What is this taped to my OBD port? 2021 Paccar

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  1. Deezl Smoke

    Deezl Smoke Medium Load Member

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    Quick back story. I'm second owner. I bought a PDI tuner for this 567 with Cummins 500E. installed correctly according to the tuner. Tuner did nothing for me except reduce the fuel mileage rather than increase it. Plus, using the gauges in the tuner, they would randomly go blank and upon restart, would not refresh. PDI service is another story.
    So started looking at the OBD port to see if a pin was pushed back or something that might cause the gauge issues.
    Found two dark pins that may be have gotten warm?
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    So removed the port from the dash plastic and found this terminator rather poorly taped to the back of it. Is it supposed to be on the port?
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  3. Tb0n3

    Tb0n3 Road Train Member

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    Fuse holder.
     
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  4. North Pole Nightmare

    North Pole Nightmare Heavy Load Member

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    2021 KW T 880,there's no connectors like that near the back of my OBD,I just looked up in there.
     
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  5. Deezl Smoke

    Deezl Smoke Medium Load Member

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    Thanks for checking on it. The way this one is taped and the dark pins make this highly suspect.
     
  6. Star Rider

    Star Rider Road Train Member

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  7. Antinomian

    Antinomian Road Train Member

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    Maybe someone spliced in a power connection for an elog? If so, it should have been wired to the ignition switch, not the OBD port.
     
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  8. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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  9. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    That was my thinking also.
     
  10. Arctic_fox

    Arctic_fox Experienced mx13 execrator

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    Could potentially be a tracker left over.from a bank.
     
  11. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    Looks like they had something hacked in that was getting warm so they hacked in an in-line fuse holder.
     
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