Mopar1973Man

Sorry I got crossed up with being interrupted and came back thinking about another thread...

Make things easy for you for the wheel joints. Just remove the shaft from both sides. Now take your hot knife and cut the trunion arms off. Let all that fall out including all the needle bearings. Now lightly heat the yoke ears up and punch the caps inward with a steel shaft and hammer. They will be super easy to bang out without damaging the yoke ears.

I've got @Honey Badger 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee here and we started doing some serious repairs to her Jeep. What started out as cleaning the interior up and the carpet was well pretty nasty. I suggested to Mark to pull up all the seats and trim and remove the carpet so we could power wash the carpet. That option uncovered another major issue. The passenger side floor is rotten. While the Jeep in the state Honey Badger wants to make this her own kind of vehicle. So like in the picture above we are going to paint all the tan interior parts in a color-changing paint of blue/purple. We did a dry run last night of painting the driver-side kick panel. I had to do a bit of plastic welding on the corner of the panel then she cleaned, lightly sanded, primed, and then shot the color. Photos don't give this much justice but it looks awesome. So all the tan interior is going to be this new color changing blue/purple, then if you look at the exterior the factory fender flares will be painted the same color as well. Now we found a spray on paint that can be peeled off later. Has a bit of purple and metal flake but it would be a good rock chip protection. More to come on this project as it slowly comes to life. I've got mechanical stuff to fix like finding all the parts for the cooling system that her ex-boyfriend pulled off like the mechanical fan, fan clutch, electric fan, etc.

This is a known issue of the 2006 Dodge Ram cluster where the tachometer will be wild, erratic, or possibly dead or stuck. The fix is extremely simple. DISCLAIMER: If you do not have soldering experience please do not attempt this repair you might cause more damage to the cluster, electronics, or the truck. On Thor, since I purchased the truck the tachometer would sometimes work fine and on other days it would show wildly high RPMs like 4,000 while cruising 65 MPH in 6th gear. This is due to the fact when they manufacture the clusters they use lead-free solder and which tends to break down and then connections get weak. I just happen to buy a brand-new soldering iron. Now you need to remove the cluster from the dash which is not hard at all. Two screws on the bottom of the knee bolster and pull carefully at the top. This can be removed. Then the bezel for the stereo can be removed just lightly tug on the bezel it should unsnap from the dash base. Then there is 2 screw on the bottom of the cluster bezel then lightly tug and the entire cluster bezel will come out. Now the cluster has 4 screws to remove two on the top and two on the bottom. This is a bit tricky the cluster should have 3 wiring connectors that are not easy to see but the release for the locks is on top of each plug. Carefully pull each connector. Now you can remove the cluster. Now I brought the cluster inside the house and proceeded to remove all the screws on the back of the black plastic cover so as to expose the circuit board below. Now I know currently I don't have photos of this but I will. As you look at the back of the circuit board there are 3 IC chips with about 16 or 18 legs. These are the ones I reflowed the solder on. With the new tip, I heated and tinned the tip and wiped the solder off. Now with the very tip of the soldering iron, I place it on each leg carefully and heated and flowed the solder again. Now after you finish one chip grab your phone and put it into camera mode on my Android I set it for 3x magnification so I can really look closely. Now you need to verify that there are no soldering bridges between the legs of each and every chip if there are fix any solder bridges before you put the cluster into service it will cause damage and possibly require replacement. Now continue on to the next chip and verify after reflowing the solder. After the reflow, you can remove the cluster lens plastic and clean the plastic but be careful not to mess with the needles of the gauges and be careful assembling again for the trip button so that you don't break the trip button. Now you can redo all the screws for the back cover. Now the few forum post I read about this some say shim the right side of the board or different chips need to be reflowed, etc. At any rate, if the tach isn't working right it is a solder joint malfunction. Once the cluster is all assembled again you can take it out to the truck and test the cluster. Plug it in and fire up the truck and see if the tachometer is reading correctly. Before my tachometer would show 0 RPM at idle and 4,000 RPMs at 65 MPH in 6th gear. Now it shows correct at 800 RPM at idle and 2,100 RPM at 65 MPH.

That would be stellar. Let me know what I owe you?

