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Cummins 5.9 Idle tuning issue
Im having a hard time getting the truck to idle right. The idle speed seems to rapidly fluctuate between 600 and 800 rpm in a manner that is analogous of a gasoline engine with a vacuum leak. I wend through a bunch of revisions chasing some power and then later noticed the terrible idle. I tried reverting to an older revision but at 5 minutes a flash i got quite frustrated and continued tuning. Long story short, i killed the turbo before i solved the idle issue and now im waiting on a replacement. But in the mean time i wanted to better understand the parameters in the tune to hopefully find the idle issue.
Im not too concerned with output power as the current tune seems to just demolish the tires, and my turbo but that may have been user error or turbo manufacturing error. But i would like to get the idle fixed up. What i don't completely understand are the governors, whats the highspeed, all speed, etc. Also i don't understand the droop and alt droop. The HP tuners description isn't quite explanatory for me. Sorry for the ignorance but im a gasoline guy , but ive been reading about diesel for like 2 days now and got a pretty good handle on inj timing, fuel pressure, and pulsewidth effect on each other. The truck was pulling pretty hard and put down some reasonable numbers on the dyno.
tune is attached
idles like crap
Pulls hard AF
No Smoke