Today my lights were used in the daytime while diagnosing a misfiring engine.
The motor would not fire until my son and I swapped out a throttle position sensor. Idle was bouncing like mad due to air bubbles after replacing the throttle body and some idle control coolant hoses.
Today it began to flat out misfire when warm. Ran perfect when cold. Wut-thuh? So using my yellow SureFire G2x Pro to look for broken wires or perhaps a cracked vacuum hose led to finding a broken wire to the idle control thingy.
The little gray connector is the culprit.
The others are practice connectors and useful for spare pins with some wire.
I really don't like splicing but may have to this time. The pins that slide onto the idle control valve connection point are smaller than I have in stock and good luck getting part numbers for them from Honda. It's why I kept the broken gray connector on the left we got at a junkyard a while back.
Also enjoyed using a 5 lumen hypertough magnet tipped light from WalMart to pluck a dropped wrench from the abyss...
Perfect for spotting and retrieving small dropped items.
Later I'll do this type of repair with new pins hopefully.
Broken connector was replaced with a non broken one.
Like this:
To this:
The motor would not fire until my son and I swapped out a throttle position sensor. Idle was bouncing like mad due to air bubbles after replacing the throttle body and some idle control coolant hoses.
Today it began to flat out misfire when warm. Ran perfect when cold. Wut-thuh? So using my yellow SureFire G2x Pro to look for broken wires or perhaps a cracked vacuum hose led to finding a broken wire to the idle control thingy.
The little gray connector is the culprit.
The others are practice connectors and useful for spare pins with some wire.
I really don't like splicing but may have to this time. The pins that slide onto the idle control valve connection point are smaller than I have in stock and good luck getting part numbers for them from Honda. It's why I kept the broken gray connector on the left we got at a junkyard a while back.
Also enjoyed using a 5 lumen hypertough magnet tipped light from WalMart to pluck a dropped wrench from the abyss...
Perfect for spotting and retrieving small dropped items.
Later I'll do this type of repair with new pins hopefully.
Broken connector was replaced with a non broken one.
Like this:
To this:
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