So you all seen my post about being pulled over twice for a failed driver-side tail light? I pulled the entire pigtail out and the bulbs and found a single wire that folded over and broke the wire but the jacket was undamaged. As I gave a small tug on the wire it separated completely. Sadly the wire itself was oxidized pretty badly. The break was within about 1/2 to 5/8 from the plug. I attempted to solder it back together and shrink tube the repair but the wire just refused to accept solder from being oxidized so badly. I opted to use a standard butt splice and seal the ends the best I could and then taped the repair over. Then finally I was cleaning out the cab and found the door cam spring in my driver-side door pocket. I went to work to pry that spring back into position in the door. Sadly this is just a band-aid repair for now but I'm going to need to replace both door hinges soon being the pin bushing is shot for the most part. Being the weather here was warm today I started doing my hinge lubing practice. I grabbed my small oil can and filled it with some 30-weight engine oil and hit all the door hinges, and door latches then moved to the hood and did the pivots on the hinges and the hood latch. Now everything shuts nice and smooth once again and doesn't require much to get a full latch on the doors. While I had the hood open I shot the battery terminals with engine oil as well. On my trip back from Boise I had a popping noise start as @Honey Badger and I left. I shoved the truck into the shop and got Mark to help out and hunt down the popping noise which we thought was the steering box. I quickly pulled the steering box and open it up and didn't find any problems. Quickly reassembled and started rocking the wheel without the engine and popping started again. Come to find out the track bar on the ball stud was moving again. When I tighten it last I tighten as far as I could and ended up passing the hole for the cotter pin so a barely backed it off to hit the hole but that was the wrong move. I ended up laying a washer down to offset the pinhole on the castle nut. Torqued the heck out of that nut with a 1/2 breaker bar and was really close and struggled to just get a bit more out to line up. Nevertheless, I nailed it. The popping noise was fixed. Yeah, I didn't do much for the website for the weekend. But I did get repairs done on Beast to keep it going legally on the highways and fix issues before they become big issues.

Be careful with trying to follow OEM. Like I'm finding out most OEM products are not updated or improved. Where most name brand have improved over OEM (Mopar and/or Cummins). Let's not forget like Cummins thermostats are not produced by Cummins, but Holley/Mr Gasket. Another like Cummins head gasket are produced in China by BLK. So for the steering dampener would do like KYB or similar.

@Great work! by chance did you use the stock MAP sensor again? Hopefully, you break that limitation by finding a new MAP sensor that can see boost pressure up to say 100 PSI so then you can extend the fueling maps as far as you wish. The stock MAP sensor is limited to about 30 PSI of accuracy. I know it shows higher but the accuracy isn't there. Like my Quadzilla logs, I've hit 53 PSI and have it show 69 PSI on the logs.

Also, need a set of adjustable control arms too. The lift kit will pull the axle to the driver's side throwing off the thrust alignment. I currently have this issue on Thor where I'm pulling the 2-inch leveling kit out and returning to the stock rake. My problem is with the weight on the rear it looks to be squatting by about 2 inches. (Scaled weight 9,300 pounds). This is an all-steel flatbed and heavy tool boxes. If I was going to keep the lift I would have to do the adjustable track bar, adjustable control arms, and then a set of airbags in the rear to get the rake back.

The only other thing I could think of that could be the issue is while hot doing a compression test. I've seen one member here @jlwelding that had a similar problem and found out later it was a cracked piston. It passed on the blow-by test but would have failed the compression test.

Personally should have done a Timbo's APPS it's all mechanical and has no electronics like most OE-styled APPS.

Yup. All OE setting on alignment. Track bar just have second person rock the wheel. Watch for movement at both ends. Yes steering damper should have resistance both ways.

I'm starting to wonder if the VP44 might have issues with PSG when it get warmed up? I also got to ask which did you tightened first the unjector hold down or connector tubes? Correct is the connector tubes first then the injectors.

Just food for thought why is it that Beast is at 463k miles and never had death wobble? I've still got Y style yet too. Cheap ACDelco ball joints with over 250k miles. Napa track bar and tie rod ends. Current shocks are KYB and Napa steering dampener.

The one I seen was hoping vertical more so that toe wise like the video.

What did you have the injectors popped to what pressure? 310 bar is stock. A lot of injector builder will pop them as low as 300 or 305 bar which will give short life being by about 280 bar you can have misfire issues and/or idle issues. I've also seen injectors after a short time have much lower pop pressures due to settling of parts. Like my 7 x0.010 injectors (150 HP) are popped to 320 bar.

