Mopar1973Man

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I've got my trip report after 422 miles. I hauled a Cummins CR engine down to Caldwell, ID. Then went over and spent the weekend with MoparMom. Needless to say I only did a few mild tweaks to the tune with @Me78569 help. Then added my winter fronts being the winter cold is setting in. When I left it was only 19-21*F in New Meadows, ID. Mild 50-55*F in Boise, ID. The winter front bumped my IAT temps up to 100-120 range back in my optimal area. As for the boost I'm never above 10 PSI unless climbing a grade. Even at 80 MPH it floats 8-10 PSI and about 700-750*F EGT's. Then at 65 MPH is more like 2-3 PSI and 550-600*F EGT's. Net results of this.... Trip across I84... Take note of the speed, Instant MPG and Total MPG. Back to US95 heading north. Then when I parked in the driveway...

After a full day of driving in Boise traffic stop and go I've managed to add another 0.1MPG making it now 21.8 MPG on this tank. So city driving is not pulling my numbers down at all.

400 bar is too high. That is 5801 PSI. it should be 310 bar or 4498 PSI.

No joke. NOAA has a hard time just recording temperature for the last 50 years or so in Idaho let alone for millions of years. I would have to say that is mostly scientific theory not scienctific facts. Just my opinion.

I've got nearly 150k on my NAPA bearings now and they are not Timken bearings. Food is for thought.

Here is a tidbit today. I rolled into New Meadows transmission temperature never rose off 100*F. Had to stop by a friend's place to check on some stuff. Even at 19*F the transmission temperature rose to 130*F. Ok. So I took back of heading south. I thought to test this theory I could roll down a grade to cool the exhaust off good the stop and see. The exhaust was cooled way down no real heat. Transmission was at 100*F when I stopped and shut down. Walked the dog for few minutes. Bam! Back to 130*F. So this shows the stock transmission has heat near the gears but the case cools just fine. Being the sensor is high and close to the gears I can see the heat after a short stop with the engine off. Also this shows that the oil doesn't flow or circulate as much as we thought. This is very repeatable.

I just made a trip down to Boise Idaho hauling a Cummins engine. Made 21.7 MPG. My trip started out with temperatures at 19 to 21*F. Still did good, timing floating 19 to 20*. Still running strictly speed limit even 80 MPH on I84. No complaints here.

Might be a good time to test your injectors. Might be a boost leak too.

Takes 3 hours to calibrate and flash a VP44.

Get a live data tool like the OBDLink or ScanGauge II and check the ECT sensor and the IAT sensor at your first key on. They should both match in temperature. If not then you might want to replace the IAT sensor. NOTE: Do not bother cleaning the sensor it will not change it's performance. That is an internet myth.

If you have dynamic mod the valve body he can make it pump in park. So now on my 1996 Dodge its just needs a minute or so to fill the torque converter after the first start of the day. No need for neutral to fill the torque converter now.

Forum in place but need to get staff and set up to handle doing phone calls and method of security checking people joining the forum. My time has been limited with @MoparMom issues at hand. So we'll get there yet just going to be a bit longer getting there.

#1 - Never. Always mixes with diesel very well. #2 - I would say the same thing ask Nick. From what I understand all emission testing is looking at smoke opacity. So if you have the right ratio it should not be a problem. You should have the truck at full temperature and ready go when you go to have it tested.

I'll be doing snow removal this winter. For what I know I'll be running a Bobcat with a snow thrower on the front and doing 40 homes in McCall, Idaho area. I'm use to seeing quite a bit of snow up here in the mountains.

I've still got my reservations about the whole cooler idea. Sensor place on the coldest place and nothing to really circulate the oil. Hence the sensor will of course, see cooler temp being farther away from the hot spot being the gear teeth. After doing some testing of oil temps with a digital thermometer I find the oil is the hottest near the gears and gets cooler the closer to the case. Since heat rises even in oil the best spot is high as possible on the case and close as possible to the gears themselves with your temperature gauge sensor. Again there is no pump to move the cool oil back into the case near the gears themselves. Kind of like a candle. The flame heat the wax and melts. The air is cooling the wax round the rim and it doesn't flow back to the hot spot near the flame. So putting the sensor at the rim of the candle is not measuring the wax temperature where the wax is molten but where the wax is already cooled given the illusion of the coolers doing there job when the gears (wax near the flame) are still hotter. As winter is coming I'm having hard and hard time get the temp gauge to even rise off of 100*F for any length of time so now it becomes a problem because you can never heat the oil enough to remove moisture. Even with my runs down the interstate I'm lucky to see 120*F on my last trip at 80 MPH. Even towing the most I see now is 130*F hauling 4 ton of hay. I'd be more of believer if there was a plate with hydraulic pump and cooler mounted to the front of the truck like the industrial transmissions like Eaton Fuller.

No. My cellphone is running the iQuad Bluetooth app located at the transfer case lever. My Azpen a729 tablet is running the OBDLink Bluetooth app located in the dash pouch.

I just had this same conversation with a shop in Riggins, ID. I guess there is a gal driving a Dodge gasser truck and see ran it down to less than a quart in the crankcase but the oil light or gauge never dropped at all. The shop keeps warning her to check the oil more often or just stop by and let the guys check it for her. This is her 3 time of running this low. She is running on borrowed time.

For those that do want to use your cellphone (Android)... I've got a LG G4 Android phone. I've got it loaded up with the iQuad BT app. Then got all my MP3 music on it. So all I got to do is fire up my MP3 player and the iQuad app. If the phone rings then it piped through the stereo for me. As for the iQuad app it works very well with a cellphone. Like in my setup the music is playing, then phone rings it pauses my music drops the iQuad app. Now as soon as I finish the phone call it drops the phone app and returns the iQuad and resumes my music. Very slick setup and no complaints.

I don't think the older PV module will understand the v2 software changes. Because there is no option to import or export by device yet. The only then you can do is adjust all the settings by your phone. You can't export or import flashes from your phone yet. No. iQuad doesn't store anything it just a transceiver. Yes, the iQuad is the only way of communication unless you remove the main module and flash with you PC using USB cable. Like myself when I was in Homedale Idaho I was leaving on level 1 with a power reduction of 95% which made it a turd.

As I'm checking my local weather it right on track. https://weatherspark.com/history/30994/2016/McCall-Idaho-United-States Like yesterday here it was a HI of 53*F and LO of 40*F. Like I said right on track.

Yeah... It's called winter time when there is less solar radiation because of sun position in the sky.

When there is absence of matter there is nothing to heat. So in the vacuum of space the solar heat has nothing to heat. Like down here on the planet the air we breathe will heat and expand and cool and contract. Objects like trees, roads etc. will also attract heat depending on colors.

Hate to touch on religious side for but... The Good Lord said that nothing can be destroyed or created. So that being said the amount of carbon on this planet has been the same since the beginning of time and will remain the same. The only thing is man is polluting areas by concentration of people and emissions. Now looking at America we are doing a fairly good job of keeping clean air for the more part. Now go over to China its a whole different story.

That's cold...