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Did you replace pump yet?

So i spent quute alot of time today on hold at fass also emailed them twice. Have a few hours into this with out success. Figured out the rpt1005 fits my fass titanium directly of wich is discontinued The rpts1005 is its replacement few upgrades whisper technology etc. These are 165gph units. The power connection plug might be differnt apparently fass changed plug 4 years ago. Orderd rpt10005 through diesel performance parts i got my valair clutch through them. The guys at diesel performance parts were very helpfull did some digging themselves to be sure that the rpt and rpts are interchangeable other than maybe plug. Fass not so much. Anyways thats all i got Guess nothing on the truck will take a **** sitn in driveway waiting for pump.

Sorry I've been hung up working on many other things. @Mace what clutch did you get?

What I've Been Up To: Landslides, Servers, and a Talking Computer Named RaymondOct 21, 2026 · @Titanium If you've noticed I've been a little quiet around here, this post is why. The landslide took my shop and every tool in it, and my cancer means I'm not allowed to lift more than 40 pounds. So I've been putting my energy into what I can still do, which is sharing what I know and building things with computers. The HillsideOn May 29th, 2025, the hillside behind the house let go and buried the diesel shop. Everything in it was destroyed, tools included. Since then, Tweety Bird and I have been cleaning up, and this past June I bought a Kubota M62 tractor to do the heavy moving my back can't. We're still sifting the slide dirt for debris, saving the bigger concrete for a foundation, and planning a 40-foot connex box as a mini shop for fuel, firewood, and tools. I'll post more as it takes shape. What I Still Have: The KnowledgeI can't turn wrenches right now, but I haven't lost what I know, and that was always the most valuable thing in the shop. I started running a BBS in 1984 at age 14. I graduated from ITT Tech in 1989 and ran Cloud 10 Computers, a custom PC building business, from 1994 to 2008. In 2004 I hand-coded my first website in plain HTML4. On October 4, 2007, I started Mopar1973Man.Com as personal notes for fixing Dodge Ram Cummins diesels, so I wouldn't have to figure out the same repair twice. Those notes grew into the site you're reading now. Over the years, people have found it from all over. I've had calls and messages from Poland, Australia, and Germany, among other places, and many of them keep coming back to the site. That tells me the knowledge here is worth something, even with the shop gone. So I'm building a way to keep putting it to work: More articles. I want to write up the stories behind what I've done, including Cummins repair notes, the computers and networking side, and the landslide itself, and explain how I did each one so you can follow along. One-on-one help. If you're stuck on a Cummins problem, I want you to be able to talk to someone who has been through it. Paid consulting calls. I'm setting this up through the site's own subscriptions and gift cards, so booking time with me is simple. It's a way for me to keep helping people with these engines without a shop and without lifting a thing. Video. I'd like to add video to the mix, so you can see the problem explained and not just read about it. Vehicle Maintenance add-on. I'm also building a custom add-on for the forum where each member can keep their own garage and log service records: date, mileage, service type, cost, parts, and reminders for the next service. Taking Care of the Live SiteI've spent a good chunk of October on the server that runs the site. Here's the short version: I upgraded the forum software to Invision Community 5.0.20. The site now runs PHP 8.3, up from 8.2. I added stronger browser security headers and tightened up how the server handles logins. I tracked down and fixed a mail problem that was quietly blocking outgoing email. It was a one-line relay rule that had been missing, and it took a while to find. None of this changes how the site looks, but it keeps things running safely, which matters more now that I'm adding paid services. The Home Network RebuildThe rest of my energy has gone into rebuilding the home network from the ground up. Storage. The home server has four 4TB NVMe drives, which I pooled into one ZFS array with redundancy so a drive failure doesn't take anything with it. Each user gets their own managed slice of space. I did lose some old camera footage along the way when a partition got deleted before I'd migrated it. That one was a lesson, and the cameras are recording fresh footage now. Backups. Every night at 2AM the server wakes the workstations, backs up their data, installs updates, and puts them back to sleep. It never touches a machine while someone is logged in. Weather station. My AcuRite Atlas feeds a custom WeeWX setup I built that reads the data straight from the cloud, while the weather service keeps getting its own copy as before. I recently wiped the database clean to start fresh, so the history begins from mid-October. Power. An EG4 6000XP inverter now handles the house after my old Trace inverter blew. It runs off the 48V Trojan battery bank. Game server. It's not all work. The home server also runs my own Rust game server, just for fun. Tweety Bird and I both play on Ubuntu Linux through Steam, so it's something we can do together from our own desktops. I moved it onto the ZFS pool with everything else, so it has plenty of room and gets the same protection as the rest of the server. Everything at a Glance: My Conky DashboardWith this many moving parts, I needed a way to see the whole picture without logging into five different things. So I built a set of Conky panels that sit right on my desktop and start automatically every time I log in. They show me: The live website server. This is the server running mopar1973man.com, so I can tell right away if the site is healthy. The home server. CPU, memory, storage, and the rest of what's running behind the scenes at home. The EG4 inverter. Battery and power status pulled from the inverter's cloud portal, so I always know how the house is holding up. The weather station. Live readings from the Atlas, straight from the WeeWX setup on the home server. My own desktop. A main hardware and network panel for the machine I'm sitting at. The panels are tucked into the corners of my screen with the longer ones wrapped into two columns, so they stay out of the way but are always there when I look up. Two servers, the power system, and the weather, all in one glance. I'm planning to copy the same setup to Tweety Bird's computer too. Meet RaymondThe project I've had the most fun with is Raymond, my local AI assistant. Both workstations have an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of video memory, so I'm running AI models right here at home with Ollama instead of sending everything to the cloud. The server acts as traffic cop. It wakes up whichever workstation is available and sends the request there. I talk to Raymond through a web interface, and he talks back with a voice. He can run commands and work in his own sandboxed folder. He can also connect to the workstations through a limited account, which is enough to check the nightly maintenance logs for me. I'm still testing models to see how far a local setup can go on the kind of work I do. Thanks for Sticking AroundThanks to everyone who has called, checked in, or just kept coming back to the site while I've been busy. The shop will come back, and in the meantime the knowledge is still here. I'll keep posting updates as the new features go live. Until next time, Mopar1973Man

