3rd Generation Dodge

After reviewing around 1,000 posts on 5 different forums, I have come up empty on how to manually activate the high idle function on a Manual, 2003, HO truck. The stock “sensor driven” high idle is there, but no on has found a way to make it come on when desired. (It works automatically when the temperature is cold enough.) One person has designed and demonstrated how to do it on a Gen 2 truck, but not on a 2003. The Gen 2 solution was to lie to the ECM. There was only a two wire sensor in the Gen Two 24 valve trucks, providing intake air temperature to the ECM. Moparman73 designed a fix involving two switches and a splice into the existing wiring (see following url:…

After looking around here and elsewhere, I still haven't been able to determine when or if our trucks were first designed to run on the ULSD. But....maybe I just missed that little piece of info. ;)

For anyone interested, I've got the 04.5 listed in my signature. I've been running 2 stroke oil in her now for almost 1.5 years and 30,000+ miles. No problems at all. No gummed up injectors, no carboned up injectors, no frozen fuel in cold weather and none of the other crazy fears thrown out there about using this stuff in your fuel. What I have seen is a smoother idle and high speed operation. I've also seen about a .5-1 mpg increase in fuel mileage since I starting using the 2 stroke. I've always had a smooth and quiet 3rd generation truck also!! But the oil makes it even more quiet!!! I just got back from a week long hunting trip to North Dakota. We obviousl…