I picked up an Equus reader after my last round of my TPS needing replacement. I thought I'd run through and check with the reader to see if anything showed up with the engine running codes. Nothing showed up BUT.... The reader showed a 6 instead of an an 8 as to the cylinders. I have the 302. Has anyone run into this? I'm thinking if there were any codes, then if it was thinking I had a 6 cylinder, then something might or might not show up because of this and possibly be an incorrect code.

 

Hmm, interesting. I want to say maybe a bad reader. I have the same one and love it. You could always check the number on you ECU and see what it is. But i don't think a 300/6 ECU would even run a 302

 

question edgethis, is the innova 3140/3120 the same as the equus 31xx series? if so does your 3145 have multi lingual capabilities? figured id ask here since my other thread went dead...lol!! and im looking at the inova/equus readers

 

Multi lingual? Mines doesn't talk.... does yours? I feel ripped off now.

Mines works on all ford, Lincoln, mercury cars and trucks from 81 to 95.

 

maybe i should have clarified, I meant multilingual as in the display, and is your equus unit the same as innova (same company/brand)? my bad if i confused you man! I read the equus units have spanish interface (capability), i dont know if they talk persay but im looking into snatching one of these units as I feel more comfortable using them...can you connect yours to a PC using a USB cable? if so then im sold on the equus/innova units!!

link to what im looking at so your clear on what im talking about
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Innov...item5193bc98a8


as for the reader seeing your truck as a 6 instead of 8 cylinders I would suggest going to the local store you got it from (or maybe another store you know has a similar unit like vatozone just to test) and having them grab another unit that can do essentially the same things and see if it reads the same, if it does then its isolated to the ECU, if it doesn't read the same or it gives you different results then it would most likely be the reader having an...identity crisis....with its self....

 

O wow, that reader is way over mine. Mine only cost me $22 tho. I already had an OBD2 reader. The reader itself only displays the code numbers, you then have to look in the book it comes with to find out what that code is. Maybe they have a spanish book?

 

well I got one, raped my credit carrd by $100 more then i thought $329.99 but its got all the plugs I wanted so YAY! that way now if my friends try to give me there not so helpful experties I got them covered! and all the features I wanted it to have YAY!