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Just installed practicel solutions high idiler. Only if i set it on high and let the truck sit over night it wont idile up and it sound like it is cycling the intake heater. If i turn it back off and then on it will work. But the whole idea was to set it so i could use my remote start or my timer box. Is this normal or should i send it back for a refund? P. S it was over 60 out when i tried it this afternoon
 
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I have the same high idler and I have never tryed to leave it on then start truck. I don't think that it was made to work that way? Just a guess.



Craig
 
Where can I get a look at a Practical Solutions high idler? Do they have a website you guys can point me to?
 
Hi Idler Plug In @ Engine

"How/where does the high idler plug into the engine?"



At the wire harness for the TPS, Throttle Position Sensor. according to the directions, Though this is the under the throttle cable linkage cover, and is the APPS connector on my Y2K (Gordon and the Service Manual cleared this up for me).



Black box and associated wire harness plugs in under the steering wheel cover.



Very good directions accompany the unit and help or questions are only a phone call away from Gordon, great guy to deal with!!!



Several alternative locations to mount the black box and the directions have a photo showing one on top of the steering wheel cover if you are not using that for something else.
 
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The PS hign idler will not work the way you want it to. It works by sending voltage to the tps and fooling the ECM into thinking you are pushing on the peddle. What is happening when you leave it on and turn the truck off is that the ECM uses this new voltage as the idle voltage.

I had a buddy that was trying to do the same thing and he tore the PS box apart and was trying to figure out were to wire in a trigger that would turn the box on so he could do it with a remote, he never got it working. He was going to try to get in contact with Gordon and see if he could help out.



If I where you I would re calibrate your TPS ASAP. You do this by unhooking the batteries for an hour then hooking them back up and turning your key to the on position (but don't start it) and pushing the peddle to the floor slowly and letting it back up slowly. That will take care of any loss in peddle response.



Hope this helps.



John
 
I don't have one of these (thought about getting one, though), but I have a thought. If instead of powering the unit with an always-hot/key-on-hot source, how about from a source that's only hot when the engine's running?



Something off the oil pressure sender, perhaps? I guess if you could find something that went to ground when the engine's running or off, you could wire a relay in with +12V and use that to supply the unit with power.



A time-delay circuit would work, too, I suppose--wire it so that 10 seconds after key-on power, the idler unit gets power. That'd probably be the hardest, and require some electronics skills.



Any of these should work--basically, get the truck started, so the TPS/APPS does its calibration routine, then supply power to the unit, so it starts doing its thing.



The high idlers my Squad used (Ford Powerstrokes) worked like this. If setup correctly, about five seconds after the parking brake was engaged (or the engine started with the brake engaged), the idle ran up.



Someone around here put plans out for the same basic thing PS supplies--maybe he could chime in here...



Other than that, does anyone know of any electrical connections/fuses/CBs/etc. that go either hot or ground only when the engine is running/not running? On my old 4Runner, the +12 (or maybe the ground) to the parking brake switch was like this. Maybe a way to tap into the oil pressure sender?



Could be handy for some other stuff, too.



--Ty
 
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