Camry Hybrid Battery Fan Cleaning

Hybrid battery cooling fan located between the back seat and the trunk.
Unplug the fan connector then the three bolts holding down the fan.

Remove the five screws holding down the outer shell of the fan.  Next using a garden hose, spray water and remove all dirt from the fan. Make sure the fan is facing down so as you spray water into the fan,  you want to avoid spraying the power board.   After you have successfully cleaned all dirt off the fan.  Use a compressed air to dry the fan. Dry without spinning the fan because if you spin the fan too fast you may break or hurt the fan.

After the fan is dry go ahead and reinstall the fan to the battery.

Next connect to techsteam through your computer.  Go to HV Battery tab.  Then go to active test then select control cooling fan.  There you can control the speed of the cooling fan to confirm the fan is working properly.   Put everything back and go for a test drive to confirm no codes come out.

P0A3F Short Motor A

Customer came in with the Hybrid light and check engine light.  Pulled codes and got P0A3F  Short in Motor A.  Examined the 3 connectors on the MG1 and MG2.  Found bad connector and replaced with used connector and changed out a new sensor.

Replaced with new connector

Completed connector

This how bad the connector was

TP2 Power Steering Module

Customer came in with no power steering. 

Power steering module that we replaced

Located right behind the steering wheel.

Easy as removing three bolts no need to rip up the whole dash.

The Future Is Here.

Coda Fully Electric Car.  AWESOME

Honda Insight Hybrid HV Battery Replacement

First thing we did was print out HV Battery removal procedures from Alldata

HV Battery is found in the back trunk.  There is a center plate that opens for the HV Battery disable switch.

After removing the outer shell you will see this above.  The HV Battery is the unit on the right side.

Remove HV Battery with battery mount out of the car.  Insert new battery and put everything back.

Done!!!

Harvest The Stator

Brand new MG2 came in and I was responsible for removing the stator from MG2.

Remove all bolt on top except for the three bolts in the middle of MG2.

The three bolt in the middle holds the center magnet down. 

If there is no transmission fluid in  MG2..... Add transmission fluid for easy extraction.

Shell without the Stator.

Stator Harvested from MG2

Broken Water Pump

Gen 2 Prius taxi came in with a loud whining noise.  We concluded that it was the water pump.  We followed where the sound was coming from and we also noticed pink coolant all over the area.  We first drained the coolant then we remove and replaced the water pump.

All the pink coolant confirms a leak coming from the water pump.

Fixed... New water pump.

Bad Water pump.


After installing the water pump.  Before you start the car... connect  Techstream and  manually activate the  water pump  with the computer.  Do this about two times so coolant can run through before you start the car.   After starting the car use a pedal depressor on the accelerator.  As the engine runs you add coolant and make sure that the thermostat opens and the fans run about two or three times.    Erase any codes left in the car.