Mopar1973Man

Beast has developed a problem with the hydrobooster being the main booster piston; the seal failed, and even brake pedal usage was leaking hydraulic fluid from the hydrobooster. There is a bleed hole on the bottom of the unit. This was just replaced, as the article was created in the 2nd Gen brake and axle category. That particular day, I was wearing my black hair and basic black makeup. Then on Thor, it was a matter of replacing the battery terminals. Using the really basic tools I do have after the landslide its rather challenging to do some jobs because you just don't have the right tool and needs to be done. All the factory lead terminals were cut off with a dull hacksaw. Then trimmed back to find copper wire. Clean any corrosion off the wire before crushing copper lugs to the wire. Improved the starting and power stability for this truck since the passenger cable was held on with a C-clamp. That day, I was enjoying my red hair and flame colored eyes. Some of you wonder why still. The makeup work of Titanium becomes a line in the sand for me for protection for myself. Knowing my ostomy bag is there, I must keep my bag area and my hands clean. My dress code limits me from rolling in the mud or dirt to do work. Remember, the landslide took my shop and the dry space I had. The last 2 days here have been raining so no work was done last two days because of zero dry space to work. I'm going to continue to produce as many articles as I can with my limitations. You have to remember my right kidney is only 17% remaining and my left is 82% remaining.

Not a prob.

ATF+4 is typically used with factory transmissions for the fact it has a lot of friction modifier which makes the clutches and bands slip for the soft shifts. Dextron/Mercon typically does not have the heavy amount of friction modifier so there is a sudden grab of clutches. Stalling issues till the ATF thins out some. Manual Transmission Tidbit... Here is what I know even manuals. Since I went up in power (500 HP) I wanted better cling to the gears so went from 75W-80 to 50 SAE which is actually 90wt gear lube. It stopped wear on hard facing of the gears. So in your case you need to find a fluid that keeps up in high temperature (protecting clutches and gears) then to have cold weather characteristics that flow good to prevent stalling. Brands and different blends of friction modifier might help. That's the tough part enough slip not to stall but sticky enough not burn bands and clutches.

You can tear all of that out. Firewall mat and cowl included. Bad idea from the factory being it dumps all the dust into the engine every time the valve cover comes off. No need to replace.

Consider doing a compression test. This will show the piston rings issues quickly. On gas engine we would add squirt of oil in each cylinder it would produce higher compression score that notes bad rings. Im not sure anyone could do it with 24V hole and not drop the oil in the bowl of the piston.

Thor now has a full set of military terminals, and the copper lugs are all crushed on. Sadly, my crimping tool is not designed for large copper lugs like 2/0 and 0 AWG wire sizes, so it pinched the copper on one side, but still made a solid lugs. Improved starting performance, it spins over stronger now. I no longer see power fluctuations like before. There is a few thing I'm going to do is reroute the positive lead for the TIPM so its no longer hanging up the fuse box cover. Driver Side battery Passenger Side Battery

Could you grab a live data tool and check the IAT temperature with the ECT temperature and see if it a real temperature issue or not (electrical problem maybe?) As for the engine not shutting off there is some sort of electrical issues that is keeping the ignition up. I can say if there is a Quadzilla tuner on board and you happened to jump start your dead battery you could of shorted out the Quadzilla, and the engine will not shut off till you unplug the Quadzilla tuner.

You're basically covering up a piston ring(s) issue, typically or bad tuning. Why? Well, normally, these trucks will not produce excessive crankcase pressure or blowby gases. Now, someone who runs worn injectors, then your timing could be advanced by the weaker springs in the injectors. Now, you're creating this extra blow by. might see more slobber of oil out of the crankcase vent (gear case vent). I suggest keeping injectors changed out at 100k miles. After that point your rolling the dice. For every 10 bar of pop pressure loss is about 1 degree of advancement. If your injectors haven't been changed in over 100k miles, I'd start there. Yea,h sadly, the only reason I know to add more vent/filter to the valve cover is that the factory breather is not keeping up because of the vacuum line disconnected (added pressure from the vacuum pump), poor rings on the pistons, worn injectors with low pop pressure (less than 293 bar). Now, like Thor, I have a bad ring in Thor, and Thor starts and runs, but the exhaust is white smoke from the low compression, and there is extra crankcase pressure on Thor from the blowby, and the blowby isn't bad, but still it would help to have an extra vent at that point, but... Better to fix the problem. Yeah, I've got plans to rebuild that 2006 in the future. First problem, I need a shop to work in once again. Another trick is you could create a vent pipe to keep the slobbering down some. Remember, this will not fix excessive blow-by.

