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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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![]() If I wanted to test a CKP sensor on my 1990 240, how would I do it?
I have a multimeter. What values would I look for? |
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F*ck Edgar
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Franklin, NC
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![]() Does your meter read frequency?
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Location: Rushing Lane, Scappoose, OR
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![]() https://www.volvoclub.org.uk/faq/Eng...stition_Sensor
[Response] Measure the signal while the sensor is still installed by unplugging the sensor at the cable connections at the firewall to the drivers side of the engine. Measure voltage here as the engine is being cranked. Use a low voltage setting on a digital volt meter, preferably in an alternating current setting if available in a low voltage setting. If no signal is detected, the unit is suspect. The other simple measurement is to unplug the unit (without removing it from its location behind the engine on top of the transmission housing). Check all 3 terminals for resistance or an open circuit. The new sensor measured about 160 ohms between the center lug and a side lug (red and blue wires). The black wire is the grounded shielding wire. My old defective unit had no continuity and no measurable resistance. Other thing is while cranking watch the tach and if it jumps then it's working, if not then bad. Also you could check the codes. IF it's bad the codes will say that.
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Beaverton, OR
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![]() Don't you have a fancy labscope that you could see the teeth on if the sensor was good?
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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Location: Rushing Lane, Scappoose, OR
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![]() Not much, but something. Remember the sensor is just a magnet..
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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#9 |
<Master Tech>
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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![]() I got about 0.7V AC cranking and about 1.3V AC idling. Voltmeter averaged-out the signal for me.
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: near baltimore
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The reasons this method of verifying the crank angle signal is not in the books might be: 1) An AC voltmeter was not standard fare in an automotive repair shop ca. 1989. 2) Those digital multimeters we have now vary considerably in how accurately they measure signals that are not strictly sinusoidal. 3) Test leads and connection technique can introduce unwanted signal and noise near the same level, for example from the injector flyback or secondary ignition wiring, leading to ambiguous conclusions. Your lab scope would show you something like these traces, but every lousy CPS I've had will out itself by failing to show the reasonable coil resistance when checked with the ohmmeter - when I've been able to get it to fail in a solid manner. The failures are internal connections between the fine enameled wire wound on a bobbin over the magnet and the flexible stranded cable assembly. The stresses of potting and its ability to hold up across time and temperature probably account for the infant mortality and out of box failures, and the cable sheathing break that conducts water into the core to swell it with rust accounts for most of the long term failures. ![]() ![]() I took these scope pictures when I was younger and more ignorant. In the photo, I blamed the signal variation entirely on tone ring runout, but it is mostly due to the instantaneous angular velocity of the crank as indicated by the wave period of the slots or windows. That's basically why your idling voltage was twice that for cranking -- rpm. ![]() Above is a good resistance reading using single-pin sockets pushed over the ICU pins in order to ensure all the cabling connections are included. That way I can give the cables and connectors a good shake and watch for a change in the resistance reading. ![]() Extreme measures here to catch and prove an intermittent failure. The cable was tapped in order to leave the meter in the car while it was being driven, so the act of connecting the meter would not disturb a flaky connection. ![]() Resistance reading is OK now. Remember the resistance will vary with the temperature of the sensor's winding. I've seen it as low as the 160 reported by sbabbs, I think, and over 200 as well. ![]() But 922 is way out of line. If you see it well above or below 180, give the cabling a shake. This particular one responded by going completely open when shook at the sensor end, and it was only a year old.
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#11 |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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![]() I have just repeated my test. Center wire at CKP connector. Red/yellow wire.
-0.4vAC Cranking (ignition disabled) -1.3vAC Running at idle -4.1vAC at 3000 rpms |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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![]() Last edited by ZVOLV; 12-07-2015 at 12:42 PM.. |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: near baltimore
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![]() Nicely done video. That's rare.
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#16 |
<Master Tech>
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: California
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![]() That was with my "custom" 10 foot long test leads I put together with 20/22 guage wire. I backprobed center red/yel wire underhood at connector.
I went for a drive after making that idle video and got about 3000hZ at 3000 rpms. I see a pattern! Then coming to a stop it would surge and stall. I disconnected test leads and problem went away. The ECU was getting grouchy so I stopped tampering with it and haven't had a problem since. |
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