OBDII to OBDI adapter?

[saburai]

Anyone know if such a beast exists? I have a half way decent OBDII scan tool already and it'd be great if I didn't have to buy another OBDI tool to read my E4OD codes.

TIA Rich

 

[crash-harris]

Paperclip All you need for OBDI. Of course, I've never had an automatic so it would be best if someone 2nds or vetoes this. I know that pulling codes on OBDI gassers is just a matter of grounding one of the pins on the self test harness and reading the check engine light flash out.

 

[saburai]

Same on the late '80s turbo Dodge cars, except you don't need the paper clip. You just cycle the ignition and the odometer flashes the code to you.

 

[crash-harris]

Same on the late '80s turbo Dodge cars, except you don't need the paper clip. You just cycle the ignition and the odometer flashes the code to you.

I remember being amazed the first time my buddy showed me that years ago, but was a '88 Ramcharger (N/A 318).

 

[saburai]

I remember being amazed the first time my buddy showed me that years ago, but was a '88 Ramcharger (N/A 318).

You woulda been amazed if I took you for a ride in my plain Jane (looking) 87 Shadow. 21psi 2.6L Mustang stomping sleeper, only give away was a vainity plate 4SSFED

 

[crash-harris]

Nice! Same guy that had the RC at one point had a Ranger with the turbo SVO swap done on it. Continually blew intake boots and would get stuck in wet leaves next to the curb I'm just the guy that's only ever owned 2 trucks that I'm always working on

 

[franklin2]

Paperclip All you need for OBDI. Of course, I've never had an automatic so it would be best if someone 2nds or vetoes this. I know that pulling codes on OBDI gassers is just a matter of grounding one of the pins on the self test harness and reading the check engine light flash out.

You need a little more than that on a Ford. Here's how to do it.

http://www.thorssell.net/hbook/eectest.html

 

[Ole BlackBetty]

Can buy a reader at O'Reilly for about 19.00 , that what I did

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[crash-harris]

You need a little more than that on a Ford. Here's how to do it.

http://www.thorssell.net/hbook/eectest.html

I've never used a test light or analog voltmeter for the test. That is one of the ways Ford suggests to pull the codes, but the first half of that (reading the "blips") also applies to the CEL. I always stick a bare wire into the trigger port (single blade self test harness all by its lonesome) and ground the other end. On Bruiser, I actually had a wire with a ring terminal grounded to the fender with a male spade on the other end that I could just plug in whenever I wanted to pull the codes. I always record the flashout on my phone camera so I don't screw up counting the flashes.

 

[saburai]

I wish I had a phone video camera back when I was hotroding the little blown Dodges. It would've been a lot of help for my younger beer fuzzed brain
Back to the scaner, if I don't want to count blinks, I am thinking that I have to buy a OBDIscan tool. My web research leads me to believe that I & II are completely incompatible systems. I've also read that some of the OBDI tools won't read the E4OD codes, do you know anything about this?

 

[crash-harris]

Never had a slushbox so I can't say, but I can day that every OBDI "scan tool" I've seen plugs into the self test harnesses and then blinks the code out on a single light...sound familiar? I'm sure there are others out there that read the pulses and translate the number to you via a screen, but the cheap ones at the parts stores just flash out on a little LED on the tool.

 

[Ole BlackBetty]

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get ya,one,of these at O'Reilly plug it in and wait for the codes, about 20.00.

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[saburai]

Thanks!

 

[riotwarrior]

http://www.amazon.com/INNOVA-3140-OBD2-OBD1-Scan/dp/B000R3SNJU

 

[saburai]

Thats a nice scan tool. Thanks but I already have a nice innova scan tool, it just doesn't read OBDI I have to get a cheap OBDI tool. Thanks for the help guys.