I reworked my FICM over the Holidays. I spent most of the time resoldering difficult joints. It seemed like all the difficult joints were connected to the ground plane. I re-flowed the 4 resistors that were recommended on this forum. I also reflowed something like 50 joints on my logic board.
I also added a 48k resistor as indicated on this forum...this should be giving me about 51 1/4 volts out of the power supply.
I've been dealing this cold start issue since I bought the truck in 2006. When ever the temperature dropped below 10 degrees F I would get white to bluish white smoke out of the tail pipe. This would happen even though I ran Valvoline Premium Blue Extreme 5W40. I tried 16 ounces of Diesel Clean with cetane and anti-gel (white bottle) as well as a quart of 2 stroke oil in 28 gallons of diesel. I still had the smoke issue below 10 degrees F.
My results...the truck seems to run like butter... quieter at idle and even quieter than I remember it at full power. I asked my wife to listen me start it while she's standing 20 feet from the truck...she says it's definitely quieter.
Can someone else tell me their results when they did their own FICM?
Is your truck quieter, like I think mine is?
And, does it seem much, much smoother running overall?
I also added a 48k resistor as indicated on this forum...this should be giving me about 51 1/4 volts out of the power supply.
I've been dealing this cold start issue since I bought the truck in 2006. When ever the temperature dropped below 10 degrees F I would get white to bluish white smoke out of the tail pipe. This would happen even though I ran Valvoline Premium Blue Extreme 5W40. I tried 16 ounces of Diesel Clean with cetane and anti-gel (white bottle) as well as a quart of 2 stroke oil in 28 gallons of diesel. I still had the smoke issue below 10 degrees F.
My results...the truck seems to run like butter... quieter at idle and even quieter than I remember it at full power. I asked my wife to listen me start it while she's standing 20 feet from the truck...she says it's definitely quieter.
Can someone else tell me their results when they did their own FICM?
Is your truck quieter, like I think mine is?
And, does it seem much, much smoother running overall?