My truck came with a chip already...I know its down by the emergency brake...Im trying to find out what kind it is and the best way to safely remove it without causing any problems...I want to see if there are settings on it...What its set at hp wise and if there are better ones out there...It was installed in 2000 so im figuring I can upgrade it for the amount of towing I do.

 

If it is a hard chip, pop the hood and loosen the 10mm bolt in the middle of the long rectangular wire harness. Keep turning until the plug is loose. Look at the kick panel, I can't remember if it was 8 or 10mm but two more bolts that you can see and another bolt that is above the bracket hold the ECM in place. Remove bolts and ECM. Now set the ECM down on a flat surface and pull chip off.

The tripower chips are similar, but western diesel's kit also had a few ball bearings in certain vacume lines and a wire harness that went some where.

A hard chip will not have settings, Tri power chips will, but they usually have another wire harness wired in and a switch mounted on the dash.

 

I Believe its a hard chip...Under the box by emerg brake is a gold square type object, Im assuming thats my hard chip? There is a plactic cover over it with a hold down bolt..I only saw 1 on my quick look..I'll look further thx.....Or is the gold thing the ecm???

 

It's the chip. the ecm is a pot metal silver color. Pull the computer, pop the chip off and put a few pieces of tape over the hole in the ECM case.

 

Its that easy??? Then I shall see how the truck really runs stock?

 

Yep, the first time they are installed is a pain because of the cosmoline on the terminals. Once you scrape all of it off, remove the factory cover and reassemble the computer you can reinstall it. Someone has already done that work for you, so you just need to pull it off and cover the opening.

 

can I pull it...check it , then reinstall it? is the comp easy to assemble?..in case I want to use another chip...But then again I'd probably leave it and just install new one

 

You don't need to disassemble the computer, the pins have been cleaned. Now it's just a matter of pushing and pulling the hard chip in and out. I wouldn't recommend doing it alot, but a few times shouldn't hurt anything.

 

You said.."reassemble the computer"

 

Only for a first time install and just to clean the cosmoline off the contacts. Your contact pins should be clean and shiny so no need to disassemble.

 

ty for the help!!!

 

Were gonna be buddies if this keeps up.

 

Thats OK...My wife says I need more friends anyway!!