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I have had a major problem of the engine stalling or dieing every time i would turn on my HID's with the DP Tuner installed, truck would not miss a beat with the DP uninstalled.
I have 5 pairs of HID's installed, headlights (hi and low beam), 6- 6" Hid's in the bumper and now 2 6" backup lights and have tried all of the myths!! relays,grounds,passenger side battery, relocating ballasts, short heavy gauge grounds, heavy gauge power wire ect.ect... I learned to live with it and turn on my headlight before i start the truck.. (most of the time) big pain in the *** when you hit your hi beams and the truck dies and i would have to put it in neutral and restart while driving down the road. until today when i wired in two 6" Hid backup lights and tied them in so they come on when i put the truck in reverse, well guess what.. the truck died every time i put it in reverse.. It is the RF that is interfering with the unshielded ends of the F-5 cable allowing a large amount of RF to interfere with the PCM and IDM and killing the engine. I took the F-5 cable and installed 2 Ferrite beads on it right before it entered the PCM. Guess what? no more stalling. no ck engine light, no water in fuel light, no more anything. I can turn on all 5 pairs of lights at the same time with the truck running and not even 1 hickup at all. the Ferrite beads that i used are like these ones:
I use them in my line of work all the time on cat 5 cables to suppress RFI on wireless back hauls and wireless Access Points on transmission towers. after running a spectrum analyzer in the cab of the truck i found that as soon as i energized the HID's they omitted huge amounts of RF in a wide range of frequencies. Figured I would give it a shot and it worked!
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00' F-350, ( LIVE TUNED) DP Tuner, GTP38R, AFE II intake, , MBRP 4" straight piped ex, 6" superlift, 37" Toyo M/T's on 20" diamo's 17 Karat's, 238cc DI Mini-Me's Hybirds. (2) backup camera's, and alot more i am forgeting....
I have these to install as well. Thought I had it fixed but fogs started making my abs light come on. Funny you posted this, I am installing mine tomorrow.
__________________ Mark - 2001 F350 4x4 CC
1995 f350 sc 4x4
1979 f150 4x4
I have these to install as well. Thought I had it fixed but fogs started making my abs light come on. Funny you posted this, I am installing mine tomorrow.
are you installing the HID's or beads? if you need some PM me your address and I will send you a bead!
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00' F-350, ( LIVE TUNED) DP Tuner, GTP38R, AFE II intake, , MBRP 4" straight piped ex, 6" superlift, 37" Toyo M/T's on 20" diamo's 17 Karat's, 238cc DI Mini-Me's Hybirds. (2) backup camera's, and alot more i am forgeting....
I've been dealing with this issue as well and while it was maybe 30% of the time, it's been enough of a concern that I would pull over to turn on my headlights so that I wasn't moving at all. I'll be ordering these later today if I can't find a pair in my stash of spares.
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DP Tuner and HID'S
) DP Tuner, GTP38R, AFE II intake, , MBRP 4" straight piped ex, 6" superlift, 37" Toyo M/T's on 20" diamo's 17 Karat's, 238cc DI Mini-Me's Hybirds. (2) backup camera's, and alot more i am forgeting....
What lead you to the ferrite suppression beads?
,OEM HD 4R100, DP F-5 w/60E/80E/60T/Decel, EGT/Tranny Temp/Boost Gauges on Pod, Black CPS, MBRP 4" turbo back, 6637 and zoodad holes, 6.0 31Row Tranny Cooler, External Tranny Filter, Hutch/Harpoon with pre-pump filter, Oil Crossover, RiffRaff plenum inserts & IC Boots, RiffRaff CCV delete, RiffRaff AIH Delete, Wicked Wheel, IH Bellowed Up-Pipes, RiffRaff Frx, Firestone Air Bags, pulling a 10K # Cougar 324RLB 5th Wheel
Jeff 
