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WIF sensor wiring question

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Anyone have knowledge or experience with the WIF sensor wiring? Im guessing its the two wire plug at the FFM and not the 3 wire plug. If at all possible I want to wire a Parker Racor WIF sensor into my factory harness. Heres a picture of my filter setup. The bowl has a threaded plug for sensor and I have attached a picture of the sensor for this bowl which i havent ordered yet. Is it as simple as connecting the two wires on the sensor to the factory wiring? If anyone has done this successfully please chime in. Thanks.
 

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That RK21069WIF sensor requires a detection module in the cab.
Racor RK30880E WIF sensor looks like it would be a direct replacement electrically.
It supplies a ground to illuminate the WIF light same as OEM.
 
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Ok thanks guys. Heres a picture of that sensor you listed RK30880E. Looks like the threads are the same but I better make sure before I buy it. According to this chart I found its the same thread. So you think that will work for sure? Or maybe?
 

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I found what i needed. This person installed one and said he hooked up to the factory gauge in the vehicle it was being installed on. Stated the factory gauge was a negative trigger so didnt use the aftermarket light. Thanks for the part number Glagulator and Diagrams courtesy HeavyChevy. I will post back when I get this done. Racor 230R10 Pre filter with RK30880E Water Detection Kit install
 
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Thanks to Heavychevrolet95 & Glagulator for helping me get this done! Heres some pictures from my install today. The wiring diagrams were necessary but i still took a test light to the factory wires. I kept the factory wif sensor pigtail the wires are also a basic color match. Black constant ground, Red 12+ with ignition on, yellow is negative trigger wire to illuminate the dash warning. Yellow to Yellow/Black stripe, Black to Black and Red to pink/black stripe. Thanks again
 

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Manual
 

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#8 · (Edited by Moderator)
More pictures and testing the sensor video:hehe: Didn't feel much like soldering today so I just used heat shrink butt connectors and heat shrink over that. Staggered to not bunch up in the wires loom.

 

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Thanks for sharing. I'm going to need a lot of what was shared to wire up my Dmax filter head's WIF and fuel heater.

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#15 ·
This is highly informative and tempting to do myself, as my FFM is pretty bad at the moment.
If you where to install this from stock FFM again, what would you order/done differently?
 
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Thanks Freddyack this was fun for me. Hopefully some people will benefit from the parts list. It took me some research and advice to be positive I was buying the right stuff.
 
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Nice goin man! nice and clean looking also! :thumb: