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Monday, 22 September 2014

Cars & Transportation: Other: “Question: Need help finding a adapter?” plus 5 more

Cars & Transportation: Other: “Question: Need help finding a adapter?” plus 5 more


Question: Need help finding a adapter?

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 11:08 AM PDT

Need help finding a adapter?

Ok so I'm looking for a ac car plug that can take a 2 prong wall charger. My current phone charger doesn't have a detachable usb cord so I have to use the wall mount. So do they make these because I can't seem to find them.

Question: Any ideas why only left side turn signal and flasher works on a trailer power hooked to a truck?

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 10:35 AM PDT

It could be as simple as a broken trailer light. Assuming you've ruled that out, make sure the trailer wires correspond exactly to the truck's towing configuration. Sometimes a trailer will have a different number of wires than the truck appears to be capable of handling, or vice versa. The wire colors will usually match, but not always. It may be, for example, that your right signal wire is attached to the trailer's AUX terminal because both are on the end of their respective plugs (opposite end of the ground). You could also have a couple of pinched wires causing a short. If you are using a pre-wired adapter, I would suspect something is wrong with the adapter.

Question: Firing order for a 98 f150 300 6 cylinder?

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 09:36 AM PDT

I assume that is still a straight six?

1 - 5 - 3 - 6 - 2 - 4

The distributor rotor turns CLOCKWISE

The marked # 1 position on the distributor cap faces AWAY from the engine

Question: What may be the cause of my car losing power? Who's most likely right and why?

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 09:19 AM PDT

There is no governor per se, but just a routine in the ecu to limit speed. It is not at all in the instrument cluster, but in the ecu. But you did not tell use the make, model, or year, so that is just a general guess.
Speed sensor is possible, but that is not likely either, since that is used more for axle feedback so the transmission knows when to shift. If I was going down that path of the mph being wrong, then it is the ecu I would suspect.
However, I would normally start with the fuel system, and do a pressure check myself.
Then I would do an OBDII download to see what the system thinks is happening.

Question: When I see souped-up stick shift vehicles drive by, whenever they switch gears you hear air pressure being released. Someone explain?

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 08:41 AM PDT

That is only on a car with an after market turbo charger, a it has a blow off valve to relieve excess turbo boost pressure that is not needed when shifting. It is not ideal or desirable to make this noise, and all built in turbo chargers use a waste gate instead, to eliminate that awful noise. The problem of a blow off valve is that it release air that has already had fuel measured for it, so always then wastes that fuel.
Wastegates don't waste fuel, just bypass the turbo with the exhaust when boost is not needed.

Question: I ran out of gas and was stopped along the highway. An officer stopped and said my car would need towed because where it was parked.?

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 08:29 AM PDT

Hello

If you had a mobile and some one you could have phoned to bring a can of gas they would have let you do that. You were obviously broken down in what they considered a dangerous place so you got towed and have to pay for it

Andy C

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