FTO's Over Heating..... any thoughts ideas to help?

[PHIL069]

I'm contemplating ordering an Evoscan, I emailed them last week, asking if they know how well it supports the FTO.
No response yet

Just go borrow mikeey01nzl's

[mikeey01nzl]

Technikhaus and anyone else who is interested in the Evoscan.. It's meant to work (list below) I just haven't figured out how other than to read the error codes.

NEW EvoScan Mitsubishi OBDI/MUTI/ALDL/MMCD 12pin DataLogger Cable (1989-1994 Mitsubishis)
HighSpeed USB Cable for Mitsubishi 1989-1994 vehicles. Perfect for EvoScan. Specifically supports pre 1995 Mitsubishi Vehicles with a 12 pin diagnostic port for EFI Datalogging. Mitsubishis produced in California changed to the newer OBDII 16pin plug early in 1994, the rest followed later that year.

EvoScan Supported Vehicles:
1) Supports ALL 1994-2006 USA/EUROPEAN/JAPANESE Mitsubishi Vehicles.
Mitsubishi Evo 4/5/6/7/8/9, Lancer, Eclipse, FTO, Galant, VR4, Colt, Mirage, Mivec Mirage, L400, L200, 3000GT, Pajero, Shogun, Space Runner, Grandis, Carisma, SpaceStar, SpaceGear, SpaceWagon, Sigma, Diamante, Outlander, Montero, Magna, Expo, Verada, Delica, Dodge Stratus, Eclipse, Eclipse GT/GS.

[Technikhaus]

Ahh sweet thanks, I couldn't find that on their site.. Will order one when I get the money

[Supplanter]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... torquefree

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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ELM327-v1-5- ... 0384844533

Unless you have a sh*t phone.

[PHIL069]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ELM327-v1-5- ... 0384844533

Will this work with MITII + MITIII?
I tried using the OBDII at my work and it wouldn't communicate with my FTO!

[Bennoz]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ELM327-v1-5- ... 0384844533

Will this work with MITII + MITIII?
I tried using the OBDII at my work and it wouldn't communicate with my FTO!

No, I've got one of them I use for my folks car with the Torque app, & I've tried it on the FTO, didn't work.

The FTO is a hybrid MUT/OBD protocol. Couple of people have figured it out, Evoscan being one of them. Rich Batty in the UK also figured out how to reprogram certain FTO ECU's, but again that was using Evoscan & some other bit of kit they made up.

[payaya]

Update…..

- Re-routed reservoir pipe.
- Re-flushed the radiator again (correctly this time)



Pulled thermostat out, dropped coolant, 500ml radiator flush & topped up with water, went for a drive and got it all nice and hot.



Dumped water & flushed the entire cooling system again except this time I used an air compressor.

I'd borrowed a home made tool from a mate to flush the system with water and compressed air.
Basicly it's a cone shaped thing, one end plugs into a garden hose and has a compressor plug on it running up the centre, the other cone shaped end (you get the idea)

Turned the garden hose on, hold onto it like hell and put it on what ever you want to flush, plugged in the air compressor air for a few seconds and woosh out comes all this shite and crap rusty flakie type stuff, again and again removed air, allowed it to fill up with water, plug in air…… wash and repeat.
I can't believe the amount of crap that came out of it, seriously what retard would neglect a cars cooling system for so long it gets rusty water in it.

The good news is I took it for a run today, not as long as I did the other day.
- The heater actually spits out hot air and manages to keep doing that. Before it was hot for a few seconds on high and then felt more like warm air.
- The temp gauge didn’t even budge.

I’d heard about air locks etc around the office and how to burp it. So I went up and down a steep first / second gear hill a few times for good measure, just to make sure there were no air locks in the system and too see if it’d heated up.

The temp gauge didn’t even budge again, you bloody beauty!
So far so good fellas and thanks for all your help too

Told ya locked radiator. A blocked radiator is the most common reason why car overheats. If you are at speed and your car continues to overheat you can safely say it's your radiator. No matter how much you flush a blocked radiator it will never go back to being good. A new radiator is always the answer.

[mikeey01nzl]

Cheers payaya your are so so right and I appreciate the advise.

See I thought I'd flushed it out to a point where I thought it was all good, turns out it was no where near it.
After another flush with chemicals and then an air compressor it's certainly was better and the flow rate had improved too.
Am I happy with where it's at? No not really so I will be swapping it out in the future once the box work has been completed.

[payaya]

You will never unblock a radiator by flushing it. Only way is to remove the end tanks and clean it that way.