Mopar1973Man

Wow. I never though of that one but Thank you for telling us. Next time I'll make sure to pass that one around as an idea...

Does the truck start and run?The thing in the ECM will run a modulated power supply (50% duty cycle) at cranking sometimes at starter bumps too. So if the truck starts and runs I would check the ECM lift pump lead while running to see if the power is constant 12V.

diesel4life hit it. Stock return lines are from the back of the head and the VP44 (overflow valve) that go to the brass tee at the back of the engine and drop down. Then head for the fuel tank.

Absolutely. I was born and raised in Mission Hills, CA (Just outside of Los Angeles). When my parents offer to allow me to join them on there adventure to Idaho. I said, "Sure why not?" It's been a heck of adventure and I've learned lot about people and myself as well. I've never per say held job to retire on but I've always created my own business and manage to pay the bills. Kind of like what is brewing for tomorrow. Get up in the morning get the house warmed up and take care of the web sites and email. Once I get breakfast and a shower pack up the 1996 Dodge with my laptop and software. Now take off for Riggins, ID and take care the city hall marquee sign. (Computer failed to boot). Then once done with that head over to my Buddy house (Kelly Hinkley) and pick him up and meet up with the Fire Chief at station 3. Now take care of station house maintenance. After that is done head back to town grab a bite and get ready for class. Then meet the fire chief back over at the City Hall for Fire Fighter training. By the time I'm done with all this I'll roll home at about 11pm at night. So I have to plan my days out so I never return home. Everything must be packed in the truck before I leave the house. This includes food, water, tools, any equipment (laptop, etc.), my fire turnouts, my fire radio on my hip, my multi-tool on my hip, typically pack my 9mm pistol also during the day too. If I get cell service I can call MoparMom let her know if a plan has change because of a fire call or something. But usually that doesn't happen unless I'm in the actually city limits of Riggins, ID. I might even get called out for Search & Rescue... Never know but I carry that pack in the truck as well for back up stuff just in case. Out here its not like you can hop out of the vehicle or stand along the road and make a cell call for 911. It doesn't happen... Even our fire radios are limited in some areas.

Subscribing. :thumb1:I'm thinking the same lines that Wild and Free is with using the 1996 Dodge Ram to tow either my BigTex 70TV or my Jayco Travel Trailer (less the water). It would be handy to have the 1996 step up to the plate as a secondary tow rig when the 2002 is down for repairs.

No way to for air to flow over the intercooler if the radiator face is blocked. You have to have a entry point and exit point for air to flow straight through. Air doesn't like to turn corners unless the far end has a low pressure point (hence a fan sucking air through a radiator or cooler).

92 6BT engine are really simple fuel systems. I would look at the diaphragm on the AFC and fuel pin and check it for holes, make sure the fuel pin isn't sticking. Since boost controls the fuel pin and the fuel makes or breaks the power I would check that out first.Stock air system on a 92 should have intercooler (air to air cooler) and already have a cold air intake in the front passenger side of the radiator support.

Thank you Tracy. It gives me hope that there is better people in the world. Still in all living in Idaho is nothing like living in large city or some of the other rural ares of the America. Very unusual set of circumstances like living next to 2 large wilderness areas, the only highway is US95 that runs north and south. Local town charge extremely high prices for food and fuel and other services. 90% of everything you need is from a large city so that means if you travel that far you better buy more. Even locally speaking just doing jobs and fire work you always pack way more tools and supplies because running back home or to town for something you forgot is going to cost you dearly in fuel and even time. Being that 95% of the canyon is without cell service its not like you can call a friend to bring it out to you. I've got a very special circumstance I've got to live with and have been doing so for 24 years now and not complaining... I love this spot in Idaho.

