Today, we're going to be installing a BD 1057712. This is a throttle sensitivity booster for
the 2011 to 2014 Ford 6.7 trucks. One of the biggest things with drive-by-wire systems
is the lack of throttle response. So if you don't already have a module on your truck
that increases the throttle sensitivity, this is a nice add-on from BD here. So what we're
going to do is we're going to go ahead and get started with our installation.
First thing you're going to want to do, as with anytime you're working on electronics
on a truck, you want to make sure that you disconnect both your negative and positive
battery cables off of both batteries. Second step that you're going to want to do with
installing these is you're going to want to locate your APPS. Now on most of the trucks,
it's going to be right on the skinny pedal, right above the go pedal. On your older model
Dodges, your APPS sensor is going to be underneath the hood on the front of the engine. What
we're going to do now is we're going to go ahead, and you want to make sure that, again,
your batteries are disconnected, all the power is away from the truck. What we're going to
do is we're going to actually unhook the APPS from its sensor now.
On our 2012 Ford, to unhook our throttle position sensor, we're actually going to go right here
to the gas pedal. You can look straight up there and you can see that this is our APPS
sensor. To unhook it on the top, right here where my thumb is going to be an electrical
connector. On the electrical connector, you'll just slide the red clip up. The step two in
our throttle sensitivity booster installation after we have disconnected the battery cables
is to connect the harness for the throttle sensitivity booster module. The harness is
connected to the APPS sensor, and in most of the trucks, again, it is going to be the
sensor that's actually attached to your throttle pedal.
On these newer Fords, I'm going to try to show you this. Right above the throttle pedal
you'll see an electrical module. On the top of that electric module, right here is a connector
that your throttle sensitivity booster will hook into. There's a red locking tab on these
newer Fords. Just slide this up and drop your light while you're at it. Just slide the red
locking tab up. In the center of the harness itself, there'll be a button you can push
that will disconnect it. So to connect the throttle sensitivity boost harness, you'll
actually just piggyback the harness in, and now we'll connect it straight to our throttle
sensitivity booster.
The next step that we'll have in our throttle sensitivity booster in our installation is
we actually have to get the circuit board out of the throttle sensitivity booster box.
To do that, there'll be some locking tabs on the inside here. If you just depress those,
and one side at a time, just unlock the box. I went ahead and did this, so save me from
having to fuss on this video about not being able to get it. Just go ahead and do that,
but one side at a time and you'll get it out.
You'll see your board. You want to make sure when you're working around your board that
you don't have any kind of static electricity or don't work on it in a real dirty environment.
For sure, don't be rolling this around on your floorboard. Now, what we want to do is
we actually want to connect the throttle sensitivity, or the APPS harness, into the box till it
clicks. Okay. So now we've reconnected our battery cables, and what we actually have
to do is we actually have to turn the truck on and program the booster module.
So we're going to turn our key to the on position, and you'll see the power and the ready light
are flashing. What we're going to do now... is turn the air conditioner down. First thing
we need to check is make sure on switch number three, that switch number three is pointed
to the number one position. The number one position on here, pointed towards the number
one position. Number one position is a stock. This is where at the position it has to be
in before we begin the learn process. So that is on switch three.
Above switch three, there's a learn pedal button here. What we do with this is we're
going to push this until both the ready and the power light are illuminate. So we'll push
that for just a second. Okay. I'm sorry, all three lights are going to illuminate. So now
what we do is we actually just cycle our throttle pedal. Okay. So you just push it to the floor,
make sure no mats are in the way, and then release it. Push it to the floor and release
it. Push it to the floor and release it until the ready light flashes here. When the ready
light flashes, that means we're good to go. Once that happens, we'll go ahead and shut
the truck off. Okay.
Now, shut the truck off and we'll remove the key. Then what we're going to do is we're
actually going to set this back to the second position. Then we go back and turn our truck
to the on position. Okay. We actually want to change our switch to number two or number
three position. Number two position is about 50% more boost. The number three position
is going to be 100% more throttle boost. So we're going to start out on the 50% position.
About there. All right, so that's good. So we've got that at about 50% on the switch.
We're going to reconnect the box on it. We'll reinsert the circuit board on the box. Take
the truck out and drive it.
Once you have your throttle sensitivity booster programmed... We set ours on 50%. We're going
to drive in the truck and see how we like it. So I'm going to go ahead and put the module
back together, put the kit back together and then see how we like this. You just want to
push it back together till it clicks. What I'll do is I'll zip tie this up underneath
the dash. I'm going to take it out and try it and see what it does for us.
The drive-by-wire system, electronic drive-by-wire, one of the biggest complaints that you're
always going to have is the lack of throttle sensitivity. That's what this is designed
to combat. We should have a much crisper throttle response with this. So we're going to try
this on the 50%. If we need to dial it up, that's what we'll do. Zip tie this underneath
the dash here, make sure it's not in the way of the brake or the throttle, just use common
sense and that kind of stuff. And that's got our throttle sensitivity booster installation
complete. If you've got a question on this installation or any of our other installations,
just give us a call. Thank you.