{"id":1298,"date":"2014-01-22T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2014-01-22T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:17:26","slug":"online-engine-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/online-engine-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Engine Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedieselstop.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedieselstop.com\/images\/tds-hl.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>While vacationing in Branson, MO last week with the family, our van engine started running very rough and lost power on a routine drive to the grocery store. \u00a0The engine is a 7.3l Direct Injection PowerStroke with 298k miles on it that&#8217;s not given us any trouble in the 13 years that we&#8217;ve owned it, so I was expecting the worst case scenario. \u00a0I immediately turned to the online forums that I use for advice and recommendations for a solution. \u00a0In this case it was\u00a0<a title=\"Rough idle, no power - Diesel Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedieselstop.com\/forums\/f24\/rough-idle-no-power-258670\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheDieselStop<\/a>. \u00a0Based on the symptoms, the Injector Drive Module (IDM) was the suspected culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was a day away from departure and there was &#8220;no room at the inn&#8221; for us to stay longer, time was of the essence. \u00a0Even worse, the weekend was quickly approaching and it was Thursday night. \u00a0I immediately started a search and by Friday morning had arrived at these options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1000 for new part from local dealer with availability on Tuesday,<\/li>\n<li>$500 for remanufactured part from O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s with availability that afternoon carrying a 1 year warranty,<\/li>\n<li>$250 for remanufactured part from O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s with availability Saturday afternoon carrying a lifetime warranty,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I opted for the last one because of the warranty and, to some degree, the price; however, it didn&#8217;t arrive as promised on Saturday. \u00a0O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s told me that it wouldn&#8217;t arrive until Monday since it had missed this shipment from Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Since I had rented a small car ($24\/day) in the meantime in order to run errands, I expanded the search to a larger area. \u00a0Although AutoZone didn&#8217;t have a location in Branson, there were several in northern Arkansas as well as to the north around Springfield. \u00a0Amazingly, I was able to locate the same remanufactured part with the 1 year warranty in stock at an AutoZone in Ozark (about 30 miles away). \u00a0I was off and running within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>About 2 hours later (got hungry), I arrived with the part and installed it within an hour. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the kicker&#8230; with just an online search and a simple problem description, the diagnosis was correct and our van was back on the road and running perfectly. \u00a0I can&#8217;t even imagine how I would&#8217;ve diagnosed this problem even with all of the tools and time that I would&#8217;ve had at home. \u00a0I&#8217;m super impressed with the experts who share their knowledge and experience via the forums at TheDieselStop and I&#8217;m very thankful for their help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While vacationing in Branson, MO last week with the family, our van engine started running very rough and lost power on a routine drive to the grocery store. \u00a0The engine is a 7.3l Direct Injection PowerStroke with 298k miles on it that&#8217;s not given us any trouble in the 13 years that we&#8217;ve owned it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/online-engine-diagnosis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-kW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}