84IDI-BERTHA
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EDIT: My apologies, the truck is a 1984 F250 6.9L Has a turbo, but as far as I know that doesn't affect the stuff on the front of the motor.
How is everyone?? I haven't been on here in a while, as I was deployed again and will be leaving in a few months for another, hoping all is well while I am gone!
I have been doing research the entire day attempting to figure out a solution and only got some good ideas, but no solid fix. (might be the hours of staring at the computer is frying my brain)
I went to start my truck today and noticed that I have two issues. My first issue is that my High Idle Solenoid, there are the two wires that plug into the engine temperature gauge (not sure if that is the correct wording) when the vehicle is running it appears the temp gauge in the motor is "smoking" with a distinct smell to it. It is not either of the connectors for the wires, but the entire piece in the motor.....anyone ever hear of this type of situation???
The second, and much more important at the moment, problem is that my FSS keeps melting wires. I have been looking into this issue on oilburners, and a few other forums hoping someone had an exact fix or something along those lines.
What is happening: There are two red w/white stripe wires coming off the plug for the FSS, and feed into a connector on the passenger fender area. (I believe it is an 8 wire) On the opposite side of the connecter is a small 16ga wire that disappears into the mass of wires heading to the cab of the truck. This wire burned up one day, about 8in of it, smoking and charred to a crisp. I pulled out the little bullet connector and soldered a new wire onto it and used a butt connector to attach the new section to the length of old going to the cab........ Today it completely melted, the sleeve of the wire fell off.....replaced it with 16ga wire again and it melted a second time, progressively smoking and getting hotter until it just fell apart. I pulled the wire out, and the engine cranks, but does not fire off ---- plugged the wire in and the engine fires right up and the wire gets extremely hot to the touch. So I narrowed it down to the FSS being the issue.
I APOLOGIZE FOR SUCH A LONG IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION, JUST HOPING IT HELPS TRIGGER SOMEONE'S THOUGHTS AND IT HELPS ME OUT. HAHA
What I think would fix it: I read on multiple threads, that you can just run a wire from the FSS with a fusible link, to the fuse box. Is this true?? The other option I saw is that someone claimed the FSS can be hooked up to the Glow Plug Relay, but my plugs are one a manual switch. Will this be an issue if I try to use my GP Relay for my FSS power feed?? IF SO, what is a good fix for this problem that will NOT keep melting my wires.
Thank you for any help, I will check this as often as I can
-Brandon
How is everyone?? I haven't been on here in a while, as I was deployed again and will be leaving in a few months for another, hoping all is well while I am gone!
I have been doing research the entire day attempting to figure out a solution and only got some good ideas, but no solid fix. (might be the hours of staring at the computer is frying my brain)
I went to start my truck today and noticed that I have two issues. My first issue is that my High Idle Solenoid, there are the two wires that plug into the engine temperature gauge (not sure if that is the correct wording) when the vehicle is running it appears the temp gauge in the motor is "smoking" with a distinct smell to it. It is not either of the connectors for the wires, but the entire piece in the motor.....anyone ever hear of this type of situation???
The second, and much more important at the moment, problem is that my FSS keeps melting wires. I have been looking into this issue on oilburners, and a few other forums hoping someone had an exact fix or something along those lines.
What is happening: There are two red w/white stripe wires coming off the plug for the FSS, and feed into a connector on the passenger fender area. (I believe it is an 8 wire) On the opposite side of the connecter is a small 16ga wire that disappears into the mass of wires heading to the cab of the truck. This wire burned up one day, about 8in of it, smoking and charred to a crisp. I pulled out the little bullet connector and soldered a new wire onto it and used a butt connector to attach the new section to the length of old going to the cab........ Today it completely melted, the sleeve of the wire fell off.....replaced it with 16ga wire again and it melted a second time, progressively smoking and getting hotter until it just fell apart. I pulled the wire out, and the engine cranks, but does not fire off ---- plugged the wire in and the engine fires right up and the wire gets extremely hot to the touch. So I narrowed it down to the FSS being the issue.
I APOLOGIZE FOR SUCH A LONG IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION, JUST HOPING IT HELPS TRIGGER SOMEONE'S THOUGHTS AND IT HELPS ME OUT. HAHA
What I think would fix it: I read on multiple threads, that you can just run a wire from the FSS with a fusible link, to the fuse box. Is this true?? The other option I saw is that someone claimed the FSS can be hooked up to the Glow Plug Relay, but my plugs are one a manual switch. Will this be an issue if I try to use my GP Relay for my FSS power feed?? IF SO, what is a good fix for this problem that will NOT keep melting my wires.
Thank you for any help, I will check this as often as I can
-Brandon
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