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.

Noise in the Axle

Nissan Altima taxi came in with noise coming from the passenger side axial.  So we end up changing the axle.

Remember top remove the tiny wheel sensor  and or have a pan ready  to catch the transmission fluid  before you pull the Axle.

Axle removed

Make sure you have everything on the new Axle before you  install it.

Done and all ready to go.  Don't forget the wheel sensor and  top off the transmission fluid before you finish the job.

Friday Night .....

This was the first Friday night I ever worked.  Hmm I think it went pretty well.  Learned another simple reminder today.  Sometimes a little slower is the fastest way.   Finding the best route or creating your system will allow you to be the most efficient at what you do.  For example on a oil change today.  I removed the drain plug then the filter.  My next move was get the oil from the back.  Brought oil to the car then realized I forgot the filter.  I go back to get the filter and I realized how I wasn't efficient.  Something so simple took me two moves.  Come on Ray....  So I fixed it.  From now on I get the oil and the filter at the same time.  Efficiency is very important in this industry and hopefully I can become a very efficient person.
On the side note..  Today is my daughter's  1st birthday.  Wow that was fast.  Happy Birthday Jordin !!

Towed in no start.

Nissan Altima Hybrid towed in with a no start.  Code P0A7A ... Bad inverter.  Removed and replaced the bad Inverter (pictures below).  Add coolant with vacuum feed.   After installing the new inverter we remove the ground on the 12v battery to reset all the codes.   Took it for a test drive to reset any other codes left behind.

Drained inverter coolant before starting.  Also remove the Service Plug for safety.

Make sure you remove all connectors and hoses before you remove.

Remove all brackets and place in new inverter before you install.

Another Gen 2 Prius taxi came in a while back with a malfunction on his instrument cluster panel (black out).  We gave him a loner unit that we installed while his original was sent out for repairs.   He came today because his origanal unit was ready for installation.  Stripped the dash from drivers side to the passenger side.  Thank you Rick for teaching me the way.

Remove all pieces from left to right to get to the center console.

Center console removed from the car and unscrew unit and replace with  rebuilt one.

Complete after new instrument cluster was finish.  Thanks again Rick.

Haha we figured you out.

A Gen 2 Prius came in and said the center console power plugs was not working.  We checked all the fuses ... and all was good.    We took a mirror and found a penny inside the cigarette lighter plug    (picture down below).   Coin stuck inside did not allow the chargers to go totally in so it couldn't power up.  Fix... Remove coin and all good.

Our little mirror showed us our little copper friend  the penny inside the power  plug.

Replaced the 12v battery on Prius. (note) must attach memory saver device in the DLC (data link connector) to avoid losing car memory.



Also remove and replace Nissan Altima hybrid battery.  View pictures below.  We used a rebuilt Camry HV Battery.  Must remember to remove the dc dc converter from Altima HV battery to put into the rebuilt Camry Battery for the HV battery to work properly.

Inside the Nissan Altima's trunk

Old HV Battery next to rebuilt HV battery

DC/DC Converter from Altima must be transferred into Camry HV battery to work  properly.

Empty spot is where the DC/DC converter needs to go.

Swap completed and done.