The time has come to produce the Mopar1973Man High Idle & MPG fooler switches again.

[Mopar1973Man]

1998.5 to 2002 all truck can have high idle. If Smarty Programmer can enable high idle on all 1998.5 to 2002 trucks regardless of transmission configuration. All I can say is the dealer is not very educated about these vehicles.

[Royal Squire]

I agree 

[Royal Squire]

I agree 

[tbo1450]

I work at a dodge dealer. They definitely can enable high idle for u. its easy to do. They don't need the vin. Hooking up the old drb scan tool to the truck. Getting the software p/n on the pcm. Run the tech tools program to see if it's up to date. If it is, just gotta enable it with the drb. 3 cyl high idle enable is under engine then misc menus on the drb scan tool. Tell them that. They will know what ur talking about. 

[joecool911]

We should rent out a smarty for DIY. Like $50. Probably cheaper than a dealership visit. Maybe we could find an old one somewhere?

[Mopar1973Man]

1 hour ago, joecool911 said:

We should rent out a smarty for DIY.

 

We discussed this last year but never had the product in time. So it might be a great idea for BoD to discuss and see if we can raise the funds to do such. (Time to head to the BoD forum...)

[notlimah]

http://dieselautopower.com/smarty-s-03-rental-sr-s03a/

[tbo1450]

if the pcm is not updated to the lastest software where the high idle is. will the smarty be able to still activate it? 

 

I keep saying PCM its located in the cummins ECU.

Edited September 19, 2016 by tbo1450

[notlimah]

The Smarty will load the latest software and enable high idle.

[Ilikeoldfords]

I just used the Diesel Auto Power rental when I did mine. You pay the rental fee, they send it to you with a return label, you do your flash and play around a bit, then return to stock and send back to DAP. Pretty easy set up. Maybe there is a member here that has a smarty already and wouldnt mind making some cash by renting it out once in a while? Just an idea.

[Mopar1973Man]

Just to show progress... I've got a bag of parts and @Me78569 has got a bag of parts. So now I'm waiting on the circuit boards to be produced. Sometime around mid October we'll have circuit boards in hand. 

[tbo1450]

I just got my high idle kit in the mail, Very well made. I wanna install it in the overhead console, but i def dont want to cut it up to extend the wiring. Mike do u have a p/n or website for the connector at the switch. i would like to make a extended harness for it. Thanks 

[Me78569]

I will have to dig it up, but it is a standard 8 pin molex used in computers etc.

[tbo1450]

thanks!!! me78569  im sure thats all the info i need..

[Me78569]

mouser pn 

female side 39-01-2080

 

male side 

39-01-2021

 

 

then you will need the pins for them I think

[Hawkez]

On ‎10‎/‎1‎/‎2016 at 6:29 AM, tbo1450 said:

I just got my high idle kit in the mail, Very well made. I wanna install it in the overhead console, but i def dont want to cut it up to extend the wiring. Mike do u have a p/n or website for the connector at the switch. i would like to make a extended harness for it. Thanks 

I'd love to see you make one of these.  I'm interested in the same thing.

[notlimah]

Like this? https://mopar1973man.com/cummins/articles.html/24-valve-2nd-generation_50/51_engine/high-idle-switch/mopar1973mancom-high-idle-mpg-fooler-overhead-console-installation-in-2nd-gen-vp44-cummins-r416/

[Hawkez]

18 minutes ago, notlimah said:

Like this? https://mopar1973man.com/cummins/articles.html/24-valve-2nd-generation_50/51_engine/high-idle-switch/mopar1973mancom-high-idle-mpg-fooler-overhead-console-installation-in-2nd-gen-vp44-cummins-r416/

That is how I would like to do it, but the current model doesn't have a long enough harness to reach.  An extension would have to be made.

[Me78569]

We will likely do an extension cable in our next run as an add on.  

 

you could buy a few  of these http://www.frozencpu.com/products/3233/psu-184/8-pin_12V_Power_Connector_12-inch_Extender.html?tl=g12c34s276&id=rTniSpzx

[Me78569]

I finally got around to doing some data logging of what the high idle switch actually does.

 

Here is idle state while coolant was coolish

Timing with the fooler turned off was ~16*, flip the fooler to set IAT to 143*, and timing drops to 12.7*

 

FYI On startup with fooler turned off timing has been as high as 22* with overnight temps near freezing.  Summer timing is ~11.75-12.75*  

 

Once operating temp is reached OEM timing goes back to normal.

 

 

Moving Timing

 

Doing ~40 mph in 3rd coolant up to ~185

 

Fooler off timing was reading ~19.5* flip the fooler on to bring IAT up to 143*f and timing drops to ~17.5*