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Old 05-20-2024, 07:32 PM
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...why don't you simply add a ground (from the frame) to the connector, just to get it working? That's pretty easy.

Then figure out why the ground is missing.

My 04 Suburban had the entire bundle of wire severed. Like if was somehow stuck on the front driveshaft somehow. I respliced the harness, and my "service 4wd" message was still there and it was still stuck in 2wd. It would up being the little reluctor wheel inside the encoder motor. I think it's called range something it's $20.
I spliced the ground black wire from harness and it worked for a minute I could hear the actuator working then it failed and the 4 wheel light came back on
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Originally Posted by 40series
I spliced the ground black wire from harness and it worked for a minute I could hear the actuator working then it failed and the 4 wheel light came back on

Here's the thread I made. Post #11 has the parts I was talking about and how I tested mine. Maybe that's your problem?

I hope this helps: https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...essage-560255/

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The black wire goes to ground on actuator harness
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The black wire goes to pin A of the control module, labelled "CW" on the schematic. It only gets grounded when the control module grounds it. Which is, when it is commanding the motor to spin in one direction. It ends up going to battery when the module is commanding the motor to spin the other direction, at which time the red wire, which goes to pin B of the module labelled "CCW", gets grounded.

Which is probably why the motor now goes all the way one way and can't come back the other way... the module can no longer reverse the voltage on those wires like it's supposed to.

Pin C of the module goes to ground. Pin D gets 12V from the ATC fuse.

The black wire DOES NOT belong going straight to ground.
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Since there's no "ground off the actuator" at all, as described elsewhere after a detailed study of the schematic, what did you ACTUALLY ground?
​​get off my thread I don't need your extra stuff
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What did you see when YOU looked at your copy of the schematic?

If you're not interested in how the thing is actually wired, you'll NEVER get it to work.
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Default Replaced encoder now suck in neutral

Replaced transfer case encoder now in stuck in neutral and 4 wheel light came back
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