Help with talking to 1995 4.3 "W" NON J1850 VCM

[David A. Cooley]

At 11:09 PM 4/18/99 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> Greetings,
>  
> FNG here needing help trying to figure out what will talk to the oddball 1995
> flash based VCM-A on a 4.3 W vortex motor, 5 sp stick, 4 wheel anti-lock.
> This thing has a OBD2 16 pin DLC, with all the right pins stuffed for J1850,
> but won't respond to at all from B&B Electronics OBD2 AT1 Autotap. Sticker
> underhood says OBD1 compliant. Anyone had any luck or know if the Rinda
> Diacom stuff or a custom programmed Hughes Auto Xray unit will talk and/or
> give anything useful? Both of these units only seem to support 12 pin ALDL.
> Is a 12 to 16 adapter all that required for either of these to talk? BTW, the
> B&B unit does give plenty of useful info back on a 1999 OBD2 full size truck,
> including ability to clear trouble codes.
>  
> Eric
>  
>  


Eric,
The 4.3W uses 8192 baud ALDL on pin 9 of the J-1850 connector... My 95 lesabre
uses the same.
the GCAR program on the ftp site and the interface circuit there work great.
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