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    Replace your 03/04 APPS sensor for less than $100 and 2 hours time.

    Update, replacing the intake manifold gaskets were the main issue. Rock solid idle and no red lightning bolt anymore.
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    Replace your 03/04 APPS sensor for less than $100 and 2 hours time.

    That is unfortunate. That's somewhat good that you know at least when the red lightning bolt comes back. After I changed the APPS sensor I was still getting the red lightning bolt maybe on 25-40% of my trips. It was almost always a few miles from my house when the engine was not all the way...
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    Replace your 03/04 APPS sensor for less than $100 and 2 hours time.

    16% sounds like a little high for idle. So definitely looks like something going on there. Probably multiple things, probably wiring, at the same time. Honestly with a throttle input like that to the truck I'm surprised it would run at all. There would be some times where my TPS% looked not that...
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    Replace your 03/04 APPS sensor for less than $100 and 2 hours time.

    Thank you I'd like to think that this is me giving back to the community. I'm an engineer for my day job and sometimes I have to solve and document things not all that different from this, such as adapting something off the shelf to replace unavailable parts. Hopefully this info can help keep...
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    Replace your 03/04 APPS sensor for less than $100 and 2 hours time.

    ***DISCLAIMER*** everything you do to your truck is your responsibility, I have no liability if you follow what I did to fix my truck. Take it to a professional if you do not feel comfortable doing it yourself after reading through completely. ***DISCLAIMER*** Backstory time. So the infamous...
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