Hey guys, I have the smarty and am getting ready to do the deletes, but today my ETC light came on, is this something the delete will take care of? or something i need to take in and get fixed first? OR can i fix it? what are the normal causes?

 

The Smarty disables the Throttle valve. You can unplug the harness and leave it in place, or delete it, like I have done.

 

So strange. Lady had it when the light came on. She drove it to work then target. At target she called stating it wouldn't start. Her dad went out to jump it but he didn't even have his all clamped up and it started fine. Lights went out. On the way home I guess the light came back on with 12v charge. When I arrived I checked all connections. Everythibg was tight. Started the truck fine with a full charge. Lights went out. No problems sense........ any idea?

 

Another one of the 6.7 programming "quirks".

Remember once when I was driving on I-10 at 70+, heard a loud bang, and swore a rod had knocked a window in the block. That is how hard it hit. Throttle valve "lightning bolt" came on and it went to running rough, real rough.

Pulled over, checked under the hood, nothing out of the ordinary. Went to start, no start. Cycled key a few times, long crank session, then it fired off.

Normal operation from there on out.

No explanation for it. I'm guessing the TV had shut and maybe it backfired through the intake. To this day I'm still dont know what it was.

 

I got the "lightning bolt of death" the other day. Pulled over, killed the truck, cleared it with the Smarty and it fired right back up.

 

Oh FYI, my little incident was pre Smarty, stock 6.7

 

Only time I've seen that light was pre-delete/Smarty as well. I am sooo glad that I deleted so early on odometer wise... Glad there are smart and knowledgeable people on here to help out with such things and help prevent problems along with solving them.

 

exactly, Im a little nervous to go on vaca this week being i didnt get deletes done, however, i think ill be ok. If not, Ill call on one of my other 200 or 300k cummins to come get me haha