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Mopar1973Man

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  1. Ok that sounds good... I better go hungry for about 2 days first...
  2. Any line could break from vibrations. Only point I would make here is there any reason to invest double the amount of money on lines? Are you planning on dyno queen or 1/4 mile track truck? Then I would consider the expensive lines. For most daily drivers I would opt for the least expensive lines.
  3. Must be nice... Across the pond here in Idaho USA it can reach over 110*F (43*C) then fall as deep as -40*F (-40*C). Which I've seen both extremes here in the last 30 years of living in Idaho. I will admit I would love to just visit over there to understand and sample the lifestyle once. Hope it works out better this time.
  4. Wish it was an option for you. HID lighting was a huge improvement for me. I'm serious that it such a difference. No Hotspot. It's just smooth equal light cast over a wider area and vertically I can see tops of trees at 1/4 mile and cast light vertical over 50 feet up. Putting my old 1996 Dodge 1500 LED headlights beside the 2002 Dodge 2500 with HIDs. Hands down the HID won for lighting quality. I've tried... Stock headlights with quality halogens. (Bad quality) Sport Headlights with quality halogens and relay mod. (Bad quality) Clear lens headlights with LEDs. (Ok but poor pattern) Morimoto D2S lens retrofitted in Dodge clear lens (the best quality). As for driving lights I've done aircraft landing lights. (Good) Store brand driving lights (ok) PIAA LEDs Driving lights (best)
  5. Hang in there I'm sure there is a few people around that have installed this kit. Me personally, I've never had a need for it since I kept the geometry of the front axle in check from the start. The only thing I can suggest is Monday morning contact DOR and see if they can send the PDF file of the install to you.
  6. Not a problem I figured the technology actually started from back east I thought. But I guess not. It was a shot in the dark...
  7. LOL... You better come to Idaho there is very little for stations like this for trucking companies or even electric vehicles. Like Swift truckers come through here and 90% of them are dumb drivers that don't know better. Just think this way between Lewiston ID and Boise is 300 miles. No bad right? Now depending on the route you take you can add more in grades to climb or not. Either way a electric vehicle will not make the 300 mile drive now without running out because of grades. As for charging stations so far lot of listed charging stations are a misprint out here. Like Motel in New Meadows has a Tesla Charging station but... You must be a paid guest of the motel to use it. Then listing the RV park in Riggins, ID is not a charging station. Again look around Idaho and there is actually less charging stations for electric vehicles. Especially out here in the New Meadows - Riggins area.
  8. Only reason we can't reach these goals is because our own Gov't is constantly thinking of themselves and what they can do make themselves richer and us poorer. Space flights to the space station oh WoW! NOT! It is not like you can live there, make a living and go grocery shopping. I'm humble enough to say planet earth is my home I don't plan on leaving this planet for something better. Heck I've not explored most of the United States yet let alone the world. Just think your up in space and need to run to WalMart... Not happening.
  9. Doesn't surprise me at all.
  10. Finally getting around to doing repairs on my own stuff rather than everyone's else vehicles. The previous owner of Thor just hacked up the tail light wiring and made a huge mess out of it. So I went out and order a weather-tight 7 terminal bus bar box. That way all the hitch connectors and the tail light wiring have a place to be without just be hanging under the bed as a knot of butt splices. The interesting part of the 3rd Gen bodies and electrical it is way over wired for the rear. Basically, there are two sets of wiring trailer/tow is one set with solid colors like green, yellow and brown. Then the body electrical is white stripped something. Dodge managed to do everything backward for color typically yellow is left, but Dodge used white/green. After test lighting and going through a ton load of wiring diagrams and retesting again. I found the brown for marker light on the trailer is not working from the TIPM. The green and yellow for turn signals and brakes work fine. I high jacked the body marker light lead (white/tan) for the trailer. I've got to get some plugs for typical push-in light like the round markers on my flatbed. I'll get a photo here in a bit this morning when I head back down to my shop.
  11. Only other thought would be switch over to UK / EU HID lights. That would have the shutter cut off for the proper side. Like my HIDs in my truck have a step in the light pattern so the on coming traffic is chopped off a bit lower not to blind them but on my side of the road slightly higher path of light to aid in visibility for the driver. That would be my only other way I could see fixing that problem. Being any replacement reflector housing will be for left hand driver vehicles. Since HIDs don't use the reflector at all the shutter and lens would have to be EU / UK design for proper cut off.
  12. Like the Good Lord said, " Man can create nothing nor destroy any thing." This meaning that when you look at carbon on the planet the same amount is here and won't change. Kind of like hydrogen when burned it binds with oxygen so now it turns to water. Hydrogen can be separated back out of water with electricity. Sae amount of hydrogen just different forms of it. Back to carbon like oil is nothing more than long chains of carbon and hydrogen which binds with oxygen giving carbon monooxide and carbon dioxide. Carbon never destroyed but changed forms. Trees and planets convert that back to oxygen as well. Adding on... So how is the green new deal going to work? How are they going to mine all the lithium for car batteries? Since diesel fuel is supposed to be no longer used what is going to power all those big dump trucks hauling that out? Then lithium batteries are very toxic and burn rather well again the smoke from the batteries are toxic too. I don't hear power companies expanding and making more power plants. Who is going to pay for the power used to charge cars up? I'm still in a logging area up here in Idaho. I'd love to see how the whole electric-powered over-the-road truck works out pulling logs out the backcountry in the dead of winter. I wonder what gives the driver heat on an electric vehicle because no matter what it will cost the battery quite a bit to produce heat or A/C. Some day just my own travels I can lay down over 400 to 500 miles in a day. I've not seen any electric vehicle that can travel that far in one charge loaded to GVWR. There is going to be a huge impact on freight just think a FedEx truck that is hauling your Christmas present is electric-powered Opps... Only can do 180 to 250 miles on a charge then it will take HOURS to recharge before traveling another 180 to 250 miles. The entire electric vehicle thing is a sham. Just consider I've got to travel 180 miles to get to Boise, ID any electric vehicle would have to be parked at a charging station just to get back home again. My Cummins I can fill up and do 2 trips back and forth from Boise on a single tank of fuel. Remember I'm running 20+ MPG now. If I could hold 28 MPG every trip that would be 980 miles of travel on 35 gallons of fuel. Just food for thought. Now make thing more interesting that the democrats are now looking at pulling the dams off the snake river for the salmon population. Now that means less electricity for Idaho and we would have to buy more power from neighboring power providers. How is helping anything?
