Mopar1973Man

Any body bolt will work as long as it stays tight. Like my Quadzilla is grounded to the hood hinge bolt. The bolt back out and created all kinds of hell. Tighten the bolt and everything works again. No. You don't need to ground directly to the battery. Like my truck I've got a mere 0.003V (3 mV DC) Drop from Battery NEG post to the body or block anywhere. This is while the truck is running with all loads going.

@Dieselfuturesorry dude your going to have ot rebuild your garage page again. I started the garage database over... What I was playing with today... Blue Top Steering and Steering box brace...

Just for information... Quadzilla Adrenaline +150 HP DAP injectors (7 x 0.010) popped at 320 bar HX35/40 Hybrid Turbo (60/60/12) I've just been playing with my tune and spread out my timing a bit more. I know I'm most likely high in drive pressure but, power wise 2WD on dry pavement just about the time the wire tap and my CANBus climb together to the end of the fuel map the tires break loose and the smoke I'm emitting isn't exhaust smoke but tire smoke. I'd love to step up to a 62/68/12 as a upgrade where I'm at. I've already talked to Jacob Kidd and they have a series of turbo that is ready for my exhaust brake. Small requirement I want to keep my exhaust brake being my brake pad life is now past 200k miles.

Welcome to the crazy family of Dodge Cummins owners. Well you finally into the light so we all can work together! Thank you for the kind words it keeps me focus on build this up even more. Lately between weather (snow) and jobs I'm jumping back and forth working both sides web and shop.

I've got a client up in McCall nice looking 2005 Dodge Ram but steering is pretty poor. I've done the first step of pulling the steering box and sending it off to @Blue-Top Steering and had him rebuild it completely. Then I asked the owner to pick out a brace for the steering box. This truck came to me with some serious steering slop. The steering box was leaking both the input and output shaft seals. Here we go, look for that Blue Top box peaking out... Take notice there is a gap to the pitman arm and the body. Look closer you see I had to heat it up and wedge it off the old box. Some nit wit ran the nut in with a impact and crushed the arm to the body making it impossible to use a pitman arm puller. I've got a good amount of torque on it now and still nice pull gap to be had. I was planning on some test driving and re-centering the steering wheel but the snow is coming down hard so I'm going to delay till the weather improves. I typically run down the road to Pinehurst frontage road and I can point it straight and turn the drag link longer or shorter to center the wheel. I'm not going to lay in snow and blowing wind today... Owner can come to get it for another week. A bit of slack for me I've got another due to be done today.

125 HP industrial Injectors aren't bad. I'm running +150 HP DAP Injectors (7 x 0.010) popped at 320 bar. With a Quadzilla you can control the fuel better and make better use of the power. Without causing head damage as your case the cracks in the head..

That's why I cleaned up the Garage area and made it to be a photo gallery for your truck stuff. Limited out the photos there so you can stuff way more truck photos... As for working on my truck again didn't happen... Uuuugggghhhh! Ended up working on customers truck because of deadlines. Still need to get the repairs done for my own trucks. One day soon I' would like to have the time to stuff a clutch in the 2006 Dodge Ram and make it roll and drive. Still haven't got the volt gauge issue figure out yet either.

Even after 350k miles when I pulled my head to do valve guides and the head gasket my head was crack free. The only thing I can think of someone has been running without a EGT gauge. Yes a stock power truck can exceed 1,400°F easy. I've seen it done many times. Just because its stock power doesn't mean it not going to run hot.

Ouch... Looks like it's been running a bit hot!

Yeah I'll keep you all posted. I'm getting ready to go out the door and get greasy for the day on my own truck and service it out and look for this weird issues.

I didn't pay attention to size I just grabbed a couple of o-rings (green) from my A/C extra bag and stuff them in there problem solved.

Eric at Vulcan Performance built that for me. Now what it is basically a piece of scrap angle iron. Now find double female 1/8" NPT bushing. measure the OD of the coupler and drill just a bit smaller so you can press coupler in place. Eric tack welded it in place. All I did was hook to the bottom with 1/8" air brake line on 1/8" NPT push to Connector fittings (PTC). The screwed the sensor on top. Better view of it.

Yesterday I had a client call me and told me he was coming. Ok he drops his rig off here and I had to run back to town any ways so I dropped him back off and chased the two Fords in Riggins. Get down with my jobs and head into town to just double check before I head home and the CEL comes on. I got two codes off the odometer but my OBDII tool showed nothing, no readable errors even though the CEL is ON. P12xx code and P13xx code. Never bother to write them down. After just hooking up and hitting erase they are gone and never came back. I figured if they are true code they would return. Nope gone and never came back all day. Even my trip to McCall no issues. The problem I'm worried about is my volt gauge randomly with chime the CHECK GAGE light and then watch the volt gauge drop to ZERO. Now looking at my USB plug voltage it shows 14.3 Volts. Then I stopped in Crump Chevron and check again too same result the batteries both have 14.3 volts too. Why is the volt gauge dropping out? From what I know the volt gauge comes from the PCM. I'm going to double check wiring and plugs for salt water entry. My entire truck is covered in salt right now. Been too cold to think of washing it. I need to do axle fluids and change transfer case fluids too.

Get digging... I've gotta shovel snow off mine and roll in first thing this morning.

