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Mopar1973Man

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I had a little birdie inform me that ECM of the 98.5 to 2002 are getting hard to get ahold of and I guess one of the logic chips inside is no longer manufactured.

This is not to produce panic... I'm not 100% sure of the information but I'll get more soon...
 

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Well when you get info please pass along . Should I be looking for PCM ?
 
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Well the gent that called me and discussed the ECM stuff with me. He basically told me that the company producing the logic chip quit manufacturing it. Then rebuilder houses for the ECM out of stock. You must send in your ECM to be rebuilt. He talked to several companies and got the same info about stock.

I'm just waiting on a return phone call in the next few days...
 

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i would very interested in that info myself.
 
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I'm still hoping the guy calls back soon with more info... (Shrug smiley)
 

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Logic chip? EE 101 get some and/or gates and you can build anything. Lol

Seriously though it seems unlikely that one chip would be designed, dies built, and manufacturing processes made for one purpose. More than likely there are alternate options or even flash capable EPROM like chips. These systems are usually software driven not hardware. The amount of complexity in a pure hardware system would be crazy.

Although I could be totally wrong.
 

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any updates from your source Mike?
 
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any updates from your source Mike?

No... I never heard back from him. But still most people don't stock ECM for sale they must take in your old ECM for repair and ship back to you.
 

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We are trying to find the ECM for our 2002 Turbo diesel 2500 Ram truck also.. Anyone have any suggestions on who to contact or where to go to get the ECM sent in for reprogramming or where to find one?
 

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Called my local truck centers .. Big rig shop

They can get them but you will have to take them to your dealer to get flashed .

You can still get them from what I am told
 
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RockAuto.com has some awesome deals on reman'ed ECMs... You might want to wonder over there and check it out.
 

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I will do that thanks. Our local Dodge dealer is willing to change out for a remanufactured one, only I dont have the $1500. plus bucks he wants to do it. I have found several places with EMC's but none that are for a diesel.
 

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And if you go to rockauto here on RF you will get a discount
 
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Ok more information on ECM's I found out from another member the Cardone with RockAuto has been backing out of doing ECM repairs because of part issues. I've heard back from 2 others now about this and Cardone won't or can't repair the ECM.

As for another tidbit if you got a WAIT TO START light that is flashing or taking a long period of time to come on the memory in the ECM is failing. So ECM replacement is going to come sooner than later.

But it funny every as always check with the Dodge Dealer and you can still purchase new blank ECM's but finding someone capable of rebuilding the ECM or repairing it is nearly impossible...

As from Bob Wagner (Smarty Rep) you can use any ECM on any model according to him but I'm not sure about some of the limitations like crank sensor, etc... There is differences... I'm going to find out more and bring it back here... :naughty:
 

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Ok more information on ECM's I found out from another member the Cardone with RockAuto has been backing out of doing ECM repairs because of part issues. I've heard back from 2 others now about this and Cardone won't or can't repair the ECM.

As for another tidbit if you got a WAIT TO START light that is flashing or taking a long period of time to come on the memory in the ECM is failing. So ECM replacement is going to come sooner than later.

But it funny every as always check with the Dodge Dealer and you can still purchase new blank ECM's but finding someone capable of rebuilding the ECM or repairing it is nearly impossible...

As from Bob Wagner (Smarty Rep) you can use any ECM on any model according to him but I'm not sure about some of the limitations like crank sensor, etc... There is differences... I'm going to find out more and bring it back here... :naughty:
We've had a few customers swap out there ECM's from one 24v to another. This was so that they could run the Smarty programmer as the old ECM was having troubles being re-programmed. The old ECM was swapped out, a new one from a different year was installed. MADS electronics supplied the proper stock file and the programmer then worked with no issues.
 
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Thanks for confirming that for me...
 
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