Chevrolet Trax: Is a lab scope necessary?
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INTRODUCTION
You probably have several tools at your disposal to diagnose injector
circuits. But you might have questioned
"Is a lab scope necessary to do a thorough job, or will a set of noid lights
If a short in an injector coil winding is constant, an ohmmeter will
accurately identify the lower resistance. The
same is true with an open winding. Unfortunately, an intermittent short is an
excep
The obvious strength of a dwell/duty meter is that you can compare injector
on-time against a known-good
reading. This is the only practical way to use a dwell/duty meter, but requires
you to have k
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Diagnostic Instructions
Perform the Diagnostic System Check - Vehicle prior to using this
diagnostic procedure.
Review Strategy Based Diagnosis for an overview of the diagnostic
approach.
Diagnostic Procedure Instructions provides an overview of each
diagnostic category.
DTC Descriptors
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Fuel System Overview
The fuel system is an electronic returnless on-demand design. A returnless
fuel system reduces the internal
temperature of the fuel tank by not returning hot fuel from the engine to the
fuel tank. Reducing the internal
temperature of the fuel tank results in lower evaporative