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But..., before you replace any parts - make sure the transfer case shifter is NOT in neutral. Just sayin'... John

Sadly I'm not sure. I would say its time to pull the entire transmission out and check the clutches and bands. How many miles on the transmission? Any error codes or check engine light? When was the last time it was serviced (fluid change and filter)? With the 46RE, 47RE and 48RE are basically the A727 transmission with an upgrade of 4th gear. Now that being said, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gears are all hydrualic shifts. THe 4th gear is "E"lectric shift. If there is no movement, I would start with pressure testing to see if the pump is producing enough pressure. You might want to stop by the DDownload section grab a service manual. 46RE, 47RE and 48RE 4 gears forward 6,7, or 8 the amount of torque on a scale of 0 to 9 Rear wheel drive Electric 4th gear shift. Here is my transmission book for the 48RE.

Today I managed to get the passenger side shaft out. I ran down to Steve Crump Service Center in Riggins hoping to use his torch to cut the trunion out of the shaft. That way the cap just need to be driven through (inward) to get the caps out. The other part of this trick is the cap has been heated by the torch and the expansion of heat hopefully broke the caps free. Sadly Steve's torch was not working correctly and the cutting part of the torch not getting enough oxygen to cut I think the nozzle was plugged up partially. I got rained out and returned home and inside to stay warm.

Thanks. I need to do the wheel joint super bad right now, the passenger side shaft is starting to wobble in the axle tube. Yeah, super good on the bearings and seals. Yeah, I know, but when you've been living off of 3 figures (small), you can't afford to buy much at times for repairs. Most of this was supposed to be done last year when I was shutting down the shop to the public for the winter, then CANCER for 2023 Christmas, and blew the entire priority list, and all went on hold. Then, toss in the mudslide and no tools for over 4 months, and trying to do even a brake job on the rear axle was super difficult without proper sockets or tools. Most of my funds went ot keeping me alive with food and fuel to make my chemo treatments. Everything stopped for Beast and Thor. I want to focus strictly on the website from here on out. I want to return to what I enjoy doing, even if it's just website work. I'm fine with that. Just yesterday's attempt at getting Thor's injectors out has me hurting pretty good in my lower back and hips. Yeah, I've lost a lot of strength from being laid up, and my ability to work for long hours is over. I cannot do 8 to 10-hour days any longer. 3-4 hours is pushing it. I cheat at times at get friends like Mark Hall to do some of the grunt work, pulling tires and heavy stuff to keep me safe. If I to lean over the front radiator support is hard on me because of my stoma location, and so easy to puncture my ostomy bag, which I did last week. Yeah to start walking around and wonder why your right pant leg is getting wet. Ugh! Being I lost the ATV in the landslide, we opted to keep me in a heated cab of a pickup to plow snow from the driveway. This is why I need to do the wheel joints on Beast because after we get the plow blade hardware, Beast will be used to keep the driveway cleared this winter. I wanted to use Thor, but Thor is going to need an engine rebuild in time since it has one bad cylinder for piston rings. (Ugh!) Yeah, this is so much to do with both trucks this fall, it's insane. Just remember, I lost EVERYTHING in that landslide (tools, supplies, parts, special tools, etc.) Then in the meantime @Tweety Bird and I are still trying to catch a break and get married yet!

SO...after 15 years, my fuel pressure sensor is dying. Called EDGE and they suggested a replacement sensor: 4000700 for $90. Not being able to 100% sure tell me it would work with the Attitude... Any suggestions on this? alternate sensors, alternate fuel pressure/EGT gauges? I am down to only using the Attitude to monitor these two things and would seriously consider changing to a 2 in one guage.... the JUICE module is apparently dead.

Good grief, that’s a heck of a to-do list. I was using a pop up canopy to keep the sun off my back while my truck was down. Could save you from some rain if you can’t get in your shop.