Not cost effective. Now I might of gain gas mileage but now sacrificed carry capacity for MPG's. So now where a VW will need to do 2 trip back and forth to carry the same load where the Dodge can 3-4 times the weight towing. Not to mention the extra cost insurance, maintenance, etc. This is one of the reasons I sold all the other vehicles there was no reason for keeping a vehicle I could not afford to maintain or insure. This is one of the main reason during the summer we will take the RV and camp in Emmett, ID and allow us to do 3 days of shopping for clothes, supplies and food. I can complete load the bed of the truck and quite a bit of the floor of the RV in 3 days. Camping out in Emmett, ID The other half is safety. We see way to many people up here serious injured or kill in vehicle accidents in smaller cars. So are animal vs. vehicle and some are vehicle vs. vehicle. I would rather have a bit more roll cage around me when traveling down a highway at 65 MPH or more (Yes. I do step up the speed on fire calls). I've a got a friend with a old Datsun truck just here last night that thing is stupid small for me my head hits the roof and the seat doesn't go back far enough. But looking at the pop can truck one deer and your dead man. I've just see a Ford Explorer that was total in a 25-30 MPH head on... no good. I'm not superman either. What put me back as single status and never married is... The fact all my previous girl friends make the same mistake and open mouth. "Hey... Your pretty smart." The next thing that comes out is "I want to buy a new house and you going to help me pay it off!" I had one girl friend tell MoparMom sell your house and move in with her while I pay her $937 month house payments. WHAT!?!? We own our house free and clear. The other girlfriend same thing "Wow! Your smart!" Hey you want to pay off all my debts and loans. Here move to Boise, ID and get a fancy job working computers and pay my loans off. Like I said a wife that will work with me! I'm not going to work solely for the woman I'm not a slave.

All I can say is be careful. Remember the turbo is still capable of 250-300*F discharge temps even at -20*F. At least with a covered grill the fan can still sense the heat and lock if need be. With the hole in the center that guarantees the fan remains unlocked because the fan hub always senses cold air and never locks. With a grill cover the ambient temp will rise too the point of trip the fan to partial lock to cool. I can see this with IAT temps and coolant temps. My issues is mostly because of all the canyon grade and climbing I've got to do so with the turbo working harder than flat land then the boost actually is the heat generator not the coolant.

Well When you back the truck to the wood pile and the park the wood splitter beside the truck so you split and throw in the truck bed. Occasionally you'll lose your grip mid-throw and BAM! Not quite in the truck bed and hit the bed side. Already done on both trucks. Personal note. I've dated many woman the biggest problem I've got is none of them can work with me. They all can cook good meals and take care of the house but need a woman that can work with me through thick and thin not run to the house and hide because its too muddy, cold, my nails broken, there is cow crap, etc. Even MoparMom is willing to go out in the cold and work in the woods hauling firewood. Now you understand why I'm the MPG guru of Dodge Cummins trucks. I have to being that everywhere I travel I have to travel at least 100 miles or more. Just to get a feel for it how about going to my northern fire meeting in Slate Creek is 36 miles one way. McCall, ID is 35 miles. Ontario, OR is 125 miles, etc. It adds up fast so if I can gain 1-2 MPG by doing a mod I'm all for it. Being that all local stores charge a arm and a leg for everything. Then if I do most of my shopping in Ontario, OR there is no sale taxes so what I saved in taxes just paid for the fuel. Then my saving in food and supplies are now truly ahead for the trip down.

Thanks Russ much appreciated. Darn... Problem is yours is a aluminum skinned and mine is fiberglassed. Neat gutters but I wonder if it will enter now at the joints that have been open up? I'm not sure what this white or cream color stuff is but its turned solid and now cracking. Worthless in my book if a sealant can't flex or stay flexible for a house body that is flexing all the time as it travels down the road. Hence why rubber roofs idea came to be.

I agree with you if the road conditions are good there is no reason why you can keep up with travel or being slightly slower maybe 5 MPH isn't going to hurt. But people driving excessive in poor road conditions is insane. As you seen from above its one of Idaho big problems. Another accident that occurred local deputy wife just had a head on collision with another local on a single lane dirt road. Excessive speed for road conditions.The neighbors kid just wrecked his car 2 days ago read ended another vehicle. Excessive speed / tailgating? As for tracking back to the original post and not forgetting the OP here...Rancherman how is the family doing are they home yet?

