All,
So my 2007 Silverado had a check engine light. P0446/Evap vent circuit. I have done the following:
1.) Tested vent valve solenoid 25 cycles with a 12V battery charger. Functioned correctly.
2.) Tested purge valve solenoid 25 cycles. Functioned correctly.
3.) Removed hose to vent valve. Blew into it. Held thumb over it for 60s. Air whooshed back out.
4.) Gas cap gasket looks good. I put a little silicon oring grease around it just in case.
I replaced the vent valve solenoid thinking it might be failing intermittently. Still getting the P0446. The system does not seem to have any leak, unless it is very minor (or I would have thought the pressure I blew into it would have bled off).
I am guessing it must be the pressure sensor on top of the gas tank. I don't have a scanner to read real time values on that, though. I read that the WIFI ELM 327 OBD (about $20 on Amazon) will work with a phone with app iOBD2 and provide that real time pressure value (but not sure).
Any thoughts? Buy the ELM or just put a new pressure sensor on it and see if that fixes it? It seems I can feel it over the LHS frame rail and I think it just pulls out.
Thanks in advance!
So my 2007 Silverado had a check engine light. P0446/Evap vent circuit. I have done the following:
1.) Tested vent valve solenoid 25 cycles with a 12V battery charger. Functioned correctly.
2.) Tested purge valve solenoid 25 cycles. Functioned correctly.
3.) Removed hose to vent valve. Blew into it. Held thumb over it for 60s. Air whooshed back out.
4.) Gas cap gasket looks good. I put a little silicon oring grease around it just in case.
I replaced the vent valve solenoid thinking it might be failing intermittently. Still getting the P0446. The system does not seem to have any leak, unless it is very minor (or I would have thought the pressure I blew into it would have bled off).
I am guessing it must be the pressure sensor on top of the gas tank. I don't have a scanner to read real time values on that, though. I read that the WIFI ELM 327 OBD (about $20 on Amazon) will work with a phone with app iOBD2 and provide that real time pressure value (but not sure).
Any thoughts? Buy the ELM or just put a new pressure sensor on it and see if that fixes it? It seems I can feel it over the LHS frame rail and I think it just pulls out.
Thanks in advance!