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We are privately owned, with access to a professional Diesel Mechanic, who can provide additional support for Dodge Ram Cummins Diesel vehicles. Many detailed information is FREE and available to read. However, in order to interact directly with our Diesel Mechanic, Michael, by phone, via zoom, or as the web-based option, Subscription Plans are offered that will enable these and other features. Go to the Subscription Page and Select a desired plan. At any time you wish to cancel the Subscription, click Subscription Page, select the 'Cancel' button, and it will be canceled. For your convenience, all subscriptions are on auto-renewal.
JJSNOW sent me this PMso I asked Mike Nelson to get it Posted for @JJSNOW....
My dually 98.5 ram 3500 5.9 turbo diesel has been down since May. I have spent thousands and thousands on parts. I have replaced every part per mechanics request from the injector pump, every sensor on the truck and now I am told that I need to send my PCM off. I don't have the money to continue this journey. I love my truck. It is for me. A guy hit me and I had just received a check to have it fixed. After purchasing my new bed (which is still in Mississippi and not picked up yet), new carpet, finished my stereo system, immediately had to start buying these parts. I was so excited to finally get it all prettied up and then this!
The mechanic is a very good friend of mine but I am very suspicious sometimes on his motives so now I am asking you to tell me what I need to do. I have caught him in some untruths. Last week he said we needed to put it on a more detailed scanner. Now mind you he has worked his *** off. But I asked him if _____'s Garage had a scanner. He said yes and he would run by there. When he got back he said "they don't rebuild PCMs they send them off." I was just blown away that was not why he went down there! When things don't make sense to me they are usually lies! I sat him down and got him to give me a list of the symptoms:
1. Alternator not charging.
2. Gauges not working.
3. Odometer blinking code 920, 921, 999.
4. OBDM port not responding to a scanner.
5. No throttle position sensor (and I can't read the next word)
6. Short in wiring harness going to the alternator.
7. No reverse lights and all other lights working.
Because I am a girl and blonde I have had numerous mechanics lie and take thousands and thousands of dollars from me. Some of them screaming the name of Jesus on Sunday and taking my $100 dollar bills every other day of the week. And some of these things I should have been smarter!
I am ready to give up on this truck. Its loud, its powerful, it pulls my horses down the road like there is nothing behind it yet it has broke me, and I think all this may have even broken my cowgirl spirit. It has completely exhausted me to the point of considering selling my horse farm which I have lived on my entire life but without a truck I am dead in the water. I have worked my own fingers to the bone my entire life to have the farm and the horses I have now... I have had a horse since I was 3 and right now I have the nicest horses I have ever owned yet I can't do anything but feed them. I know this sounds very dramatic but I promise I have been through things and somehow still managed to keep this place and doing it all alone. I say all that to describe how overwhelmed and beat down I am. I can't afford some fancy truck when I am struggling already after Covid took my business out two years ago.
Can you please help me. If you can't help me with my truck point me in the right direction to see a psychiatrist because that is exactly how bad this daily bull crap has affected me. I will be forever indebted to you!
Always, JJ @JJSNOW