2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Smarty issue: error 14??

[BEnglish]

Smarty issue: error 14??

Is anyone familiar with this error?

I emailed the Mads folks a couple days ago, but haven’t received a response.

The Smarty is new and I locked it to my ECM when I go to choose a catcher, the unit reads “programming pleas wait” then “updating ECM please wait” the about 5 seconds later it reads “error 14 program aborted”.

I have tried it several times with the same results.

I am hoping it’s not the ECM, but I kind of suspect it is.

Any and all help appreciated.

Ben

 

[Bob Wagner]

error 14 is a communication time out(no response from ecm) Is your wait to start light working?

 

[DIESELWRKS]

bob hinted on that one. I believe if there is no wait to start light your comm with the ecm is gone. ecm may be pooed out. check this though I once had this but found out my connection was bad due the the obd port was loose wasnt' the smarty or ecm. Just a loose port kept kicking me out of a load and was stuck inbetween with no signal and wouldn't start. make sure there is a good connection on your port. could try and disconnect Neg's set for 45-1 hour and see if system resets. ??? good luck

 

[BEnglish]

error 14 is a communication time out(no response from ecm) Is your wait to start light working?

The WTS light has been acting funky since I got the truck 2 years ago. I started a thread and tried to figure it out a while back to no avail.

Sometimes it takes a full 15 seconds till the WTS light comes on and until it does the engine wont start. Sometimes it will come on right away and I can start the engine along with it. And sometimes it won't come on at all and I can start the truck right away.

I had the battery's disconnected for a weekend a while back (changing the heater core) and when I hooked them back up, the ECM was blank (took me a while to diagnose that one LOL). I took it to Cummins and they reflashed it, but said that there was some part (I don't remember what it was) that wouldn't take.

Any way, I have been thinking there has been something wrong with it for a while now and I am starting to believe this is just another symptom.

The PO had the auto trans hunt problem and got the ECM reflashed every 6 months as a “fix”. I did the wire over to the PCM trick and it fixed that problem for good.

bob hinted on that one. I believe if there is no wait to start light your comm with the ecm is gone. ecm may be pooed out. check this though I once had this but found out my connection was bad due the the obd port was loose wasnt' the smarty or ecm. Just a loose port kept kicking me out of a load and was stuck inbetween with no signal and wouldn't start. make sure there is a good connection on your port. could try and disconnect Neg's set for 45-1 hour and see if system resets. ??? good luck

The WTS flashes through the first part, then goes solid with the error 14, then goes out.

After it failed, I tried to "set it back to stock" with the same results as trying to upload a catcher but I know the smarty changed something, because before I started with the smarty at all, the WTS light wasn't coming on at all and I could start it right away, and after trying the smarty, the WTS light takes a full 15 seconds to come on and during that time I cant start the engine.

I also tried unplugging it and plugging it back in between tries to see if it wasn't the connection.