Warning: My old-school distrust of scan tools is gone after a tricky injector issue

For a long time, I thought fixing diesels was all about feel and experience, no need for fancy computers. But when I faced a weird injector problem that had me stumped, hooking up a good scan tool showed the fault clear as day, saving hours of guesswork. Do you guys still fight the digital shift, or have you come around to it?

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camerong394d ago

Get it now, they're game-changers for weird faults.

nathan8873d ago

My 6.7 Powerstroke threw a P228D... no balance rate issues, just a dead injector. Those scanners really are lifesavers for weird faults like that.

gavin_jones104d ago

Which specific fault codes finally showed the injector issue... was it just balance rates or something deeper? @camerong39 is right about them being game-changers, but I still get tripped up when the data doesn't match the physical symptoms.