I know that the bad luck was there. After a long hard cold look at the tractor and started working it like a Cummins the problems sort its self out. Just makes it difficult when there is no Shop Manual for specs and information. I've got it running much better now and the project is still moving dirt.

Didn't have enough information yet... I jump in and pulled the Inverter wifi signal apart and gain the status of the inverter and the weather station too. This has both the local server and the live web server posted. Linux computer with gauges like a Cummins!

Can i replace the 95gph motor with a 165gph. Its only like 12 bucks more. Fass is closed but id like to order a motor tonight this one sounds kinda like the transmission with rocks in it. I was cruising home today in 5th at 70 trucked buck so im thinking you peice of ****. Put it in 4th and stood on it cause im thinking you freaking pos trans. Pushing throttle only made it buck and studder. Verifued **** i got no fuel and made it home to mtn home going 60 in fith. Truck stumbling pulling all the steep grades to mtn home. Ughhhh ever werk so far having this truck is something. I did back on pump motor with a rachet and that only made it shut completly off. I do have a airdog raptor spare but the fuel line are different because it doesnt have filters. Thanks for any help.

I've been a computer guy since I started running a BBS back in 1984, and one thing hasn't changed in all that time: I like to see what my machines are doing without having to go looking. Lately I've been doing that with Conky, a lightweight system monitor that draws live stats right on the Linux desktop. No browser tab, no web dashboard, just the numbers sitting on the desktop where I can glance at them. What is Conky?Conky is a small, free program that paints system information directly on your desktop background. It reads a plain text config file, so you decide exactly what shows up, where it sits, and how it looks. It barely uses any CPU or RAM, which matters when it runs all day. My setup: three panels on one desktopOn my main workstation I run three separate Conky panels, all starting automatically at login. The two on the left watch servers, and the one on the right watches the workstation itself. 1. Home server panel (home.mopar1973man.com)This is the full health report for my home server, shown on my desktop. The server has no monitor attached, so this panel is how I see what it's doing. From top to bottom: Header: hostname, IP address, and uptime. CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X usage, temperature in °F, and load average across all 12 threads, with a bar graph. RAM and swap: used versus total, with bars. The bar turns red when memory gets high. Storage: each mount point separately (root drive, website backup, Docker, containerd, my Rust game server, and the main storage pool), each with used versus total and its own bar. RAID: status and capacity of the storage array. It currently reads ONLINE. Drives: the temperature of each of the four 4TB NVMe drives. Network: live download and upload speeds. Services: a green dot next to each service that's running (ssh, apache2, postfix, bind9, cups, weewx, mariadb, dovecot, webmin, and fail2ban). Logged in: who is connected, from which IP, and the number of active connections. Top processes: the biggest CPU users, plus a "Failed services" line at the bottom. If a service ever dies, it shows up there. 2. Live web server panel (mopar1973man.com)This one watches the production server. It's smaller and focused on whether the public site is healthy: Site status: whether the website is ONLINE, the HTTP response code (200), and the response time in milliseconds. It's a quick check that the site is serving pages. TLS cert: days left before the SSL certificate expires, so I never get caught by a surprise expiration. Server info: the server's hostname and uptime. CPU, RAM, and swap: the same bar-graph style as the home panel, with load average across 8 cores. Disk: root drive used versus total. Web: the number of connections to the site right now. Services: status dots for httpd, dovecot, csf, crond, php-fpm, mariadb, iworx, lfd, sshd, and the PHP 8.2 FPM service. Logged in: shows if anyone is logged into the server. Top processes: the biggest CPU users. Database and PHP processes usually lead on a web server. 