EuroVan Manual Swap Check Engine Light Hack 

This is huge for the Eurovan community. Making it that much easier to decide on a manual swap and not having a CEL or the ABS / ESP issues.

I don't even have a Eurovan but really appreciated your efforts here. Great work and great result!

That's an impressive and elegant solution. Reverse engineering, hardware hacking, 3D design, and 3D printing. A hell of a project!

Merry Christmas

Fun little video, was cool to see the process after seeing the post on twitter! Merry Christmas Dean!

Guys like this are the true inventors of the world. I feel when these types are given the right opportunity, they can problem solve almost anything. Amazing work here!

You're not Smart.... You're a fcuking genius. The mental, technical and physical ability to do this is beyond me & 20 of my closest friends...and 3 are mechanics!

Oh yeah, some good old hardware hacking! Merry christmas Dean!

Looks great! I really like the custom enclosure. For the folks talking about relays v resistors. The really does a nice job of acting like a coil simular to a solenoid. If I come across the need for this hack. I probably would do the very same thing. You did a great job showing the pin outs and wire colors. Again if I found myself doing this, I think I'd just shorten the harness and wire directly. The PCB idea is good. And maybe a guy could just have the terminations labeled, and then there would not be a need to buy harnesses and alter them. From a production standpoint, this would simplify your build. Thank you for laying this out.

this is great!!! from the eurovan community!!! thank you much! especially me. living in cali about to do a 6 speed swap.

Happy to watch new stuff on your channel. Useful and awesome as usual. Tanks for sharing 🙏👌

Cool stuff, i do it all the time at louetta automotive now sun automotive in houston texas. L1 and L2 master technician i make electronic repairs and parts and my own test leads, it’s always been my forte, it is basically like mechanical logic gates. Good job, i like hearing your solutions to issues similar to mine. Keep up the awesome work man.

Amazing video! Thank you for all the work you put into designing and implementation.

I just installed one of these emulators on my Eurovan when I did a manual trans swap, and it worked beautifully. I probably could have figured out my own setup based off the amazing notes that have been posted, but I figured after all the work done to figure this out for community I would buy a kit. It was truly plug and play, everything just worked and I'm driving my beloved van with a manual transmission. Its a much more enjoyable vehicle now, and how these should have came from the factory. Highly recommend. Thanks!

Simply mesmerizing to watch you work, the precision and attention to details is amazing. Thank you. Thumbs up:)

One of your best videos yet. I have seen them all. We have all the same tools... Hahaha

Just here to say you are a very gifted and brilliant person.

What a massive hack! Cool! 👍

Hi Dino, Been a fan for years. Wear my HAck a week shirt all the time

Exceptional work mate

Merry Christmas, have you gotten any snow this year ? I enjoy watching your videos.

This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing

Dino - AWESOME HACK!! After successfully converting a 1995 EV Camper to Manual a few years ago on my own, I'm contemplating doing the same thing with our 2002 EV Weekender which has a fried 4spd AT, so I'll contact you later to buy the kit. But first we need to fix and sell our (another) 1995 EV Camper with an Automatic. It's only got 130K and shifts perfectly into Reverse and forward through 1-3rd gear perfectly, then tries to slam into 4th gear and instantly goes into limp mode until I reset DTC 00596 (no other codes so I think it's wiring related, not trans related). I've replaced the Valve Body ribbon cable, and all the Solenoids and I'm inclined to think it's either the Trans. Control Module or the wire harness from the TCM to the Valve Body. The TCM looks very clean inside and nothing appears burnt or water-stained so I'm leaning towards Wire Harness or connector. I can't locate the Schematic anywhere and am wondering if you have one (098 Phase 1 Automatic which is an early 1995. The later 95's where a phase 2 if that makes a difference). If you can offer any other advice other than sell it, that would be great. I'd like to get it running in all 4 gears before we sell it since it's an awesome Camper in good condition. Thanks in advance! Tom

Thanks that's awesome

When old dogs try to learn new tricks...

Nice hack! Maybe I missed something but if you're just using the coils in the relays as a resistor why not replace them with resistors? Wouldn't that save a lot of space?

Thanks brother

How did you manage to start up The engine if there is a D position jumper wires fixed? If i leave it as on N position it would work as well?

You can't turn this all off with a VCDS? Amazing solution by the way, very creative.

The 01P/01M Solenoids have coils inhume. The relays you are using to simulate are not duplicating a 'resistance', they duplicate a Coil. Analyze the transmission Solenoids for coil inductance, substitute a coil with same inductance and you should be good to go... without the bulky relays....

Where do you live with such awesome wildlife sounds chirping and howling in the background?

Could probably just buy some inductors instead of relays, and could use a wiring enclosure from home depot that will be weather resistant. can drill holes in them and use strain relief from electrical department

How did you do this ? " I thought of someone smarter then me and I thought, how would he do it " Gene Hackman~

Good job where do you learn to do this very cool

Wait! When using a MT, you always have to shift. So, does that mean that whenever he shifts to D, R, 1,2,3, there's a corresponding switch that tricks the ECM that the transmission is in that gear?

I haven’t got into the 3d printing process which i will like to soon

I am nearing completion of an 02G swap into a 2002 weekender and am interested in your emulator. I have a couple other questions if there is any way for me to contact you.

Couldn't you just remove the tcu and use vagcom to recode to manual mode?

Have you ever thought about medical school and brain surgery as a future career?

Can you share the 3D printing project file with us?

Will this work for a jetta ? 2004

how o i message you? lookin for a schematic.

Do they not make a manual trans for that van why use the automatic trans? And why didn't you just find or make your own manual swapped chassis harness and use a manual ecu for the correct programming?

Ingenious, but I wonder if the beaurocrats in charge of vehicle inspections would pass it. I think in the US some jurisdictions might consider this hack a "cheat device" which is stupid

Wouldn't be easier to just put in the manual TCM

Black is brown, brown is black...

Why not just do a TCU delete, (manual trans cars don't even come with them) hit the junkyard or eBay find a Volkswagen with a 5-speed grab the ECU and BCM and a Tech 2 am do a little programing. . I'm pretty sure the hardest part was cutting all the holes for the clutch and the shifter. LOL

Why not just flash/program the computer to a manual? Much easier than all this wiring.