I just installed M2W for the NPP and the #10 fuse is the one you remove.
CAGS fuse???
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CAGS fuse???
Did I go nuts? Bought an 08 stick and pulled #10 fuse. Still won't let me skip the &%^% 1-4. It still gets stuck almost into second. (During the 1-4 light)
Can anyone guess as to why it didn't disable the cags solenoid? Is there some other solenoid that might be wired wrong or computer error?
Oddly my wife has never had the thing stop her. Could I be driving it like an old lady?
Can anyone guess as to why it didn't disable the cags solenoid? Is there some other solenoid that might be wired wrong or computer error?
Oddly my wife has never had the thing stop her. Could I be driving it like an old lady?
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You pulled the wrong fuse.
The removal of the fuse will just toss a code and you'll get a SES light. Either have the CAGS removed by a tuner or plug in a CAGS eliminator. Pulling #10 is not the answer.
Elmer
The removal of the fuse will just toss a code and you'll get a SES light. Either have the CAGS removed by a tuner or plug in a CAGS eliminator. Pulling #10 is not the answer.
Elmer
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The number 10 fuse has been a myth for about 10 years. If it were that easy, there wouldn't be about a million CAGS defeat "kit's" sold. You either have to have it programmed out, or do the CAGS defeat - which means pulling the wire under the car and plugging in the loop-de-loop wire to make it happy.
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You pulled the wrong fuse, study the diagram carefully as it's confusing. Putting a 2.2k resistor in place of the fuse is all that is needed to disable the cags.
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Yes, you pulled the wrong fuse.......
Follow the trail!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=2063544
It works.......not an issue with the cost of the $20 wiring harness kit....just plain simpler to put in and take out.
Follow the trail!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=2063544
It works.......not an issue with the cost of the $20 wiring harness kit....just plain simpler to put in and take out.
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As noted before, I have only had a few cases where it bothered me....usually in town making a turn up a hill.
Anyway, the biggest reason I wanted the defeat is for protection against anyone else that drives the car from "forcing the shifter" and possibly bending something... Ya, you can say no one else drive yours but in fact, you take it in for service (even an alignment) and you won't have a lot of control IF someone gets behind the wheel.
The next reason is on our 2005 it was easy to put the harness device on.......but with the Z06 the exhaust pipes were large enough and my hands so big that I just couldn't reach into the area to unplug the harness at the solenoid.
Bottom line.....doing the "fuse trick" is so easy to do with no need to lift the car. Why didn't one of the vendors do it first......who knows, I'd guess it is much easier for them to buy components and assemble. If they were to do the "fuse trick", they would likely have to invest in some level of tooling $
Anyway, the biggest reason I wanted the defeat is for protection against anyone else that drives the car from "forcing the shifter" and possibly bending something... Ya, you can say no one else drive yours but in fact, you take it in for service (even an alignment) and you won't have a lot of control IF someone gets behind the wheel.
The next reason is on our 2005 it was easy to put the harness device on.......but with the Z06 the exhaust pipes were large enough and my hands so big that I just couldn't reach into the area to unplug the harness at the solenoid.
Bottom line.....doing the "fuse trick" is so easy to do with no need to lift the car. Why didn't one of the vendors do it first......who knows, I'd guess it is much easier for them to buy components and assemble. If they were to do the "fuse trick", they would likely have to invest in some level of tooling $
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#10 Fuse
Yes, make sure you find the correct fuse. The underside of the fuse box cover has a map.........but with a grid layout. As one of my friends did, he found the grid location 10-a and installed the fuse trick......well it didn't work........ Told him to make sure he had correct fuse......told me he did and I gave him another fuse...... Wasn't untill we were on an outing a few weeks later and he had it in the wrong location. If in doubt go to your owners manual and look for #10 (manual doesn't show the grid)
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Thanks
Thanks for all the replies.
I was sure I looked at that fuse box cover 10 times. How many #10's are there?
Now I don't know if it is a myth or not.
It wouldn't be so bad but it always catches the shifter and I can't move it at all until I drop below 15mph. I can't imagine anything I have ever seen in my life so stupid as that. I hate that #$%$^ thing.
I was sure I looked at that fuse box cover 10 times. How many #10's are there?
Now I don't know if it is a myth or not.
It wouldn't be so bad but it always catches the shifter and I can't move it at all until I drop below 15mph. I can't imagine anything I have ever seen in my life so stupid as that. I hate that #$%$^ thing.
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Read the below link, since if you just pull the fuse, your going to get fault codes.
Hence you change the fuse out to a resistor fuse, so the computer can still see the Cags solenoid when it checks the resistance on the loop, but will not let enough amperage through the resistor fuse to activate the CAGS.
http://xse.com/leres/z06/cags.html
As for which fuse you need to change out with a 2.2K resistor fuse,
Lastly, the resistor fuse at the fuse box only works the the C6, since the Cags is the only thing drawing power through that fuse. On the C5, there where other system on the the fuse, so you have to install the resistor down line at the trans Cags solenoid instead (had to get under the car to install the resistor on the C6).
To add, with the resistor fuse, it will prevent the block out, but you will still get the 1-4 dash light. So if the car is tuned, or you are planning on tuning the car, it easy to just go into the Cags settings to change the throttle percentage to turn the cags system off instead (you get no dash 1-4 dash light coming on this way, since the system is never triggered).
Hence you change the fuse out to a resistor fuse, so the computer can still see the Cags solenoid when it checks the resistance on the loop, but will not let enough amperage through the resistor fuse to activate the CAGS.
http://xse.com/leres/z06/cags.html
As for which fuse you need to change out with a 2.2K resistor fuse,
Lastly, the resistor fuse at the fuse box only works the the C6, since the Cags is the only thing drawing power through that fuse. On the C5, there where other system on the the fuse, so you have to install the resistor down line at the trans Cags solenoid instead (had to get under the car to install the resistor on the C6).
To add, with the resistor fuse, it will prevent the block out, but you will still get the 1-4 dash light. So if the car is tuned, or you are planning on tuning the car, it easy to just go into the Cags settings to change the throttle percentage to turn the cags system off instead (you get no dash 1-4 dash light coming on this way, since the system is never triggered).
Last edited by Dano523; Jun 11, 2017 at 09:42 PM.
