Mopar1973Man

Still RockAuto at $125 got that beat...

Where are the trailer brakes and trailer brake controller?

Might be the next step for me I'm closing in on 200k miles on these Rancho's.

Sway bar bushings would be a good idea for my truck. I'm interested in what you do here. I've got a mild issue with axle wrap now. Daily driving isn't so bad, but lay the power to the truck and axle hops up and tires spin lose. Little secret I'll share. Take the seats out and then pull the carpet out. Now hang the carpet or lay it over a picnic table. Now using a power washer with a wide angle nozzle you can power clean that carpet fast. It will be like factory fresh when it dries in the sun. I've done this on the 1996 Dodge Ram once and it looked like a new truck on the inside for several years. Now its due for this again. So is the 2002 Dodge it needs to have the carpets washed badly. While the seats are out you can clean them much easier. The rest of the cab is super easy to clean at that point too. Check your floor metal for damage or rust and deal with it while the carpet is out of the truck. Just for fun compare. Being I've got the Quadzilla tuner and not carrying the camper like you do. My average transmission temp empty is like 100-120*F right now with 70*F temperature after driving 150 miles. My EGT's hover around the 550*F at 65 MPH on flat ground. I actually welcome some heat to the transmission being it really never gets hot enough to get off the 100*F mark now. Now towing that will change a bunch but right now 95% of my travel is going to be empty truck. I know the heat wrap in your case will be a bonus with the weight and wind resistance you have.

LIke myself I've got a 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 5.9L V8 Magnum. My problem is 91 Octane gasoline is costing $3.389 a gallon now and Diesel is $3.259 as of today. Then you figure the 96 is only getting maybe 15-16 MPG when I've been hitting 19-20 MPG in the diesel so still hands down the diesel is still winning the MPG race. Now if I can get the funds together next and drop fresh rubber on the 96 Dodge I'm planning on dropping from the 235/85 R16 to 245/75 R16 tires which will change the final ratio from 3.43 to 3.72. This should give a mild increase to MPG on the 96 and make it better for operating costs.

No joke...

Yes it will work with a Banks.

Ive got to be Thankful to several people and business for getting me this far. DAP, Quadzilla Power, Blue Top Steering Gear, South Bend Clutch, ISSPro Gauges, list goes on. Yeah I wish I had more money to play and more time to play with new toyz. Seriously I'm happy with my truck done well for 340k miles and still going. Can't complain.

Not typically. Basically the P0122 or P0123 is when the APPS sensor goes out of range either hi or lo voltage. When it does the ECM normally dead pedals for protection so not to either be in WOT or so low to possibly stall the engine. The P0121 code is when the voltage of the APPS and the IVS don't agree with each other this is more common when the owner has done voltage adjustment on worn sensors. So the rare part is to have a spot in the cruising realm that the rheostat starts to wear out and the voltage dips. Still in a normal range but just voltage changed. This can be seen on a live data tool where the throttle is held steady and the TPS signal is jumping up and down possibly. Then if you change the position slightly the value now is steady and normal again showing the weak spot you've just past.

Don't use a wrench or a ratchet. If you can use an impact gun. Better chances of shocking it loose with impact than pulling torque on an already rusted fastener. I agree lots of PB blaster for a couple of days soaking. Block Heater is good for holding the temp up for you around 100-110*F.

APPS sensor could be wore out. Typically there is a P0121, P0122 or P0123 codes present. Anytime the TPS signal drop to zero the code will be thrown not to mention the ECM should go dead pedal because the throttle value is out of range. Now the shutting down issue is another possible electronic problem I would start by testing the alternator for excessive AC noise. If the AC noise is too high it can muddy the tach signal and create all kinds of problems. I agree with @dripley we need the error codes on this truck grab an OBDII reader and plugin. List the code numbers for us.

That's about the only thing I like about the Smarty is the ability to turn on the 3 cylinder high idle software. I wish they had it selectable so you could turn it off if you wanted.

Go stock. There is no reason for a 3 piece. Rockauto has them for $125.00... DORMAN 674602

Some truth to that. PCM is the primary computer to set up the CCD Network but ECM is a secondary computer. Now the PCM has no control over the reported MAP value CANBus. Remember Quadzilla is hooked up on the CANBus lead and doesn't use the CCD network. At this point, the PCM could be missing and unhooked and the MAP value would remain the same. Now we are back to wiring issues, MAP sensor issue, ground issue, etc. even a possible ECM issue.

Here... Timbo's APPS exposed. Assembled with wiper arm.

Pockets aren't deep... I'm bored right now...

Don't snivel... I'm paying $3.089 for Diesel or $3.28 for 91 Octane Gas... Cheap for Me...

That's feasible... At least for 0 to 60 times you can do that legally. Hmmm... Don't give me bad ideas... Special members area. Oh! Slap me before I do something stupid...

I've already touch 21 MPG with the Quadzilla in the dead of winter here. I'm waiting to see this summer and summer fuel when I can get the higher numbers.

Don't feel bad I've got a Smarty touch here that I can use because I don't have a Windows Computer to run the UDC software. Basically just S-03 tuner. With my set up I can't use the darn thing because my truck isn't stock. So the S-03 tuner will be overly smokey and timing too high. Quadzilla way different deal. 3 times the power, full control of fuel (wiretap also) and timing. Can't go wrong. Now if your truck was a Common Rail I would be telling you to jump on the Smarty tuner. Way better tuner on Common Rail.

