New Life for a truck passed its prime

[keniff]

sweet. just get you a small roll of header wrap and wrap where it's melting the loom.

[flattopwill]

Here are the pics and vids if anyone missed it. Thought id start a new "completed" thread so a few more would see it. http://www.ls1truck.com/forums/lsx-t...tml#post368933
We got the trans running good and besides the 1-2 shift issue it has no problems but my check engine light came back on. Its a code for the pressure manifold switch. I dunno what it is now. I cleared it and if it comes back I will investigate further. I guess if there is still a problem with the pressure manifold switch then it could be the culprit for my 1-2 shift issue. Besides that it drives fine so I almost want to ignore it. One weird thing I noticed tho, after I cleared the code I didnt have my hot starting issue anymore. Atleast, not for the next 3 times I started it hot. Probably unrelated but time will tell.

We hooked up the cruise control and it didnt work. I realized why a couple days later. We tapped into the brake signal wire to show the TAC when the brakes were applied. Well, apparently the TAC needs to see the resistance from the light bulb before it will act properly. I have an LED bar for tailights so it saw no resistance. I will wire in a bulb and socket before the bar and then it should work.

BTW, I got this "hot starting problem" on video today.
The first time it barely catches itself and continues idling.

The second time it dies like normal and I have to restart it.

BTW, the tach was not shot on purpose it just happened to be in front of the camera when I was shooting. If it helps yall then good.
Any ideas? Someone else said tune needed adjusted.

[flattopwill]

Cruise control works. Big thanks to 93blackbeast and my buddy Tim for that.
I have a P1810 dtc that wont go away. Dont even know what it means even after I looked it up online.
Truck drives great. Been driving it nearly every day. On my 3rd retune from Nelson and I think its gonna take a couple more before its done. Im using the truck to haul my other toy to the track 3 hours away. Ill report on how the truck does but I have no doubt in it.
The other toy....

[keniff]

sexy toy.

ive got 600miles on mine and its not fully tuned (it wouldnt scan) i DD mine bc its my work truck. i have no doubt in mine either. isnt it awsome that you built your truck, not paid someone to do it or bought someone else completed LS swap

[flattopwill]

Ya, it makes you feel confident in driving it and confident that when something does break you can fix it because you put it together. I just wish I could tune mine myself because thats pretty much how you have to work on these things these days. I had my first experience with hptuners yesterday. 93blackbeast came by to help me with some things and we plugged in his hptuners to use as a diagnostic tool and that thing is pretty cool.

[keniff]

yeah, i have EFILive scan cable but it's poo bc i can't tune anything lol. im afraid id blow my truck up.

[93blackbeast]

Yea, I was glad to see we got the cruise working...that drive to the track would have been a pain with your foot on the pedal the whole time

Let me know when you get those powers AC plates and we'll throw some cold air at that beast!

[flattopwill]

Ya the drive through Tulsa was great. The only problem I had was the sh!!tty Oklahoma roads beating up my old truck. Hit a blind pothole at about 60mph and hit was so bad I pulled over to make sure everything was ok. The cruise was definitely a lifesaver.

Something is still not 100% right with this trans though.
1.After driving ~5+ miles with the converter locked it starts acting funny like randomly taking 4th gear away and still locking the converter. Or when I slow down and then take off again it shifts abruptly and then locks the converter in 2nd and then again in 3rd while accelerating.
Another weird thing is something must not be hooked up correctly because I can touch the brake while cruising down the highway and it never unlocks the converter.
2. I have a DTC P1810 that comes back immediately after being cleared. Im not even really sure what it is after looking it up online but it definitely has to do with the trans. All switches and solenoids have been replaced so it cant be that.
3. It still has a pause then hard shift when shifting 1-2 hard throttle.
I am awaiting (in the mail) another vss connector to hook up the other vss. Hopefully that fixes some problems.

BTW 93blackbeast, remember how the converter wont lock when the cruise control is selected OFF? Well when I get symptom #1 it leaves the converter locked...