First the backstory:
About a month or so ago, the batteries in my 1999 died on me on a Friday night while I was getting ready to go to a job. The truck never died from the low batteries, the lights just got real dim. I made it to Walmart, and got new batteries, cleaned the terminals, and installed them. Truck fired and ran like a champ that night, on the 2 hour drive to the jobsite and back. Parked the truck Saturday evening, and did not drive it all day Sunday. Get in the truck Monday morning, and batteries are dead. Just thought it was a bad connection or something, and needed to reclean the terminals. Jumped it off, and the truck ran fine on the way to work, get there and it was idling while I was unloading the trailer and it died, batteries dead, can't even get a click out of it. Thought the altenator was toast, so I put the battery charger on it and another alternator, charged the batteries for a couple hours. Before I left for work, I started the truck, and it busted off ran like a top, but the alternator was heating up quick, so I turned it off and just left it there overnight on trickle charge, so the alternator didn't burn up. Come in Tuesday morning, start it to move it, and it is romping and clacking very bad, and barely has enough power to move itself to unhook the trailer, which brings us to the present...
So the truck sat for about a month or so, blame it on work, life, procrastination, or whatever other excuse, and I finally got me AE ordered (Thanks POWER-STRUCK), and hooked it up. Pulled P1298 (IDM Failure), and P1293 (High Side Open No. 1, Passenger side). Researched those out, and everything pointed to passenger side UVCH. Thought great got it pegged. After I removed the UVCH that was on there, I cranked the truck, and ran just like it had been so again, thought this is it. The plug was not burnt looking at all. Hooked the other harness up (Not 100% verified good, came off my brothers truck when he thought his were bad, and it did not fix his issues, so I assumed it was good. Will get a new one if need be to be sure.) Cranked the truck, and same thing, still had the valve cover off, so checked the injectors, and no oil is coming out at all, not even a drip that I can see. Was going to hook AE up again, but my laptop battery died.
I will say that AE offers so much info it's crazy, and if there is something else I need to check on it just tell me and I'll try to hook it up tonight. It was an overnight issue that popped up, and that was probably the main reason it has sat is because I was so pissed that it happened with no warning, at the time it did, but now I've got info to deal with, so I'm back on the trail.
About a month or so ago, the batteries in my 1999 died on me on a Friday night while I was getting ready to go to a job. The truck never died from the low batteries, the lights just got real dim. I made it to Walmart, and got new batteries, cleaned the terminals, and installed them. Truck fired and ran like a champ that night, on the 2 hour drive to the jobsite and back. Parked the truck Saturday evening, and did not drive it all day Sunday. Get in the truck Monday morning, and batteries are dead. Just thought it was a bad connection or something, and needed to reclean the terminals. Jumped it off, and the truck ran fine on the way to work, get there and it was idling while I was unloading the trailer and it died, batteries dead, can't even get a click out of it. Thought the altenator was toast, so I put the battery charger on it and another alternator, charged the batteries for a couple hours. Before I left for work, I started the truck, and it busted off ran like a top, but the alternator was heating up quick, so I turned it off and just left it there overnight on trickle charge, so the alternator didn't burn up. Come in Tuesday morning, start it to move it, and it is romping and clacking very bad, and barely has enough power to move itself to unhook the trailer, which brings us to the present...
So the truck sat for about a month or so, blame it on work, life, procrastination, or whatever other excuse, and I finally got me AE ordered (Thanks POWER-STRUCK), and hooked it up. Pulled P1298 (IDM Failure), and P1293 (High Side Open No. 1, Passenger side). Researched those out, and everything pointed to passenger side UVCH. Thought great got it pegged. After I removed the UVCH that was on there, I cranked the truck, and ran just like it had been so again, thought this is it. The plug was not burnt looking at all. Hooked the other harness up (Not 100% verified good, came off my brothers truck when he thought his were bad, and it did not fix his issues, so I assumed it was good. Will get a new one if need be to be sure.) Cranked the truck, and same thing, still had the valve cover off, so checked the injectors, and no oil is coming out at all, not even a drip that I can see. Was going to hook AE up again, but my laptop battery died.
I will say that AE offers so much info it's crazy, and if there is something else I need to check on it just tell me and I'll try to hook it up tonight. It was an overnight issue that popped up, and that was probably the main reason it has sat is because I was so pissed that it happened with no warning, at the time it did, but now I've got info to deal with, so I'm back on the trail.
