2nd Generation Dodge 24 Valve Powertrain

I read an article here about modifying our existing battery trays to accommodate 31’s. I pondered it but I decided to go another, more expensive route for some reason. LRB Speed makes “put together yourself” aluminum ones for $400. I run 925 CCA Detroit Diesel batteries (from my work) and I’m pretty happy. They’re made well and even a proper spot for the temp sensor on the driver side tray. I had to relocate my horns but other then that they fit and lined up great. With my Nations 180 amp alternator I feel it’s a good combo. My old 27’s were 750 CCA if I remember correctly. This will help with running my Webasto coolant heater I have as well running in cold mornings. E…

A major short between the ears caused me to lose the majority of my coolant on my drive this morning. I pulled over after seeing mist coming from under the hood. Upper radiator hose was disconnected. My temperature gauge was reading just above the upper line on the sweep but not yet to the red. Engine sounded and performed fine up to me shutting it down. I added about 2 gallons of water back into the radiator and reconnected the hose and finished the trip without issue. Oil on the dipstick didn't look contaminated. I'm hopeful my engine survived my mistake with no ill effects. Is there anything on it that I should check at this point?

Hi All, Dreaded issue I'm sure everyone has heard about. I am hours in to diagnosis and unsure if I am even on the correct track. Please excuse any ignorance or missed steps, I am doing the best I can with the limited skills I have. Backstory - Truck sat idle for a few years. Runs great. Tachometer is the only gauge that works. I have the "Wait to Start" light. PCM was sent out and rebuilt, signs of over-voltage. New alternator was put in, and the in line fuse protection from this forum was installed. Went to start the truck and I briefly saw the fuel gauge work with key on power. Grabbed a new battery as the old wasn't enough to crank and I am back to the original is…

Hi there - Several different issues just started, and I'm not sure how to begin addressing these. Hoping that folks with a good understanding of the 24V can help sift through the symptoms and see to the core of the problems. Looking for help organizing and figuring out if there is an underlying root problem that's causing the other issues. Vehicle: 2001 Ram 2500, 5.9L High Output Cummins, 4x4, 292K miles. I only have about 3k miles on it myself since I bought it. Don't have a great idea of what was done to it before. As far as I can tell, the engine and powertrain are in a stock configuration. History: Until January of this year, it was always quick to start with mini…

I have always had a manual on all of my 2nd gen cummins trucks, mainly due to the obvious reason's we all know with dodge transmissions, to include failure, reliability, strength, and PRICE (auto), especially when you add any power to it. So now I am trying to do a crash course on auto transmission in 2nd gens cause I am clueless on everything/anything with them. Man this is making me feel so dumb... Gonna be trying to learn about lockup, torque converter stall, billet this and billet that, what auto parts, auto computers or tuners?, etc... I am so so so tempted to put a nv4500 in this build, just for the availability and strength! Please reference 24v 1500 Cummins Thr…

Yup after all the years and miles driven I've had a bad speaker on the passenger side. @Tweety Bird said, "Get this fixed! Time to get new speakers in Beast!" @Tweety Bird and I went to a stereo shop in Lewiston ID to look at speakers and prices. Great quality is really pricey say like $350 for a pair of speakers that really sound rich in frequency. Being budget mined I jumped over to Amazon and found. Kicker Dodge Ram Truck 1994-2011 Speaker Bundle - CS 6x9 coaxial Speakers, and CS 5.25" coaxial Speakers. Yeah Dodge and there strange wiring schemes. I'll list out the positive and negative wiring for each speaker. You can see I cut the factory OEM speaker plug off and…

Need some help. I have an issue with my truck where it will progressively hiccup then stall. Truck is a 99' 2500 auto 4wd shortbed If I start the truck and change to gear, after 4 minutes truck will start hiccupping and it will hiccup in intervals of exactly 5.4 seconds where they progressively get worse. After about a dozen or so it's bad enough that it's able to stall. If I start and stay in idle, wait 5 minutes, change to gear, it will immediately stall. The predictability is truck start -> 5 minutes pass -> will stall. However: I can circumvent it by applying and holding throttle for about 5-10 seconds. If I do this before, during, or after that hiccupping …

