First time my truck has broken down on me!

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Well I experience my first truck break down since I've bought my truck a yr ago. It started up just fine this mornin as usual. Get to work which is 7miles away. It sat there till about 2pm when we were goin to lunch. Opened the door and noticed no lights were on. Put the key in the ignition and no annoying chime! Glad the chime was gone but meant it had no juice in the batteries haha. Batteries were totally dead. Took one battery out and put it on the charger while we were at lunch. Got back and put the other battery on the charger. After work put the batteries back in and cleaned all the batt connections. Truck fired right up. Checked alt and was putting out just fine. Went to my chiropractic appointment. Took them 15min to finally see me. About 20min later I get out to my truck, batts dead all the way again! Call my brother and he brings jumper cables. While we were checkin everything I noticed a sensor in line with the gpr's on the turbo pipe. Its got a large ground wire goin from it to a ground on the driver side head. And another wire from sensor to one of the gpr's. The sensor base was glowing red. So found the prob, gprs are stuck drawing juice. So looks like new relay. There are two relays, does one of those stancor relays replace both or do I still need two stancors to replace both stock relays?? What is this sensor on the turbo tube? Its only got one place where the wires go, held on with a nut.
 

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Ok Im actually answering my own question here :innocent:sorry. Well that sensor I was talkin about is actually the AIH. Guess I will have to do that mod unless you guys think I need it? I do live in ks and it does get really cold. Coldest we had so far was -9. Thats what was glowin red. I also said before I have two relays (solenoids). They look the same but you only replace one. Whats the other one then?
 

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Sounds like the AIH shorted out. It's just heating coil. For now.. just disconnect. It has nothing to do with your truck starting.. or not starting.

It's there to heat the intake air.. during a warm-up.. so the engine won't be polluting the air.. and contributing to Global Warming.:sly

Mine's been gone for Years.

Joe
 
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Sounds like the AIH shorted out. It's just heating coil. For now.. just disconnect it at from the GPR. It has nothing to do with your truck starting.. or not starting.

It's there to heat the intakle air.. during a warm-up.. so the engine won't be poluting the air.. and contributing to Global Warming.:sly

Mine's been gone for Years.

Joe

Thanks Joe! Yea we all have been polutin the air with our big nasty diesels hehe :evil. I've been tryin to find info on if I can remove the WHOLE relay out of my system since I will be doin the AIH delete anyways. I assume if I take it all the way out I will have some dummy lights comin on? And I see riff raff sells a plug that has threads on the inside so you can hook yer boost gauge up to? Is this a more accurate place than splicing into my map sensor??:coffee:hmm
 

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Thanks Joe! Yea we all have been polutin the air with our big nasty diesels hehe :evil. I've been tryin to find info on if I can remove the WHOLE relay out of my system since I will be doin the AIH delete anyways. I assume if I take it all the way out I will have some dummy lights comin on? And I see riff raff sells a plug that has threads on the inside so you can hook yer boost gauge up to? Is this a more accurate place than splicing into my map sensor??:coffee:hmm

watch for a PM.
 

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Thanks Big Joe! I dont know if the AIH shorted out or if the AIH solenoid was stuck. Everything I have read so far is that you take the AIH out and the main power wire and ground wire but leave the blue wire hooked up. Now if my solenoid was stuck, would this still cause a prob even if I have totally disconnected the AIH from the system?
 

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The solenoid is a switch and you have taken away the load on the switch. So it won't matter it the solenoid is there or not. They use very little power when turned on that it might take a few weeks to drain the batteries. Pull it and you have No Drain.

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The solenoid is a switch and you have taken away the load on the switch. So it won't matter it the solenoid is there or not. They use very little power when turned on that it might take a few weeks to drain the batteries. Pull it and you have No Drain.

Dave


Yea def doin that. But what I have read with my hours of research so far :rant is that it will still throw a soft code. It might even throw a CEL code if I totally remove the solenoid. I found a resistor mod you do to fool the computer. You connect it to the blue wire that you hooked back up to the solenoid for those of you who didnt have a stuck solenoid ( which I had). You go from the blue wire and install the resistor (470 ohm/2watt) then hook the other end to ground from what I've read. :doh:
 

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I am not an expert on fooling these computers, but it sounds like it will work. My guess is that it fools the computer into seeing the coil in the solenoid.

Dave
 

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