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Old 07-27-2009, 12:55 AM
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I was driving on 94 west in Detroit, MI the other day and got into a hard to see road crack filled with water at 55 MPH. The noise of the water hitting the bottom of the truck was very loud. I got concerned it might have damaged something and half an hour later my premonitions came true:

-The cruise control shut itself off
- The speedo needle went to 0
- The odometer stopped spinning

The truck was running fine and I was still doing 57-58 MPH. The tachometer kept working... Some 10-20 minutes later the speedo came back online and I was able to engage the cruise.

After a while it got kicked out again. All in all, within 3 hours after hitting that puddle, this happened 3 or 4 times. A couple of times the truck also did sudden accelerations (1-2 MPH) with the cruise control on but after a couple of seconds, it went back to the cruising speed.

Then the rain stopped and everything worked fine. I stopped by TA at x.22 in Porter, IN to check the speed sensor on the transmission and they didn't find anything unusual.

Has anyone had something like this happen to their truck? On my 2004 International 9400, the truck's ECM is right next to the tire, on the front end of the engine towards the driver. I think the water got into the ECM or one of the wires and/or connectors near it and temporarily disabled the speedometer. When the water dried out, everything was back to normal.

I drove a whole day today (450 miles) and ECM and speedometer acted normal. Any comments?
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Old 07-27-2009, 01:50 AM
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Get some Termin8tor spray, the purple stuff, and spray the crap out of all the connections, terminals and check the harnesses really carefully for any knicks in wires.

Water into the wiring is the beginning of the devil's spawn, so get it sealed up and keep it out, cuz the salt gets in there next...

Spray has got to be a water displacing dielectric.
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Old 07-27-2009, 02:02 AM
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Speed Sensor in the trans could have gotten wet or is going bad.
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Get some Termin8tor spray, the purple stuff, and spray the crap out of all the connections, terminals and check the harnesses really carefully for any knicks in wires. Water into the wiring is the beginning of the devil's spawn, so get it sealed up and keep it out, cuz the salt gets in there next...Spray has got to be a water displacing dielectric.
Thanks for a good tip. I'll also stop by CAT and have them check all the wires and harnesses under the truck next time I do oil change.
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Old 07-27-2009, 02:42 AM
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Speed Sensor in the trans could have gotten wet or is going bad.
It's probably the darn water shooting at the truck's bottom at high speed that's to blame. As I mentioned I drove the entire day today and the speedometer worked like clockwork. BUT: it was a sunny day in WI and MN.
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Old 07-27-2009, 03:28 AM
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Speed sensor is my bet. But getting the ecm checked and cleaning all the connections can't hurt. The speed sensor controls all three of your problem areas.
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I have had the exact same symptoms happen to me before. though not from any water. trucks are made to go thru severe rainstorms without disabling things. mine surged with the cruise on too. it was loose or bad cable/ wire. I had replaced the speed sensor in the trans & that seemed to fix it.

however that only fixed it temporarily. cause the sensor was not the problem.
it was the wiring that was causing the sensor to keep going out. I replaced all the jumper wires on the batteries & both main, hot & ground cables & cleaned all ground connections down to the bare metal. I had the e.c.m. wiring harness replaced a while back , so I knew that was o.k. I have went thru heavy rain & deep splashing puddles, speedo has not gone out because of it. I.M.O. I dont think it was the water itself. more likely the water pressure cause a connection to lose contact.

one reason I knew it was not the sensor is cause my engine light came on & when I had the e.c.m codes checked, it had all kind of false codes, due to the electrical short. & the speed sensor going out would not bring up all the false codes. I am not sure wich cable or cables that was causing my prob, so I replaced them all. by your description of the events. I would say it is in the wiring somewhere. not the speed sensor. though keep in mind. that bad wiring can make the speed sensor go out quick. so you may have to fix the electrical short plus the speed sensor.
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Back in 95 I ran through a puddle on NB I-5, just coming off the ship canal bridge. The engine died right then. Managed to coast about 300 feet, enough to clear half the left lane onto the shoulder. ECM on the truck was bad (a brand new T-800). I was loaded with 11,500 gallons of gas, and the wrecker service sent out one of those little roll-off jobbies the first dispatch...to try and pull me out of the way!! Yeah right!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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97% of ecms turned into the factory from dealerships are not bad...very very rare ecms go bad,
the water cased wires to move possibly pushing wan exposed or loose wire.
too many times merely the act of tightening connections solves many problems.
look at the wire connector ( pull apart) and look for some green corrosion..
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97% of ecms turned into the factory from dealerships are not bad...very very rare ecms go bad, the water cased wires to move possibly pushing wan exposed or loose wire. too many times merely the act of tightening connections solves many problems. look at the wire connector ( pull apart) and look for some green corrosion..
Well, the speedo died again - this time the needle points at zero even 2 days after the heavy rain I went through on the way to Houston, Texas. The engine lost power and I figure I burnt about 60 gallons of fuel more than if the speedometer were working (the fuel gauge is at 1/4 and I only did 800 miles since the last refuel; the load was 18,500 lbs). I went to the International Trucks of Houston on Friday and a "technician" was checking stuff on it for a couple of hours and then came back and said he cannot fix it and that I'd have to wait for the "big engine tecnician" to come in at 7 am on Monday (tomorrow). He said he saw the fault on the ECM which couldn't read speed and gear parameters but wasn't able to find the cause. The good news is he didn't charge me anything and the guy didn't look happy. What kind of people do these places hire anyway? You need a "big engine technician" to get a speedometer working? I should have gone to Peterbilt Only today I found out there was one just down the road from the International.

By the way, following the advice from the earlier posts I got a can of Termin8or and sprayed all wires under the hood but I didn't go under the truck. Maybe that's why it happened again ... I called out shop at MacKinnon and the mechanic said to ask International to check the transmission yoke (whatever that is) because "if it's loose the ECM will not get the speed signal". So, I'm sitting here at Houston Pilot waiting for Monday morning to have the International take a second shot at my speedo problem.
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