Thanks! It paired right up with no issues, but it only reads the rpms right now (that I can tell)


So far I've plugged my OBD2 in with the engine running (first mistake).

Then I went into settings and turned on Bluetooth.
Then I tapped that bluetooth bar (instead of just the checkbox) and it searched for bluetooth stuff. I guess it shows the brand first, then you tap that and it shows up as OBD2. Tap that and finally you're pairing.

Long walk for a short win :D



Then I opened up Torque Pro and scanned for codes to see if it was working OK. Killed the engine and he wouldn't start at all after that.

I panicked but turning the key all the way off for a couple of seconds reset everything and he started again. Yay!

Now I'm figuring out how to add PIDs (dials and gauges I guess?) to the program so I can see what's causing my surging. I'm using this thread and a youtube video on adding pids.






Still not sure about getting all my sensors registering. Trying to find a thread on it.

So where is this tool bag anyway?

I married her :-X04


On Torque pro I figured out how to get the PIDs in, but how do I get the PIDs to become gauges?

I married her :-X04


Ohhh Snap!!!

Heh! I couldn't pass that one up. She's being a pill lately. So a little update on the stuttering, I changed out the spring from "middle" pressure on the FPR to "Stock" pressure and the stuttering is WAY worse. Maybe I'll go up to the "high" spring next and see how he runs.

It would be nice if it would be something as simple as a fuel pump and not an entire set of new injectors along with a shiny new HPOP.

Tell her if she wants you to pay more attention to her, she simply needs to dab a 'smidgen of diesel behind both of her ears because that will drive you wild. :-X04

Glowplugger, just read most of the last 22 pages of posts. They need to make a sticky of it. Lots of good info in those pages. We probably will cross paths eventually getting parts for our trucks. Matt

mmm, Diesel... Vroom Vroom!


Skippy died on me on the highway today. Remember he's a stick shift? Well when I've been driving him for a little bit then I go to get off the road and shift into neutral I get off the gas, which *should* fall back to idle speed.

Skippy falls back to dead.


He just about sent me over an embankment. Not good.


I restarted on the fly and got into a parking lot. Then I pulled the ICP wire off again and my idle smoothed out and Skippy went back to full power again. And guess what? There was a little dab of oil inside. On my new ICP.

What the heck? I guess I'll go back to the dealership and swap it out.

:-X15




Anyway, I lived through all that thankfully. When I got home my shocks came in. I easily and quickly changed the front driver's side.

I took the airbox out to get it done. It only has 3 bolts and I've taken it off before in this thread so I won't go into it again.

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Then the top of the shock on the driver's side - it's stuck a spiral of brake tubing, but I fit a socket in there pretty easy. 15mm IIRC.

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Thankfully I was able to get an impact on it because that top nut has to travel over about 40 billion threads of bolt to get off.

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Being that the shock was crap, I could push it down with 2 fingers once the bolt was free.

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Then I just buzzed off the bottom nut...

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And the clunker pulled free!

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I lubed up the bottom one so it slipped on the bolt easy.

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Then I slipped the string off holding the shock together. It started expanding immediately. I hurredly screwed off that protective black cap on the end. Then I pressed the shock back together and slipped the plastic on again kinda caddy cornered so it held it together.

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I started by pressing the bottom back on. It slipped on easily, then I buzzed it back on with my impact. I cut the yellow plastic string, guided the bolt on the top of the shock back into the hole as it expanded, then put the new rubber bushing and metal topper on the top and impacted it on too.

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Then I re-mounted the airbox.

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Total time was about 15 minutes. I then moved to the passenger side. And couldn't figure out how to get the top nut off because of the A/C coil box being in the way.
Ugh. :-X17 Guess I'll try again tomorrow.

Any luck getting your torque pro set up? It would be interesting to watch your ICP and IPR DC numbers when it is dying on you.....

Baatzy

Sort of. I got it to show some things but I never figured out exactly what to watch or what was causing the fluctuation. My ICP ran from 430ish to 570ish and my IPR thing was in a small percent. I'll post the exact numbers tomorrow when I can look at it again. Its greek to me. :(






I got fed up with the brakes and power steering whining so bad all the time and decided to try to do the flush. First I bled all 4 brakes about 6 good pumps each and that didn't change anything.

Then I hooked up the power steering hose to flush out the power steering pump like they mentioned in the Superduty page here. I thought that was going to for sure solve my problem. Nope, still whines somethin awful.

Maybe my pump is going out. All in all I drained half a popcorn tin of fluid from Skippy today and it seemed to be for nothing.

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I know things are going to end up alright, but right now its really getting to me. I'm really discouraged. :(




To keep my mind off of all of my recent failures I cleaned up a few easier items today. The Redhead came out to help and that was a good morale boost. She handled the brake pedal and the steering while I did the bleeding/flush, then she took some tools and jumped right into work.

