09 f350 cummins

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gwhammy

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I finally got my 09 home and running. The truck has 91,000 miles on it and had a new rebuild on the trans right before the motor broke. I've driven it maybe three or four miles and the transmission seems to shift great without tuning it. The tow haul works also. Is there a reason to have to have a program written to change it? I have the programmer just haven't hooked it up to get a down load and send in.
 
There is a guy on facebook fummins pages that everybody says gets them dialed in perfect, randy gilham is his name I beleive. If your happy with it then maybe leave it? I know when I did my swap nobody could get them dialed in for dd/tow/wot. You had to pick what you wanted it dialed in for and that's what you got.
 
I've drove it a few miles but putting a bed on it to get it licensed and then figure what I want to do with the trans. Another problem I've run into is bleeding the power steering. I've looked it up and tried the lock to lock and pumping the brakes at the same time but still squelling and doesn't have any power when you first fire it. Is there a secret to this?
 
gwhammy said:
I've drove it a few miles but putting a bed on it to get it licensed and then figure what I want to do with the trans. Another problem I've run into is bleeding the power steering. I've looked it up and tried the lock to lock and pumping the brakes at the same time but still squelling and doesn't have any power when you first fire it. Is there a secret to this?
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Assuming your lines are hooked up correct? I used the Cummins pump, ran through the ford cooler and never had an issue getting it bled. Maybe I got lucky
 
thatguy69 said:
Assuming your lines are hooked up correct? I used the Cummins pump, ran through the ford cooler and never had an issue getting it bled. Maybe I got lucky
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I did the same thing on mine with the same result.


gwhammy said:
A mechanic friend of mine put this together. Can the lines hook up wrong and cause a problem?
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Trying to recall from memory but I believe the fittings are all the same and could be hooked up backwards? I'm not sure what the result of that would be?
 
I'm assuming your squealing is the pump bypass opening. Leads me to beleive its dead heading somewhere but I'm far from an expert, and it was possible to hook mine up backwards.
 
gwhammy said:
I've drove it a few miles but putting a bed on it to get it licensed and then figure what I want to do with the trans. Another problem I've run into is bleeding the power steering. I've looked it up and tried the lock to lock and pumping the brakes at the same time but still squelling and doesn't have any power when you first fire it. Is there a secret to this?
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I had a similar issue and used the electric vacuum pump to assist in purging the air out of the system. The gasket was just an extra seal from a brake master cylinder cap I had kicking around, so nothing special to get it to seal.
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Another avenue for trans tuning is fumminstuning.com. They had my trans shifting great from day one.
 
Got the power steering fixed, tuning the trans now but run into another problem. It locks the security theft and won't crank the motor. It worked fine putting it together but now it locks up. We've got it to unlock a couple times. I just sent the paremeters back to the trans guy and asked him about it in the message. This computer stuff sucks. I'm going to put a temorary push button start on it to get the trans working right and hopefully figure out the security lock up.
 
Jacked it up and did the turn to turn and brake pump with engine off. About 10 cycles and it worked good.
 
Did you connect the canbus wires together at the ecm on the firewall? That along with yellow wire number 53 to ground should give you key power to crank.
 
You're way over my head on this. My mechanic did the whole swap for me. What's funny is it started good till we hooked up the sct to do a transmission code change. We pulled it out and put it back to stock and it started once. One start then nothing. The truck has the tune put back in, can't remember if it started or not. I jumped the starter to get it running again to get a test run.

The test run on the trans was sent to DCS and I think I'll call them tomorrow afternoon to pick there brain. I thought I read somewhere that the sct x4 could program out the lock out mode.
 
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gwhammy said:
You're way over my head on this. My mechanic did the whole swap for me. What's funny is it started good till we hooked up the sct to do a transmission code change. We pulled it out and put it back to stock and it started once. One start then nothing. The truck has the tune put back in, can't remember if it started or not. I jumped the starter to get it running again to get a test run.

The test run on the trans was sent to DCS and I think I'll call them tomorrow afternoon to pick there brain. I thought I read somewhere that the sct x4 could program out the lock out mode.
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Just seeing this. The only time I have triggered the anti theft with mine was when I tampered with the cluster, or after changing parameters with forscan. I would try to make sure everything is back to stock electronically. Im guessing the SCT flashed a identifier that was stored locally on the device rather than one from the truck.
It might not be a bad idea to get forscan and look at things to make sure it doesn't flag anything.

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The truck had been deleted when I bought it. The program in the sct has to have the three egt probes hooked up to work. Just plugged in to show resistance. Did that and no problem now. Doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Already got the sensors and putting another tune in it today. This is the tuner diesel conversion sells with their kit so that's what I used. This computer tuning is not my thing.
 
gwhammy said:
The truck had been deleted when I bought it. The program in the sct has to have the three egt probes hooked up to work. Just plugged in to show resistance. Did that and no problem now. Doesn't make much sense to me.
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I guess you can thank the EPA for that headache then.

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Tuning the transmission now, haveing trouble getting the od and lockup set. I'm wondering why these don't have a OD lockout like most transmissions. Pulling heavy with a trailer it would be nice to have lockup direct on roads you never get over 50 or so on.
 
Getting the transmission real close, I'd like to shut off some of the idiot lights and exhaust cleaning it's always showing on the dash but Cummins Conversion say they don't do that. What needs to be done and who tunes this stuff out. I appreciate all the help.
 
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