
Everything posted by Mopar1973Man
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Makes me sick
https://www.usdebtclock.org/ Now on the right side of the debt clock look at dollars vs oil, silver and gold. Dollar is worthless.
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Ball joints and Control Arms, Suspension in general
Just bought the cheapest ball joints off RockAuto and back then I knew Moog was no longer American made so I took ACDelco ball joints. Installed back at 180k miles to replace the factory Spicers. Currently I've got 460k miles so that's 280k miles on those ball joints.
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01 24v dead in the water....
Any pump without a 3rd line for return is going to create cavitation issues. This is why I like the AirDog series. Any air is returned to the tank also the pump is never ran dead head being the pump has a return and can always flow to the tank.
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Makes me sick
Can someone say Gold Back Money?
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Day off and take a ride
I came down to Parma ID to hang out with a friend. We loaded up ATVs and hit a old favorite riding spot in Oregon. Called Beer Break Canyon". We both stopped for a beer break.
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Tried a set of LED headlights
Next above that is Morimoto HID headlights which is more light than LEDs. Still HIDs are the best. LEDs are better but rely on quality reflector to make a descent beam path. Sport headlights were poor quality that I had. Then relaying the bulbs just really didn't improve. Morimoto HIDs can cover 50 foot tree at a 1/4 mile. 50 foot over either side of the road.
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Vehicle Accident
He had serious injuries and went to the hospital.
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boost elbow questions
Yes installs right in the boost hose. Mine is different design. @IBMobile I know has one maybe he can post a picture. I know we got ours off eBay.
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Best radiator replacement
Just rambling of a mad man. Cummins fever is real. No Vax will save you. All we have is our support groups to try and tame the symptoms and keep us from losing control of our wallets.
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boost elbow questions
Timing must retard to push more flame out the exhaust to spin the turbo. More advancement will cause it to burn most of the fuel in the cylinder. Little boost will be made. My current tune I run right at 25* BTDC at 2,000 RPMs which nets me about 2 to 3 PSI of boost at 66 MPH. Now get the timing to drop from crossing my engine load limit of 25% then the timing drops to 17* BTDC and then the boost builds rapidly. Factory injectors should be able to push a good 30 to 35 PSI of boost easy. But if they have more than 100k miles then the injectors are wore out and just not going to perform very well being the pop pressure is low and the spray isn't atomized very well so power is lost. Most of the cheap boost elbows don't really work all that good if it allows too much boost to still leak through to the wastegate. Some of us got lucky and got a China made boost fooler for about 8 dollars. Mine is a screw together body with a spring and check ball that has to work the pressure up high enough to push the check ball open. Now here is a real boost controller for your wastegate... https://www.genracer.com/grimmspeed-universal-manual-boost-controller-for-mechanical-wastegates/?action=select&sku=GS070002
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Weird Defueling Issue, any advice can help.
Injection pump is have timing issues most likely the injection pump is galling up the timing piston and starting ot stick randomly. So I'll bet that the PSG has had some thermal events too hence why the coolant getting warm helps.
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01 24v dead in the water....
Gotta ask do you have the new push lock style fitting or the old school JIC hydraulic screw fittings? If you have push lock style that just snaps it might be pulling air in. So a little temporary trick is to pull the suction line fitting as put a coating of thick bearing grease on the smooth nipple and re-install the fitting if this stops the air lock issue then I would suggest swapping to the old school JIC fittings and that would stop the air leak issue on the suction line. Why is this a problem simply the push lock style fittings will roll back the o-rings in the suction lines and loose there seal and leak air. This is best... Can be got from Vulcan Performance. Just Eric I sent you to him. This is not good... These have the air leak issue.
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Weird Defueling Issue, any advice can help.
I'm still thinking its a electronic being the set temperature range that things change. It's like the software on the ECM has been altered. No way to tell if there is a Smarty tune in or some sort of custom tune from like a EFI or other tuner. Just easier to reflash and try again. Even if you had another ECM it should change back to that software.
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Tried a set of LED headlights
Like the set I got for Minnie I had to install the adapter into the headlight case first making sure it was index properly. Then the bulbs were indexed for for the adapters and only would sit in one position no way to partial turn them or misaligned them.
