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  1. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Im out of town for another week but I'll take a look when I get back. So far the only thing I've tossed up on the screen that didn't work was the fuel usage/mpg stuff. I've not looked into if it's just not available or if it's just borked. I don't know if I tested EGT but all the other stuff...
  2. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    I suggest taking a close look at the available space behind each kick panel. There's room, but mounting locations are a consideration (especially on the passenger side). I have a 6-gang behind each kick panel (Still haven't mounted the passenger side permanently, it's pretty tight...
  3. Third From Texas

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    Yep. I tapped 12v at the PDC, ran a wire (in a plastic loom) thru the forward most body panel Then I added a 6-gang fuse block screwed onto the firewall on the driver side behind the kick panel. Handy for future additions, but the main goal was to fuse protect the Bluefire...
  4. Third From Texas

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    Yeah, I got a popup stating: "Cannot load Injector Trim Calibration from the ECM." I'll have to doink around with it tomorrow. As I said, the Trainer also runs that same error msg (although I only played with one engine in the trainer).
  5. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    I did get a backup made. I tinkered with the Trainer before attempting anything just to be sure. Interestingly, in the trainer it didn't get a snapshot of the injectors. And the same thing happened when I made the actual replacement file for the truck.
  6. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Big old wall of unhappy red. I tried all the various combinations of Vendors, Adaptors, and Protocols. All red and dead. The only thing that flagged me was it says I have an .ini file that needs replacing. It did the same with the DPA4+ and I tld it to fix the file...
  7. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Looks like the second reader I picked up (DPA4, not a Plus) isn't talking. It has power and I can see it POST as startup (all the lights work at start) but it's not passing a signal to the PC. I'm using the known good DPA4+ cable. I have the DPA4 and DPA4+ drivers installed. And...
  8. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Thanks. Will do.
  9. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    After so many wrong cables (to include the J1708 Deerborn originally sent me) and the ones I got off Amazon that were wired VERY wrong for a DPA and the one that came with my DPA4 that is also wire differently) I just wanted to be absolutely certain before I plugged something into...
  10. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    And that was likely where my assumption failed. I was looking at the 15 pin male cable end clearly shown in the documentation. And my assumption was that the J1939 end was also the cable end. And I do see the cable/receptacle clarification now (down in the Type-2 Introduction...
  11. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Except for the parts where the documentation labels the plug looks to be incorrect/mirrored. *specifically look to C & D (the CAN J1939 hi and CAN J1939 lo) *according to the document diagram (J1939 end) , C & D are not used on the male J1939 end of the cable The document is...
  12. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Appreciate it ! Thanks for taking the time.
  13. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Yeah, that's the plan. But I can't seem to confirm that the DPA4 and DPA4+ have the same pinout/cable. That's what I'm after. How is the DPA4 wired? Same as the Plus? The documentation from Deerborn indicates they are the same. But it also lists the pinouts...
  14. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Now if I can confirm the DPA4 cable pinout (not the plus) I'll have a second reader that I can pass along to someone. I'm....hesitant.....to hook it up with the cable that it came with given the alteration in the pinout. In *theory* it should be using the same pinout as the...
  15. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    OK, SUCCESS for the most part ! I downloaded Deerborn's little diag tool and it confirmed that the DPA4+ was in fact talking to the CAN J1939. So this pinout is in fact correct for the DPA4+ Next was a mino settings issue with my CAT ET software. I dug down into Utilities...
  16. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    n/a
  17. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    If the "Deerborn" document is to be trusted (which I suspect it fully cannot): C & D (which are empty on my cable) are CAN J1939 lo and CAN J1939 high Either the doc is wrong (which I suspect) or this cable is wrong (which I doubt, but it has no part number tag from Deerborn). Just...
  18. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    So yet ANOTHER $80 thrown at this on cables since nobody bit at my above request....and still cannot make heads or tails of things. I'm in $400 on this DPA stuff and beginning to think I should have just stuck with the Bluefire and looked at the pretty gauges. I ordered the above...
  19. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    OK, I had to go look at it. I remembered wrong. Under the little rubber cap is what appears to be a test light with a push buttoon. I'd never really looked at it closely before and just thought it was a two-prong port. LOL Yeah, what ever that is unscrews and behind THAT is what...
  20. Third From Texas

    Diagnostic Readers

    Can someone with a DPA4 or DPA4+ (or I'm guessing a DPA5) do me a quick favor? Can you match the 9 pin ((letters) to the 15 pin? I have the tech brief from Deerborn, and I now have three cables here in front of me and none of them are wired even remotely the same, and none of them...
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