Red Lightning Bolt... AGAIN!

[THRobinson]

So, in the summer I got the Red Lightning Bolt after I fixed my brakes. Test drove around the block, and as soon as I slowed down for the driveway, the red lightning bolt came up and the truck stuttered and died.


Cleaned the throttle body and worked totally fine for maybe 3 weeks then died in the city near a garage luckily... managed to coast into the parking lot.


Mechanic said they couldn't tell if it was the throttle body, or the gas/brake pedal assembly because the assembly on mine has switches in it and if need replaced the entire assembly needs replaced, which in Canada no one makes/sells anymore.


Told him I suspect throttle body because it worked after I cleaned it for weeks... if it were the switches, then my cleaning probably wouldn't have affected it. To save me some money, because they don't deal with refurbished, he stuck one in from an auto wreckers. That was 2-3 months ago. Then tonight outta nowhere, the light's back on again and again, died... got it running enough to get home and literally coasted into the driveway.


Fluke? maybe the throttle body from the wreckers is junk?


or could it still possibly be the switches in the foot pedal assembly?

 

[Karlsweg]

Check the throttle body connector. I had to really push it in hard to get a good connection but that did the trick for me.