go out.

Thought it was just the fronts with ABS

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4 wheel abs, all 4 hubs can and do fail.

That just made this more interesting, thanks booba and scooty

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They all do fail, all mine did. and my EBTCM. And part of my harness. From what I've seen other than my car, front go first, but all 4 should be checked while you're there.

checked my coolant level due to the low coolant light flashing like it was a real emergency or some thing lol damn rads full to the top. so the sensor is now unplugged.

also found some cardboard and parked over it for the night. hope to see it dry in the morning.

fixed my light problem with a couple small pieces of aluminum foal. LOL!

Filled up the car on the way home..

Later took the truck and a bunch of gas cans down.. got me some $2.65 gallons of gasolino

How on earth? Costco points again? I got it for 3.70 last week and felt like I was a queen.

Did some tuning today! Pulls hard!

Saw the highest engine temp I've seen yet in an FWD GP, at a random stoplight with A/C off this morning. Under 220 but still higher than I've seen and only momentarily. It behaved normally at lunch time. Got back in it after work and the DIC had cleared everything but the OLM all by itself. Otherwise just a normal GP day. Or maybe that is normal for junk.

Oh..and I got a chance in warm weather to top off the AC. Found the schrader on high side to be leaking. Put cap back on and drove happily w/o caring. Bought schrader.. not touching it until this freon leaks out.

Diagnosed my ABS light, RF harness on the LCA im 95% sure has a short. Got a solid 1075-1085 ohms on all 3 from the EBTCM but the RF. Pull the harness plug and tested at the bearing at the connector and got 1075 ohms. Stuck a peice of wire in the end of the plug near the LCA on one of the pins wrapped the other end around the black on the DMM then plugged the red into pins 5 and wiggled the wires with no change on the DMM. Got to pin 4 jiggled around the LCA an it kept fluctuating in resistance. Bamo found the problem, I appears I zip tied the harness down too tight and at wrong spot on the LCA and it probably tore from the **** roads around here. Explaining why the light wouldn't always come on. I think I figued out how to find shorts in wiring too, thanks grandpa for the tip.

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I have a harness for you Kyle