Remember I said that new ICP had oil in it again, just like the old one? Well to make sure this wasn't my fault I took some electronics cleaner and really doused the ICP and the connecting wire. Then I let them dry for a few hours. (Spoiler alert, it was covered in oil again shortly after starting him up again)

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I went to O Reillys and got a 50' spool of 3/8" outside diameter, 1/4" inside diameter hose. This is supposed to slip inside the door seals and make them much better when they're worn out like mine are.

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To get the seals off the door, I pulled toward the seats on the plastic cover facing the kick panel, then you just pull up on the rocker cover. Everything is on with those pull off, push on fasteners.

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Then I marked the split in the weather seal with a pencil on the truck. (no pic). Then I just started ripping off the weatherseal. It pulls off easily.


We stretched it on the ground to get it untangled and straight. I sprayed all the little holes with WD-40 to lube them up. Then I took a pair of scissors and cut a small hole at the two points that plugs were inserted in the weatherseal to pull the plugs out. Then I had these two helpers pull on one end while I shoved electrician's fish tape through the other end.

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Once the tape made it all the way through I poked it into my new vacuum hose about 3 inches.

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To keep it tied together and not pulling loose I stuck a paperclip through the outside of the hose, through the eye in the tape, and out the other side of the hose. Then I twist-tied it several turns to keep it from pulling out.

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After getting the hose started in the weatherstripping, I had this little helper pull on the tape to smoothly pull it through the entire length of the weatherstrip just like they do on the Youtube videos.

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It didn't happen. My hose kept getting stuck, breaking, and even tearing the weatherstripping at the scissored points where I had to pull the plugs out. I finally got it, but it took forever. That was the passenger side done.
It did seem to make the door close much tighter, but it made the top of the door buckle outward noticeably. I guess I'll try to find some replacement stripping in the future.


While I did all that, The Redhead took all the door panels off, scrubbed any remaining dust out of them, and installed new Kicker speakers in all the holes, tossing the old factory speakers that broke up and hissed so bad.

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These aren't "boom car" speakers. These are OEM upgrades that sound much better and just give you a richer sound without drowning you in bass, so you don't have worry about making a deposit into the "douche bag" jar when you pull up to a stop light.

It was a good upgrade, and it felt nice to sit back, listen to some tunes, and not think about bad running engines and whiny brakes. At least for today. Tomorrow's another story. :-X16

Tool bag for picking up my new PowerStroke 7.3 - And now, Skippy's Build Thread
 

whiney power steering pump is just something I have learned to live with.

there is a long drawn out procedure that involves pulling a vacume above the fluid and turning the wheels lock to lock several thousand times with the front end supported by Jack stands over a period of 18 days near but not before the summer solstice ( if you are north of the equator and do not own a weiner dog) that I performed with no reduction in whine. ( I exaggerated by bringing weiner dogs in to it) I have also replaced the power steering pump with an over priced from ford OEM reman pump, OEM steering box, synthetic fluid etc.

then I found out Ford came out with a pressure side hose that has a wire in it to cancel the whine, but by then I had learned to live with it. Maybe the next time the hose end blows apart where it connects to the pump I'll pony up the $170 dollars they wanted for it at the dealership.

edit: looks like the hose has gotten significantly cheeper in the last few years, I need to get over myself and buy one.. 1C3Z3A717AA

Yes, the whine is one of those wonderful "Ford things." But if you just did the flush, you still may have a lot of tiny bubbles (cue the song) still in there, which will keep the whine up until they dissipate.

I had the whine for the first two years I owned my truck, then the power steering pump died so I switched it out with an O'Reilly's Reman (lifetime warranty I think)back in August. So far its been good, you can just barely hear it when sitting there with the wheel hard over.

Keep your head up, eventually Skippy will give in and behave. The poor guy is probably just upset from with you for all the surgical work you been giving him. :)

You've been doing a great job with documenting everything you've done to the truck.

To address the stalling and rough running part, have you done anything with the IPR?

Baatzy

LMAO! Good job on keeping the thread, the upgrades and the humor going plugger..... you reminded me of the first time I saw the SouthWest ad on TV. They said, Bags fly free. So I posted it on fb and said, but I can't get her to go anywhere.
I wonder how she's doing now..... :D

I swapped my new ICP for another ICP at the dealership today. He still surges. I'm not sure the old "There's oil in there, that ICP is bad" adage is true.

Here's a couple of Torque Pro videos. The first one is just me sitting in Skippy and letting him idle. He does kinda ok at first, then he starts surging from 490 - 700 rpms. He doesn't die at idle, but he does get more and more crazy the longer he's running.

My finger pops in and points to the throttle gauge in the upper left corner just before I goose it to 2k RPMs to show how it falls low before leveling off.












The second is The Redhead videoing while I'm driving. Here you can see Skippy getting up to speed through the gears (1-5 on my ZF6). Then when I come off the gas from speed instead of going smoothly to 700rpm idle like he does if I dont' have the ICP plugged in, he drops down way low and if he's really in a mood he dies on me.

Toward the end of the video he almost died enough to rattle the engine and dim the lights.

EDIT: Nevermind. Dearest daughter didn't press the right button and only caught 5 seconds of video. I'll post another one soon. Does anything look weird in the above video?