For all you guys and gals that wish to learn about Linux Servers and PC's, I'm going to help anyone learn this environment. Thankfully, I've got a few supporters who helped out in purchasing 2 new workstations and a Server. WORKSTATIONS ASUS Motherboard 7G WiFi (6G WiFi Head here in the house) 2.5 GBit CAT6 ready networking Thunderbolt 3 Port 30 GBit USB port (Type C) nVidia Video Card (32 GB) AI Ready 4 TB M.2 SSD Hard drive 1,000 Watt Power Supply 27" Flat screen montor Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Desktop series) SERVERS ASUS Motherboard 7G WiFi (6G WiFi Head here in the house) 2.5 GBit CAT6 ready networking Thunderbolt 3 Port 30 GBit USB port (Type C) 4x 4 TB M.2 SSD Hard drive 1,000 Watt Power Supply Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS Software No video card (Using on Board HDMI port) SERVER CONTROLLED Canon MF4150 Laser Printer (Network black printer) HP Officejet Color Printer (Network Color printer) TPLink Network Switch (28 Port PoE - 250 Watt PoE) 2 Security Cameras Verizon Cell Signal Extender 6G Indoor WiFi 5G Outdoor WiFi Starlink INTERNET PROVIDER Starlink Now, as for the setup of these workstation machines. The two workstations were assembled with hardware and loaded up with standard Ubuntu 24.04 LTS software. These machines are quiet in noise level and run at very cool temperatures even under heavy workload. Now both workstations are set up to back up all data to the server once a week. No loss of important data. I can even pair my phone to the workstation, so when there are cell phone calls it will show up on my desk monitor and allow me to respond to even text messages right on the PC. Being that it is Linux, there aren't any drivers to load for any of this stuff; everything just works out of the box, typically. I did run into a startup issue where the motherboard picked the HDMI port but refused to use the common DisplayPort. Then Ubuntu made an error and used the freeware version of video drivers instead of the nVidia driver supplied by Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After a small setting tweak on the additional drivers page in settings, it now works fine. These two workstations are now capable of processing heavy content like video editing, which my 20-year-old desktop couldn't even play a video file from my phone without hanging and glitching out. I'm capable of moving heavy tasks like backup or internet workloads to the server. So instead of calling for a full website backup on my desktop, choking the browser with heavy network traffic, I can move this task over to the server and let it run in the background. Now our workstations are freed of the heavy workloads. My network here at the house is powered by Starlink Internet, which has plenty of bandwidth to handle everything for a good price. As for my server cabinet. Just seems like there is an idle machine sitting there. Not true! This machine is constantly recording any movement in my yard, day or night. We have video feed of anything that moves out there, including the bugs that trip the cameras at night. As for network traffic being I'm using a managed switch I'm capable of load balancing the internet to over 50 devices all at once. I've set up a network that only the 3 family members have full access to everything here, including both printers, cameras, and even personal cloud storage on my server. This machine runs 24/7, providing the internet for the Verizon Extender. There is a public WiFi account that is without a password for others to use at any time. If you have Verizon service, you can hop on the extender without WiFi and still make a 4G LTE phone call. In my area, with a landslide. Many people are without a landline phone in the area. Yup, Ziply Fiber has been notified several times by all 3 of us here and both of my neighbors. Most people around me switched to Starlink per my advice and continued phone service based on Starlink WiFi. I want to offer up my knowledge on networking to people that would like to build something more than internet and PC. Asny questions just ask!

I'm sorry, gang, I've been randomly missing in action from time to time, but with everything going on, it's tough to be at home for long periods, then when I'm home, to get wrapped up with the dirt work all this last summer. Winter weather is coming, I need a 4wd truck! With winter setting in, @Tweety Bird and I will be home more! Cancer-wise wise I'm doing well, 1.5 years clean of cancer. Beast made the 500k milestoneNow Beast is going to require some work to get fixed up, being I've abused the old truck for a while, being short on funds during my cancer treatment. I've got a list of things I need to do, and I want to get busy with a little bit of funds to fix Beast. The crazy part is that this week is going to be off and on rain showers. I got to work in the rain. Still to this day, I do not have a shop and no dry space yet. This is another project task. Personally, @Tweety Bird and I are attempting to unpack the garage of @Tweety Bird stuff so I can have dry space to work on the vehicles to keep them running. Front axle wheel joints New tires (245/ 75 R16) Fix the hydraulic leak (power steering) Fix my transmission temp gauge Properly install my dash camera Install my upgraded high idle kit from DAP Front and rear main seals of the crank Replace the dash top and dash bezel Repair my driver's seat edge (torn) Replace the rear bumper (crushed on the passenger side) Repair the body damage on the rear passenger side (dummy me hit a dumpster backing up one night) Fisher V-Plow snow blade for Beast (since the landslide destroyed my ATV and plow blade)

After a weekend of testing I still have a very random grid heater light once again. I did find that the crossover tube nut on #2 was either missing while I torque them to value or it backed off during the last cycle. I'm not sure why or how but it happened. So to cover my tail, DAP told me to send them back for testing. Yesterday I got 1 through 5 removed and got to crawl up carefully and get number 6 done with the hoist ring and injection line removed. I'll get those boxed up today and get them heading back.

