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OK My wife just called and my 03 just took a crap on her. She said it did the standard crank up and spit and sputter, she got a few hundred yards down the road and died. I am suspecting FICM or maybe even HPOP. It will not restart. I am out of town working right now but I was going to purchase the auto enginuity anyway. My big question will it be able to see a fault in the FICM or HPOP and will there be codes stored in the memory since it will not restart. I am going to be gone for another week but will have the AE as soon as I get back to the hotel this afternoon and order it. Oh and the truck has 220K on it and a New FICM was installed about a year and a half ago and about 25-30K ago.
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to answer the question simply. Yes the ae will read the codes, if any, that are stored in any of the mod. If there is a code that was set it should still be there. One that you will probably get is the icp circuit low, due to the trying to start it and it not starting. That one wont nessarley be your problem. When you hook the ae up check injector control pressure to see what you are getting while cranking. You have to have 500 psi for the truck to start.
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LOL I already asked that question and of course she yelled at me for thinking she was stupid LOL.
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Well I just got some developing news. My dad went up there to take a look at it for me and the batteries are dead as a hammer. I am thinking an electrical problem now. I installed the batts. 6 months ago and an alt. around that time. She said after it died when she tried to restart nothing happened at all. She said when it died the batt. light flashed 1 time and everything was dead. When they got it back to the house with the tractor it turned over real weak hit a couple of times then nothing again. Can I interest anyone in a good used 6.0L LOL.
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well if it is just the batts. are low then I would suspect a bad alt. Chances are if it died while running (and low battery charge is the reason) then the alt is bad. Cause a good alt should keep the truck running even if you took the batteries out of it. The batteries are really just used to start the truck (kind of anyways). So if you throw a charger on the batteries, jump start it, put new batteries, or whatever you do to get it started, I would have the alt tested cause that what it is sounding like might be your problem.
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well if it is just the batts. are low then I would suspect a bad alt. Chances are if it died while running (and low battery charge is the reason) then the alt is bad. Cause a good alt should keep the truck running even if you took the batteries out of it. The batteries are really just used to start the truck (kind of anyways). So if you throw a charger on the batteries, jump start it, put new batteries, or whatever you do to get it started, I would have the alt tested cause that what it is sounding like might be your problem.
My pops put a charger on the batts. today. When he comes back up to the house in a couple of days I will get him to see if it will start.
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Got a little more news, dad went up to the house today and cranked the truck. He said it started but sounded terriable and would not come off of idle. It is driving me crazy being 1400 miles away from home and my truck is sitting there broke.
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well if it is just the batts. are low then I would suspect a bad alt. Chances are if it died while running (and low battery charge is the reason) then the alt is bad. Cause a good alt should keep the truck running even if you took the batteries out of it. The batteries are really just used to start the truck (kind of anyways). So if you throw a charger on the batteries, jump start it, put new batteries, or whatever you do to get it started, I would have the alt tested cause that what it is sounding like might be your problem.