has anyone been able to get Forscan or Torque Pro to read misfires been trying both of these with no luck on my 2005 f250 6.0

 

I am not familiar with Forscan so I went and looked it up it seems like a Ford only Windows version for the laptop that appears to work like a scanner. According to their documentation it will read all modules and run all tests that IDS can run. More so than any genaric obdII scanner. Uses the elm interface like my scan software does. Tempted to download and install it just to see. By the way the software is free.
If there sales propoganda is true will be a heck of a tool.

Supposedly there is a cellphone version in the works.

Torque pro I have never used either but from everything I have read it is another limited function phone app.

 

Rats I downloaded it but forgot I have no 6.0 to connect to. It will not poulate any of the info unless it is connected to a vehicle.

 

I have TP and have never gotten the misfire thing to work. I've got stiction in cold weather, and I know I have some misfires because it runs rough, but I can't get TP to show them.

How does the third ids find misfires? Is not like there's a sensor that tracks cylinder compression .... is there?

 

The crank sensor, it watches for acceleration and deceleration of the crank and will give a rough idea if a cylinder hits or has low compression.

 

Tp is more of a monitor not a scanner. My scanners have pids for misfire. Mis fire is useually detected by unbalanced cylinder contribution or relative compression tests.
From what I have read TP does no actual tests it just reads values.

 

I have never seen the TP show cylinder misfires for the 6.0L.

It does show misfires for the 5.4L motor. Not each cylinder, just counts misfires.

 

Trying to get my grandaughters husband to bring his 7.3 by or my daughter with her ford gasser so I can play with it see what all the forscan actually can do.

 

My daughter will bring her truck by tomorrow. We will report back on what we find.

 

My attempt at testing the forscan software was a bust. Even tho my scan software uses a Palmer interface which uses the elm software. The forscan is designed to only work with a bluetooth/wifi elm interface that I do not have so I could not connect to my test truck.


Well I tried folks. I was really looking forward to seeing how and if the labscope feature worked.

 

I have ran it on a wired (USB) ELM adaptor. It's been a while though. I understand there is an update with added features. I'll try the update and see if it still works. I did save the download of the previous version if the USB no longer works.

 

Rusty do you remember if the labscope feature work and is it anywhere near as good as the promo information ststes. I mean they they make it sound like it will do nearly everything IDS does.

 

I used it several times awhile back. It does graph things like EGR position, ICP/IPR etc in real time. It has a few initiated tests for things like instrument panel, OBD readiness, and I think it has an ABS test also. It didn't do contribution/balance or injector tests in the previous version though. That would be sweet if they added that.

I just saw your other post. I wasn't aware it offered volt/ohm/amp or freq testing. I never played with that part if it has it.

 

who is it on here that has the AE knockoff?

 

Actually it is me LMAO it's not so much a knock off but a older brother or cousin.
Unfortuneatly it has no labscope function. Called scan XL.