Stacking isn't a good idea... Basically turns the APPS sensor into a light switch.

Again you are looking at lots of eye candy. Hosting is going to be bit more than shared hosting this kind of graphical weight is going to require more server. But after doing a waterfall test on it they are slow. Graphically heavy not using HTTP 2.0 servers so timing is slower having to serve each item one at a time. Then the SEO on that site is poor. Still using old-school SEO practices and calling keywords, not using modern meta tags or microdata. There is a lot to websites. Other than the huge amount of eye candy and flashy screen there isn't really any SEO horsepower there. This is a reason I tend to favor the VPS servers more so because I can custom tune a server to meet the needs of the website. As for more shared hosting most of the server controls are unreachable so you have to take it at face value and work with it. Again the biggest factor is most all shared hosting is limited to 100 connections. If you have 2 humans on the site and 98 bots crawling the site then if I try to jump in the mix as 101 I gotta wait in line. There is lag as I wait for the last man to finish up then I get served. That's why in my last post I showed that graph where it was very slow to build index on Google that because of the 100 connection limit. When SR.com jumped ship and got on VPS server Google jump is scrapped the site hard and heavy. During this time I was tuning MySQL server to do it job the best I could with the limited resources. (1 core, 1 GB RAM and 40 GB of Hard Drive). Again this is something I can't promise on Shared Hosting. Most shared hosting keep you away from the high power stuff. Shame really. In 20 days SR.com server up 13 Million requests 105 GB of information sent out, only 12 GB written back. Servering 7.3 requests per second. Not bad. -------- Performance Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [--] Up for: 20d 21h 17m 47s (13M q [7.368 qps], 457K conn, TX: 105G, RX: 12G) [--] Reads / Writes: 94% / 6% [--] Binary logging is disabled [--] Physical Memory : 996.1M [--] Max MySQL memory : 840.8M [--] Other process memory: 479.9M [--] Total buffers: 672.0M global + 1.1M per thread (150 max threads) [--] P_S Max memory usage: 0B [--] Galera GCache Max memory usage: 0B [OK] Maximum reached memory usage: 682.1M (68.48% of installed RAM) [OK] Maximum possible memory usage: 840.8M (84.40% of installed RAM) [OK] Overall possible memory usage with other process exceeded memory [OK] Slow queries: 0% (14/13M) [OK] Highest usage of available connections: 6% (9/150) [OK] Aborted connections: 0.04% (168/457195) [OK] name resolution is active : a reverse name resolution is made for each new connection and can reduce performance [OK] Query cache is disabled by default due to mutex contention on multiprocessor machines. [OK] Sorts requiring temporary tables: 0% (50 temp sorts / 2M sorts) [!!] Joins performed without indexes: 24836 [!!] Temporary tables created on disk: 32% (46K on disk / 144K total) [OK] Thread cache hit rate: 99% (9 created / 457K connections) [OK] Table cache hit rate: 96% (609 open / 628 opened) [OK] Open file limit used: 0% (91/65K) [OK] Table locks acquired immediately: 99% (19M immediate / 19M locks) M73M is a bit crazier... Yes, I can tune a MySQL server in the basic sense to preform better. In 9 day burn up over 302 GB of bandwidth that is serving a ton load. -------- Performance Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [--] Up for: 9d 1h 12m 21s (21M q [26.860 qps], 718K conn, TX: 302G, RX: 11G) [--] Reads / Writes: 91% / 9% [--] Binary logging is disabled [--] Physical Memory : 3.7G [--] Max MySQL memory : 1.6G [--] Other process memory: 1.1G [--] Total buffers: 1.1G global + 1.0M per thread (500 max threads) [--] P_S Max memory usage: 0B [--] Galera GCache Max memory usage: 0B [OK] Maximum reached memory usage: 1.1G (29.00% of installed RAM) [OK] Maximum possible memory usage: 1.6G (41.88% of installed RAM) [OK] Overall possible memory usage with other process is compatible with memory available [OK] Slow queries: 0% (73/21M) [OK] Highest usage of available connections: 1% (7/500) [OK] Aborted connections: 0.01% (78/718877) [OK] name resolution is active : a reverse name resolution is made for each new connection and can reduce performance [OK] Query cache is disabled by default due to mutex contention on multiprocessor machines. [OK] Sorts requiring temporary tables: 0% (529 temp sorts / 5M sorts) [!!] Joins performed without indexes: 116200 [OK] Temporary tables created on disk: 16% (101K on disk / 600K total) [OK] Thread cache hit rate: 99% (7 created / 718K connections) [OK] Table cache hit rate: 98% (1K open / 1K opened) [OK] Open file limit used: 1% (854/65K) [OK] Table locks acquired immediately: 99% (29M immediate / 29M locks)

Who is dumb enough to tell their friends where they found gold? I sure the hell ain't going to do it... So @jlbayes... Tell me the secret here.

I took mine to a local rebuilder for $1,800 to rebuild my NV4500. Mine I snapped the main shaft at 3rd/4th shift ring. For the $1,800 I got the upgrade main shaft. All brand new bearings. All brand new syncro's (carbon fiber). Then I tossed in a bucket of Mobil 50 SAE GL-4 Transmission fluid. So far I'm over 70k miles on this transmission and still running strong. Fluid is still clean and shifting smooth. http://www.wellertruck.com/loc.aspx (Boise Shop)