NuovoRecord wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 19:26 Are there any tricks to soldering to these ECU pins? I just had a hell of a day trying to get wires connected. The pads seem to lift at the slightest movement.

30AWG copper wire w/ silicone insulation, regulated soldering iron/station.

I was under the impression the brick style cem which that looks like one. The cracker is not able to work on it (yet) Now it looks like you have ablitarated the via's!! Now you maybe able to still clone this module. You could try and use usbjtag which can connect to these via the microprocessor. , ...

Brick-shaped CEM has a dedicated flash ROM chip, along with EEPROM. All what you need is a hot air station to desolder the chips and TL866a or other programmer to read the dumps.

Folks I'm messing around with a eeprom dump off a p2 cem ( the older white style) , and trying to view the data. But it's encrypted of course. , it carries the 9s12 1k79X, I am aware IOT terminal and various tools can read this mcu and I believe can decrypt them too , , but I figured what the hell ...

In your opinion better to stick with lower calcium oils in our higher mileage 5 cylinders? In my opinion I threw out hundreds of dollars on boutique oils ;) I took apart another 2.5T engine, from a road worthy car with similar mileage, it had three times the wear compared to my engine, but it was s...

Piston rings as well, it sucks oil mist from crankcase.

So they gradually bow out (microscopically) at the top? Wow. Yeah. This is what Volvo permits: https://a.d-cd.net/R4AAAgJvHeA-960.jpg This is what engine from the donor car w/ 220k miles on the odo had (I was swapping out crashed chassis and took its working engine apart out of interest): https://a...

Thansk, vtl, really interesting! Do you think that my smoking is probably piston rings rather than stem seals or valve guides then, if it only occurs after long periods of high vacuum / engine braking, rather than after idling or upon start up? Likely, both. It is a good idea to replace valve stem ...

T45 is on casting. You can use a socket/wrench on the hex bolt as well.

azureblue wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 10:02 Thanks - Will it be Ok to use it to re leave tension to put the belt back on?

It is in fact designed that way.