Help! Need Insight

Disconnect J1939 (or J1807) wire from back of diagnostic socket....#### canada's inspectors can work as diagnostic-mans BTW.....funny...

 

I would be a bit nervous about doing this. If they get no reading, what do they do? Maybe red tag truck on any number of pretenses. I think I'd rather go to the trouble of aquireing plug in and programming.

Dave

 

I dont know what is against law up there. I know what do you need to access Detroits ECM

DDEC I,II,III,IV,V -DDDL v5,xx or v6,xx ; Nexiq LiteLink adapter-cable
DDEC VI -DDDL v7,xx; Nexiq USBLink adapter-cable
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DDDL ->Detroit Diesel Diagnostic Link is a software to diagnose and calibrate engine

 

Better yet, disconnect the diagnostic connector completely...rewire it to an ignition coil (isolated of course) and watch their lil' 'puter go up in smoke!!!

If they're gonna #### with ya, you might as well have some fun. Just act dumb and make sure to refrain from any laughs or giggles until you're on down the road.

Ahhhh, wishfull thinking.

 

DOT inspectors are bloodsuckers…ones I punished one of them. …he wanted to check the brakes on the trailer. When he was under trailer instead of pushing brake pedal I pulled off the red knob on dashboard…)))) he’s face was covered by dust and dirt

 

This also would be interesting to find out about, from what I have heard Insight costs about $1500 a year to have on one computer.

 

For those with the ISX and ISM engines, you don't need the Insite software for the simple stuff. Cummins PowerSpec is limited (to say the least), but is free to the end user and will do most of what you need. You will still need to purchase an adapter such as Nexiq's USB-Link with cables, and obtain a free license from your Cummins distributor (in order to set parameters such as top speed, gear down protection, and load-based speed control). The process is really simple but is designed permit traceability.

However, for those with legacy engines (N14, M11, etc.) like me, you are out of luck. Instite would be required to make changes on those engines. You can still download trip information on a legacy engine with PowerSpec, but you can't clear fault codes, reset trip information, or set parameters as you can on the new engines.

FWIW, Cummins released a new version yesterday, PowerSpec 4.1.0. Google 'powerspec' and you'll find the Cummins site, then download the software and follow the process.

Hope this helps.

BTW, if someone would put me in touch with mhyn, I would greatly appreciate it. I have too few posts to pm, and the same for him trying to contact me. Guess I need to start typing...

Thanks.

 

I have a voice command speed calibration tool in my truck, sometimes. I just yell into the sleeper and bam, I have a road speed governed truck at what I want it to be. But sometimes the person in the back hears me wrong and puts in the wrong speed then things get interesting.

 

Shucks, no room in the ol' daycab for such a device. Would have to be strapped down and secured on the flatbed with the other cargo! It just wouldn't be functional with the vehicle in motion, and it sure wouldn't operate on voice commands.