3. Workstation panel (michael-desktop)The tall panel on the right side of the screen covers the machine I'm sitting at: Header: a big clock, the date, the hostname, and uptime. Motherboard: make, model, and BIOS version. CPU: usage, clock speed, temperature in °F, a live graph, and the top three processes. GPU: usage, temperature, VRAM used versus total, power draw, and fan speed. Memory and swap: used versus total, with bars. Drives: each disk with used versus total, plus live read and write activity. Bluetooth, gateway, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi: link speed, live down and up graphs, and connection status. Why separate panels instead of one big one?Each panel can be edited, restarted, or turned off on its own. One broken config doesn't take down the others. Panels can be positioned independently, so the layout stays clean. Copying a panel to another computer is just copying one file. All the config files live in ~/.config/conky, so they're easy to back up and copy to another machine. A few choices I madeTemperatures in °F. Conky defaults to Celsius, but I think in Fahrenheit, so I switched everything over. Autostart at login. A monitor you have to remember to launch isn't much of a monitor. Monitoring servers remotely. The servers don't need their own screens. The desktop panels pull the numbers and show them where I'm already looking. Color as a warning. Bars and numbers change color when something gets high, so trouble stands out without reading every line. How they work togetherThe home panel is about hardware and storage health. The live panel is about whether the public site is up and the certificate is good. The workstation panel covers the machine I'm using. Side by side, one glance tells me whether everything is okay. Ideas I'm working onRoll it out to the other workstation. I plan to copy the same setup to my wife's desktop so both machines get the same view. More alerts at a glance. More color changes when a temperature, RAID state, or disk goes out of its normal range. Bigger-picture monitoring. Anything else that would warn me early if something is going wrong with the site or the servers. Want to try it?On Ubuntu and Debian-based systems, installing Conky is a single package install, and the rest is editing a text file. If there's interest, I'll post my actual config files and walk through how to build a panel step by step. If you're running Conky yourself, or have ideas for what else I should be watching, post them below. I'm always looking for something new to put on the desktop.

@Mopar1973Man Will the 00' pcm work with the 02' ecu if the 02' ecu of flashed to be (auto) instead of its original (manual)? *I need/want to keep electronic cruise control. 2nd option- if not* Can the 00' pcm be updated to work with the flashed 02' ecu (auto) ? Absolute worst case*, I still have them 00' ecu. Then it will all be 00' electronics, ecu, pcm etc. And if need be, hopefully they can still add the 3 cyl hugh idle and 6 cyl high idle. Ill just have to either live without cc or try and mess with the parts left over to make it work. Just to note the engine will still be the 02' HO but with a SO pump. *I guess another curious question is: What all can auto computer specialists actually program with ecu and pcm for our trucks?

ATF <-> Coolant cooler you can ditch if you have enough to keep your transmission temperature under control. ECM and PCM will need to be flashed to match what you are putting together.

Idk if I'd attempt a full auto trans rebuild. The nv5600 wasn't extremely hard just tedious. Im looking at 9k eitherway I choose firepunk or randys. Only difference is randys is for 650 hp and firepunk is at 850 hp. Don't know which is better still only the fact that Ill have a really nice buffer zone for hp goals for FP rated at 850, cause I'll never hit that with this build unless I spray. Still not overly sure I have to have the ant eater, it would make "trans tunes" a cake walk. Still lots of questions about ecu and pcm though. Haven't had anyone suggest any helpful tips or answers to those yet....?

