Mopar1973Man

That is going to be one of the coolest trucks in history. I took notice of the 11 YEARS this thread has been going on regarding your custom build Cummins truck. I'm sitting here waiting for another bag of popcorn to watch this come together.

Titanium's story continues in public. I've got followers all over the place. At Starbucks coffee in McCall, the two gals who work there started to ask questions about my appearance with my colored wigs and makeup. When I was done explaining the story of my cancer, they both were impressed with my ideas of heading towards a Goth/Emo/Alt appearance. While I was still in the Albertson store, which has Save-On Drugs and the Starbucks coffee, two kids stopped me to tell me they loved my hair color. Compliments from other people are truly amazing. Today, I had to run into town to handle some banking for us. I ran into an old client I had worked with on his Toyota, and he gave great comments about me wearing my Victorian Tail Coat and basic black makeup. He told me to stay in touch and stop by once in a while. Then I stopped by the Riggins One Stop fuel station. I needed to drain the ostomy bag. While I was there, I said hi to the staff, and one gentleman who lives in the RV park out back gave me wonderful comments about my appearance. After he understood the story of my cancer, he fully supported my dress code and makeup artistry. He's now a follower on TikTok. No, my other passion for makeup artistry will never stop at this point. Even my wife loves the aspect that I'm doing makeup and getting rather good at it. As for all my abilities, like Computer repair and Network Administrator, Diesel Mechanic, and now cosplay and makeup artistry. I've made the choice that I'm just roll along and enjoy life to the best of my abilities. This means slowly start building articles as a diesel mechanic, but it will be rare to find photos now of me without a wig or makeup. Nearly 3 years of doing makeup artistry.

Finally, I'm getting back to doing things with the trucks. Beast has been rolling on a blown radiator for 2 years with a 200℉ with zero pressure. Yeah, I bought time (too much) and just clipped off the vacuum breaker part of the radiator cap. Now I'm getting the radiator installed in Beast and have a 16 PSI pressure once again. First off I gotta show off my mini shop for now so I can keep our vehicles in working order. It's tiny but its dry space somewhat. We are still sorting out stuff and getting @Tweety Bird moved into the house. The garage here in the main house is small. Let's get that coolant drained. Opps! this a screw plug type of drain. Unscrew the drain and then still your hand in front of the stream and deflect the flow into the 5-gallon bucket. Yup, a mess. Typical removal, nothing out of the ordinary. The new radiator is fully assembled and ready to drop into the truck. I got the new radiator all installed and pulled the 200℉ thermostat and saw the inside of the block at 501k miles. Well water and coolant is doing awesome, barely any surface rust on the cast block. Just a tip to all of you that do a radiator drain and flush, just make sure to pull the thermostat and replace it while you're there. The refill can be done with the thermostat out, so the block can burp air out quickly. Nice green hue with a 50/50 mixture of coolant. Now drop in the thermostat and run the three 8mm bolts back in snug.

Hurry but don't hurry... You are killing me with this project build. I wanna see the color and final on the interior. That should be a high class truck.

Try find one that shows the voltage of the PSG. I'm not sure but some of those seem like they would be simple logic answers being true/false or 1/0 responses.

Cummins Insite tool? Dodge DRBIII tool? Dodge StarScan? Only thing I think will have VP44 data regarding power at the PSG.

Quadzilla can read the ECM voltage.

South side of Riggins and go up a dead end road for 17 miles. YUP! It's one hell of a drive.

Funny part of this marriage. I had to have the cancer and the ostomy bag to meet Suzanna, my wife. If I'd been a healthy person, I'd never have met her. She enjoys the thought that I dealt with my depression with makeup artistry and cosplay. This helped me deal with the health crisis (bladder cancer and chemo treatments) I was dealing with at the time. I started making up artistry back in 2022 as a fun thing for the weekend. Now it's part of my daily dress code. Suzanna has enjoyed the interactions I get everywhere I go, hence why the photo above shows us both enjoying the makeup work, and will continue to grow together with our own art. The makeup artistry is what captured her eye that day, and why we are together. Being we both went through our own hell, we plan on holding the celebration next year in late spring or early summer. Hopefully, by July 25th 2026, we can be on top of Heaven's Gate, where you have to drive through Seven Devils Mountain to reach this mountain top.

Injectors are back in, and Thor is once again running. I know I still have low compression in at least one cylinder, but Thor is running. Thor now brings more to the table for article building. I've got axle joints to do in the front axle soon. Winter is coming, and limited shelter to work in. Yeah, Mark said the front driver side wheel joint is shot. I'm enjoying Thor even though it smokes as it warms up, but a short ride down the road it smoothes out and runs well for the rest of the day.

Thanks. 🤣

Im going to have to show off my setup. Not great but it is what it is.