Floyd91,

If you are as old as me, you know there are few guarantees in life. Don't give up on the chip, it makes the truck run alot better.

many, maNY GUYS ON THIS SITE HAVE INSTALLLED ONE CHIP OR ANOTHER AND HAS ZERO PROBLEMS.

You were very unluck and I still think your truck had a problem waiting to happen.

Perhaps get an experienced tech guy to help you next time, sometimes 4 eyes better than two. At 17 I once put 8 pistons in the wrong way, no oil lubrication cracked 7 of them !

 

Well I am 19 I was thinking about having one of the ford techs do it. They like to make things go faster as he said. I don't know what to do, Im scared to try putting it back in. Im scared to even have that thing near my truck.

 

Floyd91;

Sorry to hear about the $expensive$ probs you're having with the Superchips install...

Let's turn this thread into a *learning experience*.

Your post started with the fact that your truck wouldn't start after the initial Superchips install. Right there, your problems (fried wiring harness and computer) were existing.

What happened before this post began? Did the battery accidentally get reconnected? The *only* way to fry stuff is to have electrical juice connected.

My understanding is that the Superchips alone *can't* "short-out" or otherwise cause comp probs...Especially if the battery is disconnected during the install

Dude, I feel your pain.....I've fried and broken many things in my life (many more to come I'm sure!).

What turned electrical juice on during the initial Superchips install to create a short circuit (FRYING) of all your $$stuff$$?

Curious minds need to know...

 

There was no power connected at any time during the installation. I waited until everything was installed and in place before I reconnected the negative.

 

This is a weird one Floyd91...

I can't think of anything that would cause the frying of the wiring harness and worse, frying the computer...

However, *something* (electrical or static) "shorted out" at some point during the initial Superchips install.

Like I said before, *I've* fried many componets before... Don't give up on the Superchip.

 

i'm afraid I have to give up on the chip for now. As I can not afford the chip and the repairs.

 

Floyd91

I think your problem was that you disconnected the negative battery cable and not the positive one.

By just disconnecting the negative you are simply not completing the circuit. That is good but while you were installing the chip you could have given the positive side a place to ground. If that happened I believe that you did exactly what the dealership said.

I would suggest disconnecting the positive side in any future indeavors. I would have the chip checked out before trying to install it again!

 

I also thought that was a possibility, it would be very difficult to do so though, as my neagative lead is rather stiff. Oh well. I guess what's done is done, and there is nothing further I can do. So my father is going to step in.

 

Wrong.
Direct current electricity flows from negative to positive. DC current will not flow backwards from positive to negative. All you need to do is disconnect the negative cable.

 

Noelvm

Your right!

I was thinking in regards to a past experience! I was working on a car and I was tightening the battery cable nut and touched the wrench to ground. Fireworks as you may have guessed!

I realize that in that incident I didn't have the negative battery cable disconnect as in Floyd's case. My bad!

 

"Floyd91"
Anything new with your truck? Hope you have gotten it back by now.

 

Looks like you came in , low on power and screwed the pooch !

Don't worry it has happened to the BEST of us.

Bone stock your BOLT is awsome.

Maybe next year you can revisit the chip thing,but you don't need it to have a blast with your new truck : ^ )

 

Nothing new yet. The L is still there. The pcm was shippd out yesterday, Should be here today, or tomorrow. The service guy said that I will have the L by tomorrow evening pending the arrival of the pcm.