The Unofficial "Ask a Stupid Question" Thread

[XR7-4.6]

@Kenz , @XR7-4.6
That's helpful information. Thank you.



By "plug", you mean:

• the torque converter drain plug, or
• the rubber bellhousing plug below the torque converter drain hole, or
• a retrofit pan drain plug?

Rubber bellhousing plug

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

Stupid question. If I had my auto trans features removed in a tune after a manual swap, I shouldn’t have a check engine light, correct?

 

[XR7-4.6]

Stupid question. If I had my auto trans features removed in a tune after a manual swap, I shouldn’t have a check engine light, correct?

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No those should definitely not be showing up if it was deleted in the tune properly

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

No those should definitely not be showing up if it was deleted in the tune properly

That’s what I thought. I’ll have to reach out to my tuner.
Such a pain pulling the ecm *sigh*

 

[Kenz]

Whoever did the tune must have forgot to turn off a few things. When I finished swapping in the T45 I test drove it without a tune. It drove like absolute garbage; was backfiring and bucking really badly. Iirc it was putting out more codes than yours is showing

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

Whoever did the tune must have forgot to turn off a few things. When I finished swapping in the T45 I test drove it without a tune. It drove like absolute garbage; was backfiring and bucking really badly. Iirc it was putting out more codes than yours is showing

I’m not gonna drop names, but he’s well known in the MN12 community.
He’s gonna correct it for me, and I have to report fuel trims and some other things to get it dialed in.

 

[XR7-4.6]

I’m not gonna drop names, but he’s well known in the MN12 community.
He’s gonna correct it for me, and I have to report fuel trims and some other things to get it dialed in.

As an aside be sure to remind him to max out the max spark at low load table(that’s the SCT name for it anyway), that is very easy to miss even for the best tuners. I’m not sure why but without the automatic it defaults to that table in all drive conditions above idle regardless of measured load, which means 15° of timing at all times