Looking for a Scan tool

[American Eagle]

Where can I get a scan tool for my coach. I have a 1999 American Eagle on a sparton chassis. Cummins isc 330 engine. I have a check engine light on and can't run the engine for more than 1 minute. Then it just dies. Thanks

[American Eagle]

Where can I get a scan tool for my coach. I have a 1999 American Eagle on a sparton chassis. Cummins isc 330 engine. I have a check engine light on and can't run the engine for more than 1 minute. Then it just dies. Thanks

[porscheracer]

http://www.savesave.com/md200.htm

NOT cheap!!!

[moisheh]

Silverleaf makes the VMS PC that will work with a laptop. Howevere I am not sure if a 99 engine is "electronic". Perhaps someone else will chime in.

[chasfm11]

I have VMSpc and think it would meet your need at half the price. Assuming that you have access to a laptop, VMSpc plugs into the diagnostic port on your chassis and captures all of the fault codes, providing some short English information about them. In your engine shutdown case, it should at least give you a starting point. It probably does not have any more advanced troubleshoot aides that the more expensive tool suggested by Norm does.

We run VMSpc on every trip because, in addition to capturing the error codes, it provides more monitoring capability than the dash instrumentation, a least on our RV. We also run Street Atlas GPS program on the other part of the screen. The combination of the costs of the two packages to run on our existing laptop was just a little more than many pay for a GPS alone.

It works for me. BTW, here (VMSpc) is the link to VMSpc but there are other places that you can buy it. "Buy it" is for the cables to do the actual connection to your chassis. You can download and play with the software itself for free.

[American Eagle]

HI and yes it is electronic. Runs when it is running by wire. Thanks

[American Eagle]

Wanted to update on the problem. We had a local truck place hook up there scan program and found out a oil sensor was bad. It motorhome had great oil pressure but the computer shutoff after 1 minute. Still going to get a scanner for the unit though. Thanks for the advice.