  13. Kind of like Mopar oil filters are rebranded Fram filters for most Mopar gas cars. Then like rebranded BLK gaskets sold as Cummins OEM. Or better yet the rebranded Mr.Gasket / Holley Thermostat sold as Cummins OEM. Yeah I know, nothing is what you think it is...
  14. Typically I see about 17 to 18 PSI at idle. My spring is shimmed so on factory 17 PSI spring is a bit short at 14 PSI hence why the shim.
  15. I ordered 1/2 inch lines, with draw straw outside the fuel basket. On his truck I installed the straw at the rear of the tank. Then added a big line kit to keep the stock filter housing. Then the JIC fittings at the pump. Oh the best part there was only 1/8 tank of fuel and on heavy throttle no pressure drop. This time I got the straw touching the bottom and notched.
  16. How about this... This is my spreadsheet for layout of fuel and timing. It allows me to step through all the values evenly and build any ramp up I wish and can see all the numbers in real time on the spreadsheet. Ubuntu Linux I can use the Excel sheet that someone built but this works as well.
  17. Owner just came and collected his truck and was pleased with the custom install of the AirDog 150. Tucked up out of the way and shouldn't have any problems. This is one of the few reasons I don't like to use FASS pumps they are too big to hard to mount without the filter hanging below the frame. This is a absolute no-no if the filter hang below the frame at all. Good way to be struck with flying debris or swiped off the pump base out 4 wheel driving.
  18. Again I logged in as you and shrunk up my screen and checked. You can test again with a PC as well, just open a browser (Chrome preferred) then continue to shrink the width. The only thing I can think of is cache and cookies. I would dump both and try again. All your permissions should be good (Yearly Subscription). Being it produces correctly for me on your account it got to be on your end. Make sure you go to Browse -> Clubs too. Again logged in with your username and check desktop using Ubuntu Linux 20.04 with Chrome Browser. Now using my cellphone Samsung S21 also with Chrome browser.
  19. Logged in as you and all 4 JOIN button are very visible.
  20. Join the club and then posting becomes available. I'd suggest just heading over ot DAP for now till I can catch up with my own side here. Store features are shut off for now till I can get a handle on things on the site.
  21. I've got a forum member and local client here at the house with his Dodge Cummins having new +50 HP injectors, new AirDog 150 installed, and a big line kit. Now what I want to focus on here is my custom AirDog install and what it took to make it happen. On short bed trucks, the fuel tank is more forward toward the transfer case. There is not enough room for the AirDog to mount on the inside of the frame. Even on the outside of the frame is really limited using the supplied bracket and fittings. I chucked the whole idea out and started over, now thinking custom install. I had to call back to @dieselautopower and get the old school JIC fittings and have them as 90* elbows, not the straight quick connects. Now I took advantage of the outside of the frame but the rear of the rear cab mount. I'm using this as a guard from thrown debris. The frame is too wide to use the supplied sandwich bracket. So I used only the pump bracket and the plastic pedestal that is supplied. I drilled 4 holes and tapped the holes in the frame and bolted the pump to the frame of the truck. The 3 JIC elbows allow for the tight area and only one fuel line needed to be looped to prevent a kink. The rear cab mount is forward from the two fittings on the left. This guards the filters against being struck by debris. The rear fitting pointing up is the return to fuel tank heading to the filler neck and the one pointing down was my supply to the engine. For the supply to the engine, I added a small loop to prevent kinking. Here you see I completely did away with the sandwich bracket and just drilled and tapped into the frame. I couldn't use nuts because the fuel tank is completely in the way. The plastic pedestal worked out perfect too being allows for the brake cable not to rub the pump or filters.
  22. Your welcome. I'm trying to get the best speed possible for cell phone users. Being the lag on cellphones counts I've gotta be even faster. I'm already using next generation hardware and software. So I'll compare to Cummins Forum and I've got them beat hands down. There is another tidbit with speed the more I get the response time down the more it improves mt ranking for search engines like Google so Mopar1973Man pops up in the first page for most searches. Mopar1973Man.Com is fully loaded in 4.1 seconds where Cummins Forum is 7.9 seconds.
  23. I've been using this app for quite some time. So far I'm really impressed with its ability to keep you on track with maintenance and tracking MPG numbers. I figured I'd bring this up and let people know about the app. https://www.simplyauto.app/ Personal dream I had for the website here was to have the author of the Garage Software to add a maintenance record program to the garage so it would remind owners of up coming thing like oil change, brakes etc. That way as you logged on the site and you would add your mileage to the web site and it would notify of service needed. Also would possibly allow members with permission to view your records to provide better understanding of what the troubles could be.