Mopar1973Man

Yeah way toasty. Morning started at 59°F and topped out at 112°F. Too hot to be out in the heat.

I'm shut down till heat wave settles down.

No worse than 1k miles and blow a Cummins OE head gasket and have it come apart in several places. No, Cummins does not produce gaskets, a company named BLK does for Cummins.

Take a peek IAT and fuel temp match this is normal.

Gasket I'm not worried about. It's the pan bolt lip. The last one to installed the pan over torqued the bolts and dimpled all the bolt holes. Now ive gotta peen the holes back the other direction so the pan is flat again.

Make sure you get a tube of grey RTV silicone. The NAPA gasket the oil pickup gasket can be separated which your going to need to do. You can lightly silicone the pan apply the gasket. Then when the pan goes back up you'll need to install the oil pick up and its gasket first then the oil pan last.

Ha ******... Yes you can remove the pan without pullin the trans. Just drop the front axle so it hangs, the lift the engine 3 inches. Pull the pick up tube. Out it comes.

Pull the transmission and the oil pan would come out.

Copper should not be used. The following conditions accelerate diesel's aging process: Contact with zinc, copper, or metal alloys that contain zinc or copper. These metals react with diesel and form unstable compounds, which means there is higher potential for dangerous chemical reactions like explosions.

This is why the old term holds true... "Use It Or Lose It" Mine was installed back at 20k miles and currently I'm at 449k miles and it's still working. I use it daily.

The butterfly valve. Typically the brake is junk.

Since I'm doing tie rods all that out of the way makes it a bit more room to get the pan cleaned up.

. Lifted the engine just enough so I can scrape off the old gasket. Both engine mounts are 22mm. It's going to be fun to slip the gasket in.

Should be fixed now...

Me personally I would replace all vacuum lines making sure there is no cracked plastics or fittings. Even if you used a different hose and hooked from the vacuum pump and directly to the exhaust brake it should move. If not iveseen exhaust brakes that have seized from lack of use.

I'll be doing a pan gasket on this truck in my shop. I'm not going to video record this be time is tight. I'm going to unbolt the mounts and lift the engine a few inches to gain space. I did like I normally do and got a NAPA gasket. I'll be starting on this very soon.

Yup your right I doubled up the same video clip. I'm processing it now and upload this morning.

I've not processed a single piece yet. Been to busy just trying to keep up with jobs. Now at 100 plus not happening.

Your going to have to give me a call sometime and point it out in time.

I might of grabbed the wrong file to start again. Opps. When your dealing with like 30 video files you tend to forget what was last. Like I said take a peek... All the video files for this project.

Steel wheels hold up much better over aluminum. But... aluminum has lower rotational mass over steel. Even with the steel wheel I can still net high MPG. Most likely could improve it even more if I could find a set aluminum for summer, that will fit 245s with proper offset.

Funny thing is Mark my renter has been doing all my gasser work and just finished a job on a 2006 Chevy Z71 doing rear seals, new rotors, new calipers, and brakes. Just about 600 dollars worth of parts. When it left here the rear end no longer stinks....

Just be aware the total video length in 1 hour and 17 minutes when I laid it all out. Better grab a few cold beers and bag of popcorn.

@Sycostang67 your going to need a bit of tweaking on that tune mostly the Low PSI Timing Reduct and the Timing Reduct Scaling... If is laggy on the turbos then go higher in both. If it lighting quick but staying retarded to long the short both up.

Here is something to think on there is no vax for cancer, common flu, etc. Then look at the HIV and AIDS its taken YEARS to produce drugs that minimize the effects of the HIV. But now COVID shows up in under 1 year they stamp out a vax for it that doesn't work just look at Joe Biden (Our wonderful President) that bragged about the vax will keep you from getting the COVID. Funny he's now got COVID. I'm sorry gang I'm not going to take a drug that might have side effect of death or altering my DNA. The other thing is if you have natural immunity the chances of getting a second time is greatly reduced where people that have taken the vax and boosters are capable of getting multiple times because it doesn't build your immune system but breaks it down. No vax for me, and I've never had COVID even once.