Ever since the landslide that wiped out my shop, displaced my good friend Mark Hall and his dog Hachi into my basement bedroom. It's been complete hell trying to find tools that remain and attempting to repair vehicles and house repairs, too. It's been a bad summer, and it just seems to get worse here at home, and frustrating. Winter is coming, and snow is not far away now. Just want to close this chapter and attempt a better start in the spring of the year. The last few months have been a pain in the tail. Asking people to go get firewood, and we will pay them. Then have one person who brought 2 cords at $200 a cord. Great, we have a bit of firewood. Sadly this person knew me and played my heartstrings and asked if I would front him the money so he could be with his family in the hospital. Of course I did! Sucker!!! I've been taken advantage of again! He never delivered the promised 3 cords of wood. There is so much more to even talk about. Simply put, it has just been a rough year between having bladder cancer, losing my bladder and prostate, then having the mudslide destroy my shop and guest house. I'm hoping Dischinger can help out just one more time to blade a driveway for me, and so I can mark off my septic tanks and hopefully keep people off the top of my tanks this winter. The yard is a total mud pit for now. That's fine too, because I don't even have a lawn to mow right now. It's all been trashed by the trackhoe and skidsteer. I still have a huge pile of dirt and garbage to sort through in time. Let me toss in a bit of good news. @Tweety Bird and I will be getting married, which was supposed to happen this summer, but the entire landslide and house move ruined that timing. We as planning on a simple courthouse wedding for now to get the legal parts done with. Hopefully, God willing, we will have the celebration up on Heaven Gate Summit by next summer. Second bit of good news, my kidneys are healing very slowly, and some of the herbal stuff I've found is helping heal them up. There is a bit more... Finally, after a lot of hassle with Home Depot, I could replace my toolbox and get a base set of tools. I'll admit the price of tools is expensive to start over this way. Ugh! The first order I made didn't work out, and I had to rebuild the order a second time, and the shipping cost doubled. I called Home Depot to get them to help out with building the second order. Ok, everything is waiting to ship. Shipping starts, and the toolbox was last. Finally, we get a phone call for Home Depot. They wanted to inform me that the toolbox was damaged and they are willing to cut some price off and just sell it to me. Then, 2 hours later, I got a second call to inform me that the toolbox was too badly damaged to sell, so they canceled the order and refunded the funds. We ended up heading to Lewiston, ID, to deal with this. Sadly, it wasn't don't good at the start, but we got the manager to step up and reorder the toolbox for me. As for Thor, I'm going to start working on the project truck and start to hopefully build information for CR engines.

Long intermission... I return! After a lot of phone calls, a trip to Lewiston, ID, and waiting for freight. I finally got a toolbox and my base set of tools. Finally got to look Thor over and figure out the grid heater light issue. So I was pulling injectors, and #2 crossover nut was backed up to the injection line. I figure reassemble and try again, hoping I solved the issue this time. Nope, after 70 to 100 miles, it will trip the grid heater light. I gave Lenny a quick call, and he still wants them sent back for inspection.

Here is the video @CH123 posted to my PM box. https://photos.app.goo.gl/qGaBgUBK9mxsUXo5A

His video has the classic touch the throttle jumps to high idle with zero control. Typically a bad PSG being the data is not reaching the PSG correctly and is being dropped. This is confirmed with the P1689 code. Throttle info not being listen too since it started and runs this shows the power is available but no data from the ECM.

Thanks John. All is correct and I will add two things to your summary- The truck is slowly becoming more difficult crank. Once it fires though, it idles fine. Even at 1400 rpm the truck will barely move. Power is not transferring through the drivetrain. @Mopar1973Man - I can forward you the video I sent John.