Being I witnessed a death wobble while riding my Goldwing I can say that imagine the axle hoping up and down left to right sides. The truck still travels straight but the axle is bouncing up and down.

Tail light pigtail has a broken wire just near the plug the bulb is good just the wire rubbed on the housing frame and broke the wire in half.

Thank you. Boy, it wasn't the night to have a blown bulb. St. Patrick's day and police looking for drunk drivers. It can be fixed right now.

Well, yesterday I set out to go get parts for a transmission job I was hired to do for a 2016 Ram 6.7L Cummins. I needed a pan gasket and filter set but no one up here sells them. Friday morning we also find out my father-in-law father passed away at the age of 98. Then on top of this @Honey Badger has to go get her new glasses in Boise as well. We set out Friday morning at about 10am and ran down to Boise I stopped and got the pan gasket and filter set for my Ram project. Then we headed over to get Honey Badger's glasses. We finished up and meet up with Honey Badger's Dad and had dinner with him. After that headed over to WinCo to grab some things for the house. Left and started the trip home. I get to Cambridge ID radar tripped off. I backed down to just about 2 under the speed limit. Proceeded through town and BAM! The Red and Blues come on. Oh, F__k now what. The nice officer informed me that my driver-side tail light is out. Ran my license and info all was good and he let me go with a warning of the tail light. This was Washington county. Now we pause for a bit and took a breath and proceeded home. Now I get to Council ID and am just about to pass the Police station another officer was heading south and noticed my tail light again. Oh F__K not again and instead of waiting to be pulled over I just pulled over in a Church parking lot. Now things get kind of wild on this stop. The same story as the officer who pulled me over about the tail light being out. I informed him I have just pulled over 20 miles again in Cambridge for the same thing. We started talking and he asked if there were any firearms or weapons I said, "Yes I'm packing my 9mm under my vest", then Honey Badger chimes in and said she got a 9mm in her purse. The officer said I support 2A and just don't reach for them and we are just fine. Well, I continue to tell him the reason why there is no police present down at my place at the north end of Adams, County. I informed him of the gunfire just 3 days ago at 1:30 am. Then just about 3 weeks ago I had a mattress stolen out of my garage. Then about a year ago we had a drunk passing through the yards which I called no one came to the house. Then just down the road friend's place was attempting a break-in while he was at home just last week. I told him also we have truckers speeding past the house and just because you guys won't come out. Now the deputy responds to the fact they have no communication and don't like being down there. I told him I'm willing to let them use my cell extender to make phone calls or have WiFi communication. Now After about 20 minutes of friendly chat, I will now have police present near home. I also asked him to forward on to the others in the county to not pull me over again. We already know the tail light issue. The deputy was nice enough to radio ahead because sure enough we get to New Meadows at the wye and the radar goes off again. Honey Badger spots him hiding in the shadows of the Chevron Station. I kept trucking home. So I'm home safe and sound... I've got a spare LED bulb here easy fix. Now the other problem I got on my trip is a popping noise in the steering up the front left side. I've got to look at Beast and figure that out. Another thread to start...

Still I would verify that the shocks didn't lose their gas charge. All it takes is a bad shaft seal and the gas charge could leak out.Then I would have all tires rebalanced to true zero. Being you need something rotating at speed that is out of balance.

W-T ground wire mod you got to verify you have good ground and good 12V getting to the ECM.

Shocks and tire balance are the first two I would chase.

It might be attempting to use the VP44 for the tach signal. Both the VP44 have a tone wheel and then the tone wheel on the crank. The cam sensor is only a TDC marker that's all. In the 2000 to 2002 Dodge trucks only have a cam sensor. Which is just a relocated crank sensor. 98.5 and 99 Dodge's crank tone wheel.

Not necessary, you would have to visually look into the crank sensor hole and see if it is present. A bad crank sensor will not produce a crank signal either so it's a possibility. Then if the wiring between the crank sensor and the ECM is damaged it could prevent the signal to get to the ECM. This is not a voltage but a type of sinewave that the ECM counts the pulses and can calculate the RPM by count and time. Most likely the sensor is bad if there is a code for the pressure sensor. There is a voltage issue there is out of range so the oil pressure sensor code.