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Help! Boondocker box troubles

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Earlier this season, I was experiencing some electrical problems on my '05 M7 causing it to randomly die. The sled would fire right back up and run for while before it would quit again. I unplugged my boony box and that fixed the problem, so I sent my box off to Boondocker to get repaired. In the mean time I ran my M7-8 big bore without the box keeping an eye on my EGT's and being busy on the throttle.

A couple weeks later, I get my boony box back with a new PTO black connector, repaired connections inside the box, new display and the latest version of software. I re-install it on my sled not paying attention to which locations the wires on the connectors. Sled starts and runs fine, except when I'm leaving the parking lot and rev the engine, the sled dies. No spark at the plugs. I unhook the box from the injectors and plug the stock injector connectors in and still no spark. I swap my ECU with a friend's M7 ECU and I get spark. My ECU is toast.

I find a used ECU here on the forum and put it on the sled, along with my boondocker box. Sled starts and runs, but the boony box says "PTO wires crossed" so I go back to reading the instructions. When the folks at Boondocker replaced the PTO black connector, they installed the red and green wires wrong into the terminals. I switch the wires back to what the instructions say they should be and start the sled. Sled dies 5-10 seconds later. Sled will start and run but will not stay running with the box plugged in. The sled will not run long enough for the boony box to display anything. I unplug the box and the sled runs fine, BUT my Digatron doesn't turn on.

What in the heck is goin on? Does anybody have a clue of where to look or what is causing this? On Monday, I'm going to call Boondocker...
 
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sounds like you have a new trojan virus in your boony box, they must of forgot to install the new norton anti-virus haha, thats a tuff one man thats got me stumped i have never herd of anything like that, sounds like boondocker messed up somewhere on the programing to me.
 
sounds like you have a new trojan virus in your boony box, they must of forgot to install the new norton anti-virus haha, thats a tuff one man thats got me stumped i have never herd of anything like that, sounds like boondocker messed up somewhere on the programing to me.

Now I know why everybody wants to get rid of their boondocker box...
 
Update

I found the brown wire that is the chassis ground was completely unhooked! I reconnected it sled runs fine now with or without the box. I also found out that the wires going to my PTO injector needed to be switched, OPPOSITE of what the instructions say....

So back to what everybody tells you when you have electrical problems, "CHECK YOUR GROUND!"
 
sounds like ground issues to me but im just guessing right. i had installed an egt and a pure logic box on a sled and i had the grounds both at the same spot. a no no they messed with eachother, separated the grounds and it all went good after
 
I see a lot of disconnected ground wires like you found. I also see the wires that go into the injectors with burned areas on them under the pipe. They then ground to the fuel rail and short out.
 
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