I show up... The member who pops up in this type of stalling issue is @pepsi71ocean he had a DTT transmission built and had a similar issue with stalling. It turns out that the torque converter is too low of a stall with the temperatures. If your valve body has the mod done to pump in park, it would help with warming the fluid up, making it a bit thinner before you shift into Drive or Reverse. The problem is that the fluid is thick and cold, and the low stall converters don't do well in cold climates at all. Basically, the best choice is to set the parking brake and put the transmission in Neutral to get the pump flowing. As the pump is flowing, you have the heat exchanger on the passenger side, which should bring warmth to the fluid faster. Give that a shot and see if that helps out.

When you find the magic timing on the Quadzilla it should make it hard to warm up just got to add more miles till warmed up.

Tip for next time: leave the thermostat out of the head till the coolant is full to that point. Install the thermostat and top off with more 50/50 mix coolant. 200℉ is not bad for oil temperature, but was the block temperature hotter? Could you do a write up for the brake lines if possible? I'll make it worth your while. 200℉ Thermostat. So you are going for the higher temperature as well. Let me know how its working for you. I'm still running my Gates 200℉ and no issues to report. Excellent heat in the wintertime and excellent idle performance after extended idle times, it might get a bit smoky the first day till it fully warms up. I'm still running so efficiently that idle will not even warm up the block to even close to open the thermostat (Coolant temps 155℉ to 170℉ and outside temp of barely 35℉)

Wound up delaying the install, finding out the wiring map supplied by Mopar FSM is actually incorrect for some of the battery gauge sizes the 3rd Generation truck are actually 2/0 AWG cable not the stated 0 AWG. Lost most of my warm part of the day going back to get the right rings for this project.

That's so true. Back in the 1990s, I had a long ponytail I kept for many years. Then, after getting stuck under a truck (Beast), I cut the tail off mostly. I kept a shorter version for a long time, too. Then got snagged under a truck again. I chopped it off completely about 2 years before my cancer. Then cancer made me bald. The wigs and colored hair just became fun for me, since I was bald and sick from the chemo. Now I've gotten my hair back, but I can't dye bright colors or even bleach it out because my hair falls out from chemical exposure. I became a master of wearing wigs and having a colorful style after a doctor told me my life could be shortened if the cancer spreads. At that point, I didn't care what the world thought; it was my way of handling a very stressful moment in time, and do it with a Gothic style flair.

Today I'm going to get myself together and get out and do the battery terminals on Thor. Yeah, it's a cold start here this morning. It's going to be a warmer day heading into the mid 50's at least. I want to get the new battery terminal and copper lugs installed today. I figured I would check over the website. @yohon and his rebuild, and helping out where I can. Every day can be a battle for me. I love what I can do, but my body tells me all about it when I try too hard. This is the depressing part for me, doing simple things, but still have to keep my hands clean, so if I have to touch my ostomy bag. (infection risk) This is part of the risk that the other categories will be added to the site. Remember, I'm working in the mud at this point, and certain jobs I just CANNOT do, such as the ostomy bag and infection risk. Those days I cannot work outside on vehicles. I got to have something else to do, so I brought the Computer knowledge to the table and then the fun side of my makeup artistry, which has blown up to +780 followers on TikTok. I'm trying to move more back to my website. Again, I lose ownership of my video and photos when posted on other websites. I own my own webspace, use it! I'm still the same guy who knows tons about the Cummins trucks, but I cannot do the wrench work at a commercial level any longer. I still want to help people, just with the whole loss of my shop and nowhere to even work on my own stuff makes it super rough. This is why posting slowed down for me was depressing to want to build an article, but have no shop and cold weather, and mud to work in. Those days I tend to just stay in and practice my makeup artistry, which today I'm going to do red for another purpose, but I need some photos. Then, since my wife told me to build us a business-class network, I did, and I've learned so much about the Linux operating system and the networking equipment. Amazing to have internet quality tha blow most away! I want to share what I have left. The Titanium and Cloud 10 Computers are open to messages for registered users (unpaid). Please don't post diesel questions in these areas, we will delete those posts.