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Old 10-26-2015, 09:39 AM   #1
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Mechanical DT466 - OBD (or similar) port?

This might be a dumb question seeing as it is a mechanical engine, but is there an OBD port or other diagnostics type interface that I can pull data off of? Or is the International instrument cluster all I get?

It is a 1997, mechanical DT466 with MT643 transmission.

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Old 10-26-2015, 10:24 AM   #2
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If it's a dt466 and not a dt466e then there is no computer. Are you sure it's fully mechanical? I'm thinking in 97 you'd be electric. Anyways, you can add all the gauges you would want to it, so I'm not sure why you would need a computer or obd scanner. What kind of data are you wanting to read?
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:31 AM   #3
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It is a mechanical for sure. DT466 not DT466E. Absolute last year for them. As for the data I want to read, it was more of a seeing what my options are more than anything else.
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:32 AM   #4
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What gauges do you currently have?
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:37 AM   #5
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Standard International dash cluster. Tachometer, speedometer, air pressure, coolant temp, oil pressure, battery voltage, fuel level.

Looks like this guy: http://modulemaster.com/rebuilds/wp-...ernational.jpg
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:42 AM   #6
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What you have is a real man's diesel engine. Be thankful of what you have and man up. Just kidding. You have one of the last mechanical DT466 engines and the preferred transmission. Why do you need a puter for?
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:46 AM   #7
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I thought 1997 was the last year for the mechanical DT but someone on here had a 1998. Maybe they had an extra engine laying around.
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:48 AM   #8
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Heh. To be honest, the question was inspired by that nifty little display with MPG and everything on VanHool's build. A plug and play solution for that would be nice, but putting in manual gauges for transmission temperature and such work well too.

http://www.skoolie.net/forums/f32/19...tml#post125289
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Old 10-26-2015, 10:50 AM   #9
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I thought 1997 was the last year for the mechanical DT but someone on here had a 1998. Maybe they had an extra engine laying around.
Huh. I had always heard 1997. Might have been a '97 engine?
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Huh. I had always heard 1997. Might have been a '97 engine?
Probably. Definitely wasn't a California bus. I think they had DT466E engines starting in 1995.
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At the very least, I would add an EGT, boost (if turboed) and probably a trans temp gauge. Good to know what those items are up to.
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Old 10-26-2015, 02:11 PM   #12
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The gauges you install depends on a lot of things. Some people install a gauge for everything, while others won't understand the data they're seeing anyways and really don't care. I just picked up a pyro, boost, trans temp, tachometer cluster from a guy parting out his truck for 40 bucks. All isspro too. I might also get an engine oil temp gauge because that more accurately shows engine load then water temp. That and I like having gauges. Summit racing had a whole variety of sunpro gauges on clearance a week or two ago. Now granted, they're made in china but for 50 bucks you could pick up an entire gauge set. Not sure if they have any left though so you'll have to check.
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Old 10-26-2015, 04:33 PM   #13
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Sounds like a nice rack of gauges...got any pix? And trying to find anything that WASN'T made in China is almost impossible these days. And if you do, they are usually impossibly priced.
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Old 10-27-2015, 06:26 PM   #14
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No, no pics, not sure where the camera is at right now. The pyro is R604, tach is r5503, oil temp is r5654, and boost is r5613. No senders came with it though, so I'll have to buy them yet. Then I'll just have to put a turbo on the engine in order to use the boost gauge.
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