Well geez I've got Panther Piss in my shop. I might have to switch to Squirrel Piss next. (Soybean Oil) YESTERDAY'S SCREWED UP WORK DAY --- Yesterday sucked. I had my last customer in the yard and then this morning I've got 2001 Dodge with vacuum problem for the CAD axle. So glad I don't own a CAD axle in my Cummins. Then I'm gotta do research on a 2019 Ford why the temp control does work. Then the second Ford 2004 has a (P0355) bad ignition coil on cylinder E. Ford can no longer count the cylinder so that is cylinder 5. Cray I know... Before all this I gotta work on my truck from thing. I've go a few weird things to deal with. My Volt gauge will chime the CHECK GAGES and drop the volt gauge to 8. The alternator is still . charging at 14.3. So now I got to figure out what data is being missed. The other weird one while I was out I got a check engine light with two other codes for the ECM. Reset and cleared and stayed good. (Another thread for the 24V gen area) Sum of Witch I thought I could get the ATF yesterday morning. Nope. One customer forgot hes suppose to come this morning. Then he had to bill collect on his customers before coming. By the the time I took care of two customers getting them set up and get to McCall to get ATF for my last job it was already 4pm by the time I got home and snowing again. LAST NIGHTS FUN --- Now the fun side... I've been hooking up with most of the neighborhood (Sean's Family, Andrew' Family, Then there is Mark and George the odd ducks). Last night a friend of mine Andrew had a dinner party for all of us. At least 4 or 5 households were there. Stuff Pork Chops (smoked), potatoes, salad, green bean casserole, etc. I bought the soda for drinks three 12 packs. We all gather to share our time and yak and talk to everyone. Eileen found she got some gardening partners now and one loves to to do canning. Myself I was being the pest to the dogs like always and stirring them up. You know how guys are talking shop and HP. Yup, Sean (Booger) Davis he's wanting me to build up his Dad's 94 Cummins into a towing monster. Sean is also building a Chevy S10 with a V8 350 and turbo 400 trans. He's threatening to whip my Cummins. (Bring it on I'll play!) Andrew want me to do a exhaust brake for his Duramax. It was a good evening. Before dinner last night Eileen spun around ,"Hey babe I forgot the bread" Ask Sean if he wanted to come along so he could to drive my truck. After going the 2 miles to my place and back he's not to quick to run his mouth about whipping my truck now. In about a 2 to 3 second burst he was crossing 85 MPH really quick from 55 MPH. TODAY --- So today I'm going to work on my truck. Everyone just going to have to hold on there for a day.

429k miles still going on the ECM but PCM burned up when my alternator shorted out the blue field wire. I had to replace it for 750 for Auto Computer Specialist.

Basic electrical theory.

Yes it is... I can say there is 50+ different versions of ECM software with different version software for options. (Manual vs Auto), (Federal, California, and Canada emissions), etc.

Last time I order a set of kits for seals and dust boots it was like $20 an axle to rebuild the calipers from RockAuto way cheaper than buying reman'ed caliper.

Not at all. Most of my job take me in to the back country away from access to power. I've never been REQUIRED to plug in to get started even with temps as low as -30°F and all I got to set the 3 cylinder high idle mode, now the grid heaters stay on the longest time giving the most heat to the manifold, now start the truck and leave idle. in about 1 to 2 minutes ECM will ramp up to 1200 and drop to 3 cylinder mode. If you want super fast warm up turn the exhaust brake it will drive the EGT's way up to about 800°F and the truck warm up like is driven on the highway. Usually completed in under 10 minutes. You can watch the ice melt off the windows in minutes. Rare I get the luck a vehicle happens to break down in a heated shop. (Yeah right!) Then they don't schedule there vehicle failure so I can plug in and set a timer. (Never happen). Since my life is very randon there is no way to make use of a block heater. But high idle is just as good.

I could do it in seconds... Just unscrew one and try the other.

@Jthor @Breck @Wet Vette Get you attention please.

16* in the 1500 band is a bit tall even my truck can launch good with heavy throttle. More retard in the 1500 the quicker you spool the turbo. Remember scaling also cuts down the amount of retard. So if you total timing scaling is 5° and your set for 40% then your total retard is 2°. But only over 40% of the throttle range and give back to the normal timing.

@IBMobile is absolutely correct. When the pistons are out and the piston seal are removed the piston should just naturally drop to the bottom on the bore without being pushed. This means there is caked up brake fluid on the pistons. I've use light grade wet dry sandpaper and take off the thousandths of harden brake fluid and check again. Some just opt for replacing the caliper I would for time issues and being fast but it is cheaper to rebuild yourself but if there is rust damage its time to replace them. Here is the drop fit without the seal. You shouldn't have to push it down either. @dripley more than likely why the tapered brake pad was one piston is sticking nad the other was pushing still so the pad would rock over on the weak side while it wore the taper in the brake pad. This goes back to the drop test to verify the piston and bore clearance.

Ouch... Hard swing in temperature. Like us dipped down to about 7 to 9°F and then snowed good. Now warmed up and half rain snow mixture back and forth. Making it rough for outdoor work. Especially the truck I've got to go lay on the ground. Heck 2 days ago I had blowing wind that would bite through your clothes. Nope not I said the fly was going out and lay under a truck to finish a steering box install. But today I'm going to put on my big boy pant and just get it done and taken care of. If it dripping water and/or rain it going to suck to get cold and wet super fast. UGH. Yesterday I had the server bottleneck on inodes. Basically how many files I can have on the hard drive which is about 9.6 Million. Something on the system started writing small files and plugged up the server. At the same time I'm trying to reset my password on Hulu. Can't get the email I'm calling Hulu to chew on them. Then find out I can get email. Drop Hulu and now call the hosting company. The fixed there problem at the same time Hulu fix my programming again. I'm working on the store part in my spare time again hit a snag turning to find away to get the email to populate with more than 1 item. So got some code work to figure out and slowing down the start up of the store.