rScotty
Super Member
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2001
- Messages
- 8,258
- Location
- Rural mountains - Colorado
- Tractor
- Kubota M59, JD530, JD310SG. Restoring Yanmar YM165D
I think my perspective is the same as any mechanic.
We can see that an ECM and common rail system should be more efficient than a mechanical injection system. At least it certainly has the potential to be.
But the difference today is that although I can diagnose the mechanical system with basic tools that I am familiar with using, I cannot do that with ECM & Common Rail (CR) because access is denied by the manufacturer.
The ECM & CR technology is simple, and there is no reason in the world why a mechanic shouldn't be able to plug any ECM into a home computer to examine and modify how both ECM and injectors are working. That is just basic diagnosis.
But we cannot do that if the software and even the connectors are proprietary & "dealer only".
Keeping that access proprietary is pure selfishness on the part of politicians and big business. It is a profit motivated effort to exclude mechanics and owners everywhere.
Please support the "Right to Repair" movement.
rScotty
We can see that an ECM and common rail system should be more efficient than a mechanical injection system. At least it certainly has the potential to be.
But the difference today is that although I can diagnose the mechanical system with basic tools that I am familiar with using, I cannot do that with ECM & Common Rail (CR) because access is denied by the manufacturer.
The ECM & CR technology is simple, and there is no reason in the world why a mechanic shouldn't be able to plug any ECM into a home computer to examine and modify how both ECM and injectors are working. That is just basic diagnosis.
But we cannot do that if the software and even the connectors are proprietary & "dealer only".
Keeping that access proprietary is pure selfishness on the part of politicians and big business. It is a profit motivated effort to exclude mechanics and owners everywhere.
Please support the "Right to Repair" movement.
rScotty