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Best radiator replacement
Radiators ain't exactly rocket science. The only thing about OE radiators is you'll find that most are plastic header tanks and rubber gaskets. Will it leak? Eventually, it will. As for a fully full aluminum radiators will leak just the same in time. Your not going to get more cooling from a high price radiator vs chain store radiator. The physical area of the radiator is rather fixed you might get a extra row of core tubes at the most. Either way the factory radiator works very well for years most don't have heat issues unless really bad final ratio with hot injectors. That's not a radiator problem it more about a poorly set up truck. Another tidbit if you read up on thermal efficiency you'll find that running a hotter thermostat will reduce the amount of energy wasted into to the cooling jacket. Why? Because heat is attracted to cold and the greater the offset of temperature between the cylinder and the coolant more energy will be wasted into to the cooling jacket. This is why I typically just use the 190*F thermostat vs a 180*F thermostat which I did study on my long hauls that the 190*F gave better MPG's. Crazier yet grab a 200*F thermostat from a 4th Gen and run that. It will improve that just a little bit more. Yeah I'm rambling again...
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Headstud install
When your ready just give me a shout and we will sit down and have a phone call chat and I'll get a feel for what you want to build. I'm enjoying my current tune being its a mild daily driver. I typically run level 2 on slick roads but dry pavement I'll run level 3. If someone wants to play I toss the wire tap to it. Now I've got a chance. I want to get some time after I'm done playing with my daily tune then build a strong performance tune that just absolutely sends that truck down the pavement. Then I need a good towing tune that is still eco-friendly but nice low EGT's.
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Best radiator replacement
Very good video thank you for some truth.
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01 24v dead in the water....
Stock lift pumps do not have a return... Only fuel system with a return is a AirDog 100/150/165 or a FASS 100/150/165 fuel system. Typically have two filters. Now like AirDog Raptor series does not have a return to the fuel tank. FASS DDRP does not have a retrun to the tank. There are few other pumps are just in and out without returns. Then no pump system out uses the stock return line because its too small for the volume. It only 6mm ID steel pipe or down on the frame would be a bit larger but nothing should be returning fuel in that line but the injector return and VP44 return that should be it. There should be zero pressure in the return line because that would cause pressure problems being the pressure will blow pass the overflow valve and back flood the VP44 screwing with the timing and other issues. Also restricting the cooling flow being its fighting to return to the tank as well. I would high suggest you remove that return from the pump and plumb it to the filler neck of the tank.
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Vehicle Accident
One truck totally jack-knifed... The propane port is on the ground side of the tank.
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Vehicle Accident
Locally just about 5 to 6 miles south of me a propane truck rolled over with about 11,000 gallons of propane. The highway has been close heading south. Now according to what I know HAZMAT crews are attempting to drill and vent the propane to be burned. Last night Idaho power had shut power down for at least 4 hours. When the power came back it showed the highway open. Now this morning highway is closed again. I've got to get info today to find out what happened. I was planning on Friday having a customer come get his truck. But the highway was blocked by the accident. Bad part neither my cell phone (Active 911 App) or my fire radio (Digital project 25) toned out. I never even knew that the accident happened. Why I'm outside the loop. Even if I had a wrench job I couldn't get parts being both of the NAPA stores I deal with are south of the accident. No US mail being it comes from the south. Limited supplies being Riggins is a small town. Few of my friends had to make the long trip of 7 hours to drive all the way to Ontario OR to catch I84 and head north towards Lewiston to come back down US95 again through Riggins. Even my neighbors 80+ years old wound up driving 7 hours to get back home. Sadly I had plans for this weekend to head to a friend's place and go ATV riding in the southern Idaho. Make things worse my water heater here at the house started leaking. Thanks to Mark my tenant in my guest house managed to get me a water heater from Fiddle Creek hardware. So this morning we got to finish the install and convert it over to 110 VAC with 1100 watt elements from my old heater. Remember I only have 4kw inverter I can run 4500 watt elements. Hence the conversion. Highway is closed between milepost 180 to 161. I'm at 181 milepost and the tanker is at milepost 176.
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New 2nd Gen owner
@Honey Badger can only drive automatics. Both of my trucks are manuals. The only one she has driven is Minnie.
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Weird Defueling Issue, any advice can help.
Easiest either send the ECM out to be checked by Auto Computer Specialist or heading to a dealer having it flash to true stock.
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New 2nd Gen owner
Figures... @IBMobile would post his photos he got of me. We all had a good time. Yeah even I've got a wild side.
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New 2nd Gen owner
Yeah I'm sure you will post the pictures of me wearing the blue and black.
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Weird Defueling Issue, any advice can help.
Basically in the nutshell you have +5V signal from the ECM and the thermistor will vary the resistance the higher the voltage the higher in temperature. Lower resistance would give more ground lowering the voltage making the temperature read lower.