ANNOUNCEMENT: EGT 13!

[Big Angry Hillbilly]

EGT 13, when it's open circuit, the sensor is bad, unplugged, not installed in your delete kit, what have you causes the truck to enter the following strategy:

• PCM Power output limited.
• A "Pull Over Safely and Shut Vehicle Off" message may display in your instrument cluster.
• A 1-hour no-crank condition.

If you suspect this is your issue, and you're stranded, try the following.

1. Vehicle in PARK
2. Parking brake SET
3. Key in the ON position
4. Open hood
5. Near the RH battery, there is a single wire disconnect. It is attached to the battery box. Remove it from the battery box and disconnect it.
6. Touch the end headed towards the starter to the POSITIVE terminal of the battery.

The truck should start. Reconnect the wire, close the hood, and check for codes. You will likely have a code for EGT-13 open circuit, over temp, out of range.

DISCLAIMER: USE THIS INFORMATION AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOUR VEHICLE IS INDEED EXPERIENCING AN OVER TEMPERATURE CONDITION THERE IS RISK OF VEHICLE DAMAGE AND POSSIBLE FIRE OR TOTAL LOSS OF VEHICLE. THE AUTHOR OF THIS POST ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN. USE THE AFOREMENTIONED INFORMATION PROVIDED AT YOUR OWN RISK TO SELF, VEHICLE, AND PROPERTY.

Hope this is of some help to folks on here. I have seen two or three posts in the last 3 or 4 days regarding this, and helped a stranded member out over the phone with this same problem.

Hope this post is useful to some, if not, most.

[rodo]

Which sensor is this in line on the dpf (or delete)? Thanks for the write-up BAH!

[Rudy's diesel performance]

The last EGT sensor in the exhaust, right behind where the DPF should be.

[pyro2nite]

Is it the brown wire with the green tracer and some kind of a plastic connector?

[drewactual]

This saved me a helluva lotta trouble, tonight..

I got distracted while changing tunes, and installed the dpf on tune w/o the dpf.. whoops.. it was idling, and I could hear the egt cycling.. I got no codes, and no problems while it was idling, but confirmed via the mini maxx I had tuned as if a dpf was present..

After re tuning, it would not crank.. I checked relays and fuses, and re programmed no less than six times.. then I got to thinking about what I had did, and recalled this thread from when I was scouting this joint..

Thank you thank you thank you.. at one point, I was thinking I fried my pcm.. that didn't last long, though, because I realized it was communicating thoroughly during programming.. this little trick saved me a helluva stressful situation..