Vmm Inspection Machine

[Renita Lukins]

Asa dedicated practice, machine inspection refers to scheduled, purposeful, proactive equipment checks that are carefully designed to identify possible issues and forecast necessary maintenance needs. By gauging machine health at regular intervals, the facility is able to address potential issues more quickly, reduce unplanned maintenance events, and more effectively plan for inventory and MRO needs.

Inspections should be performed by trained, certified individuals with expertise in the field. An understanding of the equipment at hand, the processes, and applications it is used for, and the goals and objectives of the facility are key to complete effective inspections.

Comprehensive equipment inspections should occur at least once a year. In most cases, a twice-yearly inspection will yield tangible maintenance benefits that can justify the cost. As mentioned above, machine health inspections should not be considered the same as standard everyday preventive maintenance tasks performed within the facility. Equipment inspection is a detailed task with specific goals and targeted results.

Machine inspection can benefit any manufacturing or industrial facility. While expertise in equipment health inspections can be tailored across industries, applications and manufacturers, some of the industries where these services can be most effective are:

The customer has not been able to get a valid inspection sticker because the vehicle won't communicate with any inspection machine it has been connected to. There are no drivability symptoms but every time they take it to an inspection station they are told the machine won't communicate with their truck.

They've been to multiple shops including the dealer who installed and programmed a new ECM, but it was still not fixed. They took the vehicle to the motorist assistance center. They weren't able to solve the problem either so it was finally referred to our shop. Challenge accepted.

I plugged in my Snap-On scanner and found it communicated. There were many communication buss codes in many modules but it showed all readiness monitors complete. I plugged in a basic generic OBD scanner and it also communicated. Ok, now let's try the inspection machine dongle. Sure enough, with the inspection dongle connected, it wouldn't communicate. Interestingly, the vehicle also became a no start at the same time the inspection machine was connected. At this point I was confident we were dealing with a fault in the communication bus circuits.

My initial check was a resistance test of the CAN bus. I let the modules power down and then looked for 60 ohms resistance across the pins of the CAN bus. I initially read 88 ohms but as I watched the meter, the readings were fluctuating. At one point it read 128 ohms which would indicate one of the terminating resistors was open.

I connected an oscilloscope to the High Speed CAN communication bus to get a visual look at the communication signals. With nothing connected to the bus, it looked corrupted but there was still enough communication occurring to keep the truck running. When I plugged the inspection machine dongle in, the bus got noticeably worse and the Truck would not run.

The scope showed that the CAN low signal was pulled to ground all the time. The CAN high signal was pulled low but was still producing communication packets. I started my troubleshooting by disconnecting easy to get to modules one by one and looking for a change in the CAN signals. I started with the ECM, ABS, BCM and transmission modules and there was no change in the signals.

At this point I consulted a wiring diagram to find ways to split up the system and isolate where the fault might be. I found connector C210 was easy to get to under the dash near the steering column. I disconnected it and suddenly the CAN bus looked normal. Looking at the diagram it appeared the only module isolated by this connector was the Restraint Control module. I reconnected C210 and then unplugged the RCM. To my surprise, the bus was corrupted again.

Ok, so the problem went from bad to good to bad again when I moved connector C210. Now I'm thinking there must be a harness issue in this area. I watched the scope while I carefully started to manipulate the harnesses under the dash. Sure enough, I eventually found a spot where I could make the problem come and go by touching a certain harness. A careful look under the dash revealed a suspect spot on this harness where it pressed against the metal edge of the parking brake bracket.

I pulled the parking brake control assembly out so I could access the harness. On close inspection i found one of the CAN bus wires had the insulation rubbed through and a tiny bit of copper was touching ground. That tiny contact was all it took to affect the bus. I believe that when the inspection machine dongle was plugged in, it loaded the circuit beyond what it could handle and caused the complete failure of the bus.

Hello Matt,When I worked for Ford, we could submit information through the database system and has reports accumulated they would eventually get used in the resolution database for the problem. It is a matter of the dealer submitting all the needed information. From time to time I still coordinate with the local Ford dealer Service Manager I use to work with.

in order to do anything now and for several years you have to submit anything through Technical hotline contacts. That is where you can also search for known fixes. Nothing is submitted directly through OASIS and nothing ever shows on OASIS unless a TSB, GSB, or SSM is created

I wondered about that too. I found my Autel Ultra VCI crashed the bus also. It seems that the tools that communicated didn't have their own power source.The Autel and the inspection machine dongles both have their own power sources.

Hello Alberto,I've seen that happen with Snap On scanners before because Snap often used their own ground in their scanners, and it provides a network ground through the DLC. Basically, it feeds a missing ground. This was an issue back in the old days of the OTC scanners without a ground feeding back into the DLC.

I think you would have an extremely hard time getting that fixed under warranty because there were no drivability problems with the vehicle. The problem (noticeable) only surfaced when the inspection machine was plugged in.

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