Critical Tips on How to Maintain Your Cummins Celect ECM
A Cummins Celect ECM
requires certain maintenance and management rules and guidelines. You need to
watch out for these crucial factors when you care for a Cummins ECM. The most
important thing is to never pressure wash ECMs.
Caring for Your Cummins Celect ECM
The Cummins Celect
ECM is designed to handle road spray and that eventually fails. But
pressure washers can cause the water and chemicals to penetrate the seals. This
destroys the ECM further causing the warranty to become null and void. Another
important aspect to watch out for are oil leaks. Oil leaking across the harness
like a wick and into the ECM can lead to issues. The ECM always needs to be disconnected
before welding. It works to take off the C plug or injector harness from the
ECM prior to welding.
If it is not useful or practical to remove the C plug, what
you can do at the very minimum is to disconnect the batteries completely. Also
ensure that the power wires to the ECM are not touching the metal. Disconnect
the ECM before batteries are changed, working on the starter, alternator or
charging the batteries. The negative cable needs to be removed first. Not that
ECMs respond very negatively to power shorts or spikes.
Battery cables do not need to be installed backwards.
Connecting battery cables correctly is important otherwise the ECM is
instantaneously damaged.
How to Look After Your Cummins Celect ECM
While charging the batteries of the ECM, avoid jumpstarting.
In case the batteries are dead, disconnect the ECM and charge the batteries
with the charger. Then reconnect the ECM and the batteries and commence
normally. Celect and Celect plus components should also not be intermixed together.
This generally happens when an engine is replaced using a different generation
used engine. If you put a Celect engine in a Celect Plus automobile, full
conversion is critical. It is imperative that the electronics including the ECM
should match the engine generation being used. Engine sensor harnesses must
match your Cummins
Celect ECM. However, the injector harness and OEM harness can be
modified with a Dremel or soldiering iron for safety detents to fit. There is a
lack of conversion calibrations for using a
Celect ECM on a Celect Plus car or vice versa. Another common source of
issues is the inline fuse for the ECM power supply and wires tend to rub and
short to the battery box. So, ensure that you take adequate precautions to
ensure your ECM functions well.
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