Hello, I am new here. my son bought a O2 24 valve Cummins a number of months ago without knowing much about it history. We've been trying to figure out what's going on with this ghost revving. Without touching the gas pedal after you start it it'll start quickly jumping up to higher RPMs sometimes getting a little scary and staying there. It worried us enough to where we brought it to our local mechanic.. he had it for over a month flushed all the fluids and did some other maintenance, but ultimately couldn't figure out the main problem we brought it in for. I've had it back home for a couple weeks and I have ordered and installed a new genco alternator., installed a new…

So.. if you haven't checked it out... do... Android and Apple... That being said, do the fuel lanes for semi's have DIFFERENT diesel than the auto lanes? I've been using the APP and filling up at the SEMI lanes but have lost about 3mpg when I do... SEMI lanes gets me 15 mpg and auto lanes get me 18ish MPG.... WHERE I get the fuel is the only difference.. Comments?

2000 2500 Dana 80 rear axle. What should my pinion bearing preload measure with tires and brake drums removed. I forgot to measure it before taking it apart.

Good afternoon, I put a titanium fass lift pump along with a Fleece sureflo sending unit on my 2001 pickup about a year and a half ago. It’s been flawless for a few thousand miles. I had been noticing some slow starts when warm. Not bad just a few more revolutions than what was normal. I put some NAPA cross referenced fuel filters on because I didn’t have FASS replacements and didn’t have the time to wait . I started to take a trip recently and fuel pressure dropped significantly. I got the truck home and parked it for a month . I wasn’t real confident about the NAPA filters so i replaced with the direct replacement FASS filters. Test drove the truck for an hour or so and…

The purpose of this thread, at least in its infancy, is to document what is happening and my plans of action to fix it. I feel like its a 'rare' problem (in that I cant find another thread with the exact same issue), it is certainly unique! As of the day of this rambling, the truck is just under 114k miles. 2001 2500, auto, stock, 4x4, loaded, etc.. Previously I had a thread wherein my grandpa still owned the truck and he was having the usual TC/OD issues. Never really did figure out what was causing that as the descriptions I had to work with were challenging at best, but I did the TPS signal wire TEE mod earlier this year, or whatever its called, from the TPS directly…

I’m pretty sure this has been covered, but I can’t find it. So the way I understand this the alternator feed into the PDC is eliminated. There is a 140 amp fusible link between the two hot leads going into the PDC what is the purpose of this? Do I need to bring that second lead going into the PDC to the driver side battery or is this not needed?

Can someone please direct me to the write up on this or share a link. I’ve been all over looking for it.

Greetings, Long time listener, firl time caller here. TLDR: When cold, the transmission sometimes stalls the engine, but only once. Trans new - Firepunk, billet torque converter. EDIT - No Codes present Video with the issue posted on bottom of this post. So I recently moved back to the states from a long stint living overseas, and I picked up a 99 4x4 A/T truck. Power wise, the truck is completely stock apart from an Edge EZ the PO installed. Everything was great, except the trans would not lockup in O/D. Following many suggeestions from here that could have an effect on the lockup, I realized this was a torque converter issue. I ended up deciding to bite the bullet an…

So my insulation between my tappet cover and ecm was completely shot. I'd there a real need to replace this?

I've seen that some of the tappet covers have a breather on them. Mine has a little box the sticks out near the back, with a plate there on the inside. No clue on the purpose of that. But just wondering if there would be any reason to add a breather there like some have

I’m having troubles finding a wiring diagram for the main harness into the power distribution center on a 2001 Dodge cummins. See attached photo. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Beast lost his hydrobooster while my wife and I were down in Boise. While I was down in Boise, I made the call and got a hydrobooster ordered, thinking just direct replacement. Nope! Be aware... The documents in the box from NAPA are very clear; you need to swap parts from your old unit to make the new unit work. The shaft that pushes the master cylinder, you might have to swap as I did. The new shaft was 10mm too long, which is the brake dragging issue. Then the rubber boot on the input shaft has be pryed off the input shaft collar. Yea! I got that. Then, the adapter plate that mounts the brake reservoir / master cylinder. The removal was fairly straightforward. 15…

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. T…