@Mopar1973Man , maybe you can assist here. Please review this thread and give us your thoughts. Symptoms are: engine idles fine, or jumps to 1,400 rpm when the throttle is slowly pressed. Engine rpm doesn't change while depressing throttle further. Engine has the following DTC's: P 1693 is a companion code - no concern. P0122 - Accelerator Pedal Position Sensor Signal Voltage Too Low P1689 - No Communication Between ECM & Injection Pump Module ECM and PCM has been checked by Auto Computer Specialists. Scanner show that APPS signal is 0% at idle and ramps smoothly through the throttle application range. @CH123 , please make any corrections if I misstated something. John

Hope this helps for battery wire sizes. John

On the Dodge FSM it will list wire colors and gauge size.

Is there a reference that shows what wire gauges are used? I'll need to order terminal lugs for each of the wires going to the battery terminals. I've measure OD of the insulation but don't know how thick the insulation is. I know the largest is 2/0, and think ground wires may be 10awg, but not sure. Not sure of the others.

Here is how the CCD Network works and the wiring map for it all. https://mopar1973man.com/cummins/articles.html/24-valve-2nd-generation/engine/electrical/ccd-chrysler-collision-detection-data-bus-r329/?&do=getNewComment&d=4&id=329

For a long time, I’ve been trying to fix the dash issue of only having fuel level and battery voltage and speed, and the OBDll 1698 main relay control SC VBatt code and CCD on overhead module. In the beginning, I was able to disconnect the PCM module while the vehicle was running, and it would reset the dash and the overhead module. I sent the PCM out to Crites car Computer and when it can back I still had the same code 1698 main Relay so I sent it back again and still have the code1698 Main relay control sc vbatt and overhead module message CCD. The truck came with the edge performance module but never worked so I disconnected it. I purchased another OEM key fob but could never get it to program. My batteries are good. I replaced the cables on the batteries. I replaced the alternator and made sure it was a good one, which took like five different alternators testing at Napa. The noise suppressor from APPS was installed. The vehicle has the fuel pump attached to the frame rail and power supplied from the fuse panel under the hood. I have checked my bus voltage using a breakout box from the OBDll connector and it’s good. While testing the ECM connector I caused a spark and now the radio display is not always on but radio works. I have fixed the ground wire splice on the passenger side near the PCM. I have the cluster disconnected the bus wires to the radio disconnected the CTM module disconnected, the ABS disconnected, the Airbag disconnected, the overhead module disconnected and the module had a bug that created corrosion on the display pins. I tried a different overhead module from a wrecking yard truck and it will not even light up. With the 5 connectors disconnected and I erase the codes I still get 1698 $15 Main relay controlSC VBatt With 5modules disconnected will it cause the overhead module to display the CCD message or did the bug cause an issue?

I just checked with my scanner and the APPS appears to be working correctly. Shows 0% at idle and slowly climbs through the full range to 100% with the peddle. No erratic jumps or getting stuck anywhere.

I watched your video - good video. I noticed that as you depressed the accelerator pedal that the accelerator pedal traveled a more than normal distance to get a change in engine rpm, and that the change was sudden (jumped to 1,400 rpm). The idle validation switch is built into the APPS sensor. It appears to be working as the engine idles as it should. Do you have, or have access to a scanner that can read the APPS signal? If so, this could help diagnose whether or not the per cent of APPS signal follows the travel of the accelerator pedal. It could also show an abrupt signal change that times with the sudden rpm change when depressing the throttle. This test could help to determine if the APPS sensor should be replaced. APPS / ECM circuit is shown below: John

The APPS was replaced not long before this issue began. It was not a Timbo, but a lower cost aftermarket one. I suspect it could be causing issues here. Any guidance on where and how to test the idle validation switch? I'll message you a link to a video of the truck running to better show exactly what it's doing.

The ECM controls engine idle - all other sensors (including the APPS) are out of the loop when the engine is idling. However, you do need to make sure that the APPS is adjusted properly and that the idle validation switch is energized in order for the ECM to command engine idle. Since you have a code for the APPS (signal voltage too low), I would address this circuit first. John

The 4 stored codes I cannot seem to clear. I cleared the P0122 and P1689 that were pending and they came right back after starting the engine. To clarify, P0122 is stored twice.