If its a hose coming out of the engine block, its most likely going to be some kind of PCV hoses. On newer vehicles they direct positive crankcase pressures to all kinds of places, but its important that its not blocked off and is routed to the correct intake position, that positive pressure needs some place to go, or it will start pushing out any seals in the lower end of the engine block, such as the front or rear main seals. Thats how those seals prematurely start leaking.
These are the PCV diagrams and really the only vacuum hose diagrams I see in Service info. Sounds like they might be a bit hacky when it comes to repairs at that location.
If you can pull up live engine data, and monitor the rear Oxygen sensor voltage, or graph its voltage is better, but get the vehicle up to speed, such as getting on the highway for a couple of minutes, so the engine gets up to temperature, before you exit, give it heavy throttle so youre not running on the electric motor, this way you should be pulling on the combustion engine, and when you let off the gas pedal suddenly, the fuel injectors should go to Fuel-Cut mode and actually shut off until you slow down enough where the engine needs to return to an idle, during de-acceleration fuel cut off, the rear Oxygen sensor voltage should go full lean, meaning almost 0volts. If you have the sensor data graphed you should see the rear 02 take a dive from its steady 600-700mv to less than 200mv (or 0.2v),
my truck goes all the way to 0volts on decel fuel cut off. Its a way to check the rear 02's operations, and its the way the ECM is doing it as well, but again you are correct about a possible Cat issue. (6th diagram shows some info about fuel cut off and that P0139).
For a Cat fault, you may notice the rear 02 fluctuating at a higher rate, (0.2v-0.8v-0.2v etc) when it should be at a more steady 0.6v-0.7v range. Of course noticing some of this will not be conventional with a hybrid, since youre not always going to be running on the gas engine. But under heavy throttle it should switch over to the gas engine for more power.
The hoses you mentioned may be part of the issue here though as well, without the vacuum hoses all sealed up and routed properly, that will throw off the ECM's self test results. It may cause the rear 02 to be below the 0.6v threshold that is called for in the code criteria. Looks like another thing they may need to correct, if it wasnt like before going in to them,
The p0401 looks like the ECM measuring a reference pressure(so some stored predetermined amount) to intake manifold pressure during EGR valve closed and the manifold pressure. This test is run during Fuel Cut off of more than 10sec as well, so thats interesting, these codes are being tested for and setting for this same period of fuel cut off.
But another issue is that the wiring harness on this vehicle has been connected and disconnected how many times now. Thats not at all a helpful thing. Who knows how much the harness connectors have been rough handled, pulled and pushed on. Theres so many factors here.
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Monday, April 29th, 2024 AT 2:21 PM