Might your TPS setting's be inaccurate also????
06-18-2006, 12:04 PM
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Might your TPS setting's be inaccurate also????
Well I was at work today sitting in the shop with nothing to do (just got done doing an oil change on my 5.0, because we were horribly slow yesterday), and I decided to hook the shop's code reader up to my computer (keep in mind that this is an $8,000 code reader, I want one), and decided to check my tps. Well we got it all hooked up, and it said that my TPS was at .83V, and I had just set it at home at .993 on my multimeter. Well we wanted to see how innacurate another one of the mechanic's multi-meters were so we hooked his ($150) multimeter up to the tps and it said that my TPS voltage was 1.027, we were amazed at these different numbers. So I'm guessing that I want to trust the 8,000 dollar machine over the 150 dollar multimeter. I was just amazed at how much that multi-meter was off by.
06-18-2006, 12:22 PM
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RE: Might your TPS setting's be inaccurate also????
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Well I was at work today sitting in the shop with nothing to do (just got done doing an oil change on my 5.0, because we were horribly slow yesterday), and I decided to hook the shop's code reader up to my computer (keep in mind that this is an $8,000 code reader, I want one), and decided to check my tps. Well we got it all hooked up, and it said that my TPS was at .83V, and I had just set it at home at .993 on my multimeter. Well we wanted to see how innacurate another one of the mechanic's multi-meters were so we hooked his ($150) multimeter up to the tps and it said that my TPS voltage was 1.027, we were amazed at these different numbers. So I'm guessing that I want to trust the 8,000 dollar machine over the 150 dollar multimeter. I was just amazed at how much that multi-meter was off by.
Well I was at work today sitting in the shop with nothing to do (just got done doing an oil change on my 5.0, because we were horribly slow yesterday), and I decided to hook the shop's code reader up to my computer (keep in mind that this is an $8,000 code reader, I want one), and decided to check my tps. Well we got it all hooked up, and it said that my TPS was at .83V, and I had just set it at home at .993 on my multimeter. Well we wanted to see how innacurate another one of the mechanic's multi-meters were so we hooked his ($150) multimeter up to the tps and it said that my TPS voltage was 1.027, we were amazed at these different numbers. So I'm guessing that I want to trust the 8,000 dollar machine over the 150 dollar multimeter. I was just amazed at how much that multi-meter was off by.
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