Im not super excited about 2nd gens or even diesels in general but even still this truck is winning me over again. Had trim on the bed so i thought for sure it was a 12v. After knocking on the door and asking if it might be for sale Even though its a 24 and a dually i couldnt pass it up so went got cash then spent the next hour cleaning battery cables. Truck was dead after sitting apmost 2 years. Did get her going and drove it home. Then virtually almost day one the oem exhaust literlt fell out. So i did a 4" stainless axle dump. Then later fit it to the bed Put a 2din head unit in best mod so far. Fabbed a winch bumper. Then 10k miles go by and transmission gets what sounds like rocks in it. Spent some time refreshed trans and replaced all broken bits. This is atleast the second time its been refreshed Exhaust hanger is a jeep sway bar bracket. Ive found these to be the best hangers ive ever made or seen. I think thats about it for now. Buying parts for the transmission kinda broke me. I thought real hard about putting a 47re in it. If id had a spare 47 it would be a no brainer. Next must change is the mirrors. With these things its like brail to change lanes So nice to be able to share pictures This truck does have a pac brake i do t much care to tow with little trucks so i never use it I did measure outlet ill eventually run 4" all the way. Calippers say its a true 4" outlet https://youtube.com/shorts/ETMieKWGT5s?is=opa80VIvYXaGIQvm

Does the oem 2500 and 3500 share same box. Had no issues with my 3500 steering bix steering 35-37" tires for over 200k now

Did you do this clutch install? How where the chamferd holes for the pressure plate to bolt to.

I dig up the stand alone control you need to shift a eltronic 47. This is a badass project You dont need the computer and all that. You did a 5600 so the 47 will be easy peasy. I just did my nv4500 and found i preferd building the 47 Throw gpz clutches in it with a few extra per kit. Do all billett upgrades you can afford aply pistons ect. Upgrade imput shaft with a good valve body. 2 grand goes along ways building a 47 even Spend most your money on the the tourge convertor. 47 will a decent build holds 600 easy 5th gear wont fall off and just plain is way more fun to drive. Youl stay on boost chirpn through the gears going sideways down the street. I just spent 2000 grand on my 4500 for virtually little to no gain just replaced all the broken stuff. For the same not broken stuff. Its kinda sad actually. https://shop.firepunk.com/products/firepunk_engineering_anteater

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Got to thiking the hx40 is not normally a 4.4" vband. I think this might actually be what you need. https://ebay.io/m/oCjzDQ My turbo is a 62mm s300 with all kindsa funkery its short with 3rd gen charge pipeing and the 4.4" outlet. I bought the adapter and welded it to 4" pipe. Its not realy 4 3/8" i think thats the outer vband clamping part. I think these vband weld on adapters will fit over 3.5" so you can (should)easily be able weld on where you need it. Though verify what you have. Not sure why dap says its 4.4" or why you think it is. Also completly confused, truck currently has a hx40 and 4" downpipe installed I looked up the k27 outlet size and its 3" so im even more confused.

Theyre on ebay. Weld on vband 4.4"adapter https://ebay.io/m/KSds2v

I put right at 10k miles on the truck and the transmission decided it was done. Its been built atleast ounce before Heres a quick vid. Im wanting to do a filter set up as i feel the trans bearing went to **** mainly due to neglet.

Testing My carnage pile. As you can see the main was already updated. Went with parts from allstate, itw, and transtare. Steerd clear of tourqe king because i feel they are same parts for twice the cost Looking to fab a spin on filter set up from scratch on passenger pto position. Offcourse the damn internet led me here to this circus. God i hste to love this damn place.

Yeah I called DAP last week. They said they would check the wearhouse and call me back. Never called back. But i emailed in and they said I need a HX35-HE351 Adapter Sweet! It goes from 3" to 4 3/8" Awesome!

Might try contacting DAP

New to this forum, but not the cummins forum. I bought this truck a month ago, turbo bearings are shot. I bought a Borg Warner K27 turbo. Truck is set up with a 4 inch down pipe with an HX40 4 3/8" Flange. I need an adapter to go from 3" inch ( stock size ) up to the 4 3/8" flange. I've called several diesel specialty shops. No luck.