Mopar1973Man

Update with the map and my pen is pointing to home.

Be careful on removing paint. I'm now starting to see people get into new issues of clean the paint off to bare metal and now have a rusting ground point which is worse. Typically I clean the ring terminal with a scotch brite pad and then just tighten down the fastener again to keep from exposing metal and creating a rust point.

Timbo's APPS is the only fully mechanical APPS sensor with NO ELECTRONICS! All mechanical switch and rheostat. No logic electronics for controlling the IVS switches. So yes Timbos is a huge improvement over a a stock APPS or a Wells APPS. Might still be a bad alternator diode or brush pack. I would look into doing the gorund wire mod for the system that @W-T posted in the articles. If that's confusing then my version of W-T article is on the second page (simplified).

On my truck, I shove a full-size 5-gallon bucket under the drain cock and open its stops just short of the top of the bucket and slide it out. Then I remove the thermostat and get the garden hose and flush that block out really good. After the block is flushed out good I drain it again. Close the drain. Now the first gallon of coolant goes in straight. Being there is already water in the system. The remaining coolant is mixed 50/50. Continue to fill the system till the coolant is just about to spill out of the thermostat hole. Now install the NEW thermostat and upper hole and top off. No need to burp the system already do if you do it this way. I've been using strictly NAPA 375-190 thermostats for the life of the truck and still not had one fail! No need for fancy high priced Cummins thermostats... https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/MRD375190

Update on Rattlesnake fire. Seem while I was down taking care of MoparMom's dialysis USFS came through yesterday and set up sprinklers and prepped my yard for fire protection. As for sleep... Monday from 12 noon to 1am then got to bed. Tuesday from 6am to 2am. Wednesday I took off MoparMom wasn't feeling good. By 5pm her potassium level jumped and end up head for the hospital. Got home again at 2am. I'm exhaust. Slept barely 4 hours. Thursday get rolling barely even human state at this point make it down to Ontario. MoparMom is getting here treatment enhanced to handle the problem. During her treatment I managed to sleep for 2.5 hours with the Cummins idling away with A/C going being it was only 103*F in Ontario, OR. Leave Ontario, OR and to find out US95 was shut down due to a wildland fire in Midvale, ID. Go turned around and headed back to Idaho 55. Get over there to be held up for an accident over there. We made it home again at 1am in the morning. I got some sleep but I'm still a shell of a man at the time of typing this. I've called my fire chief and left a message saying I've got to step down till I can catch up.

I can see for track or dyno purposes of putting on a velocity stack. Then when you are done with the fun I would toss the BHAF back on again.

@99dodge_pos you find out we've got our own family of guys here. Typically they throw in the comic relief to the thread keeping the tension down. Seriously though these guys typically have there head screwed on tight and have a wealth of knowledge to share.Just relax and enjoy the comments and they will get you past you hurdles.

I'm down here so MoparMom gets dialysis. Then back home to the smoke-filled valley. Fricken crazy the amount of fires burning. There is another fire down in Midvale ID that is burning across grassland down here. Smoke is not so bad down here in Ontario, OR but heading north its crazy thick in places.

Now see if you can repeat it again. Then you know you got the tune figured out. It could be a fluke too. Time to find out.

Yeah, they have to replaced as pairs.

Just break that tranny. (posted picture above) Then she gotta fix it.

Got that some what...

ESE 3 MPH currently. 92*F and 21% RH.

Yeah, I think you're on the right track with the TIPM. I know the 3rd Gen trucks have the same design and issues using TIPM.

You might try getting ahold of @Chris O. he might know since @Me78569 is gone for time being.

Typically its a speed sensor issue. If the rear sensor is having trouble then the speedometer will act goofy or jump to speed. If it's a front sensor you may feel brake pull or odd braking. Either way, I would change up the speed sensors and get them replaced. Once an ABS light is tripped you need to cycle the key OFF and back on for the ABS module to re-test the system. Like in my case I replaced 3 set of sensors in the front and one in the rear. It turned out I had a bad tone ring on the unit bearing in the front.

So far so good. I've been cruising the ATV and running back and forth to keep a pair of eyes on the movement. Sprinklers are going behind the houses. Dam is still running strong feeding 3 homes and no issues. My neighbor lost his dam something failed and the water stop flowing. Unknown as of yet. It looks like USFS is going to keep the fire up on the ridge behind us. Now if the Good Lord allows us to keep water and nothing burns my waterline laying in the ditch behind the house.

Update... It is active burning behind the house right now.

Under the axle. The suspension has to remain like it sits on the ground.

Yeah, it's the "Rattlesnake Fire"... https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5999/ http://www.idahofireinfo.com/2018/07/rattlesnake-creek-fire-actively-burning.html

Be careful. P1698 is a different code from P1689...

Pinehurst is about 3/4 of a mile. The fire is west side across from Pinehurst Resort. Mopar1973Man is a bit off I'm the dot just north.

The only thing we've managed to do is protect homes. The fire as I know right now is still running unchecked on the west side.

There is only a handful of certified rebuilders out there that have the test stand for programming PSG on the VP44. Just because its a dealer you have no idea who supplied them. I know for sure Diesel Auto Power supplies both Midwest Injection and Industrial Injection both are certified rebuilders. Then Vulcan Performance is Industrial Injection as well. Now you know that your buying for a pump and has been properly rebuilt, pump bench tested for 3 hours and PSG flashed with the calibration. There are rebuilders out there that sell rebuilt VP44 with USED PSG units and never been bench tested. Typically they are cheaper in price. Not a good thing!