True... But when the road become icy and slick its best to slow down... That the problem every stuck on must go faster than thinking safer.Idaho state has no minimum law. Here is the local speed limits around me.Residential Speed limit - 15 MPHRural City Speed limit - 25 MPH Rural Roads - 25-35 MPH (Dust and visibility) Forestry Roads 15-25 MPH (Dust and visibility) Larger Cities - 25-35 MPH (Boise / Lewiston)US 95 Highway 45-65 MPHInterstates - 75 MPH (65 MPH Trucks state wide)Right from Idaho ITD...

Both are very true and right...

I've just reused them myself but re-grease them on assembly. You understand it better once you have it apart.

Thanks... I learned this when I swapping my old fiberglass topper from my 1972 Dodge Power Wagon to the 2002 and it didn't fit right. The back of the canopy hung outwards off the bed rails by another 1-2 inches. Then the clamps inside barely even grabbed the topper. Kind of see it in this picture look at the tail. PS: Wow! What a time long ago when my truck was nearly stock.

I can see where Wild and Free is with heavy machinery and what the extreme cold does. But a bit different when most people are plugging in there trucks or keeping them inside a unheated shop which is better than parked out in the cold. Like my rigs are both in garages so they don't start with minus temp but with above +32*F usually. But yes there is times I run for a fire call leave my truck standing out at a shed for hours getting cold or go up to McCall shopping for a few hours and allow it go cold. Either case I still just start up and high idle for a short period to build some heat and then roll on.

It always amazes me when I talk to people on the phone I hear the same thing over and over. "If I don't do the speed limit they will run me over". In all the time I've been working with Salmon River Rural Fire Dept. I've never been to a vehicle accident where some was driving too slow. But been to plenty of vehicle accidents where they were driving either excessive to the speed limit or excessive for the conditions of the road. Like this morning its 14*F above I'm sure there is black ice out there but as I sit here and look at the window I watching vehicle whizz by at good clip of speed. Another thing I typically end up doing since I'm a senior officer of the fire dept is typically doing the paper work on the accident scene. 99.9% are excessive speed accidents. Like I've shown a few times before.... For me to drive to New Meadows, ID is 20 miles.55 MPH = 0.36 Hours = 21.8 Minutes65 MPH = 0.30 Hours = 18.4 Minutes21.8 - 18.4 = 3.4 Minutes difference...I'd rather be a extra 5-10 minutes get to home than in a accident trying to hurry.

There is 2 screw on top. You have to pull the dash bezel first to see the 2 screws.

Since I used a proper adapter for the stereo it left me a pigtail for the lighting for my gauges so I tapped that wire and took it back across the dash for the lighting. Problem solved.

Like on the little 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 with a 46RE I've serviced the trans every 30k miles or every 3rd year. (Mostly every 3rd year). Magnet is clean every time I drop the pan, the fluid is bright red, no debris in the pan either. No need for a flush because the truck was never abused. I do tow with it but I don't get crazy about it. Yeah I know the book says it will haul 8k pounds but even then I tend to lock out over drive and slow down while climbing grade to keep from over heating the trans. Yeah yeah I know I need to install a trans temp gauge on this beast.

Thankfully enough we don't keep the minus weather for very long and usually escape it after a few weeks. But Wild & Free is right if you are truely expecting long term you might consider it. Mine is short term and typically will warm up in a few weeks. Not to mention the day time high typically positive numbers single digits. Still need to watch API grade spec though. To many grab the gasoline oils.

High idle modes are totally automatic and will self start without the fooler in place. All the fooler does is allow you to self start either mode anytime you wish above set point.

I think he thinking of the CP3 pump which is mounted way different from the P7100 and VP44. (Guessin')