Mopar1973Man

Here you go. As of yesterday at about 3pm...

Lets say the fitting at the back of the head can be reach much easier with the valve cover off. I've got big hands so that extra bit of room really does count. Number 6 cross over tube is also in a tough spot too. If you pull the hoist ring off you can get #6 in and out much easier.

Continue like I have over the course of the last 12 years of ownership. Continue to buy fuel from a quality place that I know is up to snuff. Continue to add the 2 cycle oil to the fuel. Skip on adding any other additives. 12 years of ownership and still never gelled up. But I know what fuel station meet the requirement and which ones don't.

With the cage on it might be misleading. It will spin by hand but should spin for long period of time when the bearings are good. When bearings are shot or dry up it will still spin by hand still but the cage will come to a stop rather quickly.

Cycle mine only once in 14*F weather today and started right up. As for valve seat issue do a compression test to verify the cylinder and head health. I wonder if the cetane of the fuel was just too low? I'm starting to wonder if fuels were changed over to weather fuel soon enough this year. I know I'm not a big fan of it but you might try a measured dose of cetane booster and see if that helps. But if it does it could be fuel cetane related and it could be compression related too.

Ok. Any error codes present? Is your grid heater working properly? Is the fusible link burnt or blown for the grid heaters? Is your IAT sensor reporting the proper temperature at start up?

22*F degrees this morning. Walk in the park. Now the only change is my Fire Chief called last night and has few odd jobs down at the fire stations to do.

Sorry to say if its not in the download area I don't have one...

As the sun rise near the winter time arc way deep in the south.

Ask all the question you need! How else are you going to learn!

17*F as of 7:16 MST and still falling. New Meadows, ID proper is reporting 8*F.

When to be a bit concerned is when the little puff of smoke smells like engine oil. Then you have oil leak. If the puff smells like fuel then you most likely have a injector issue.

With the price of coolant going up locally I'm looking into the idea of coolant pH test strips and possibly a remote mount coolant filter/conditioner.

Very impressive. Your truck looked as bad as my 1996 Dodge looks now.

I'm lucky. If I want colder weather head to New Meadows, ID proper (South). If I want it warmer head towards Riggins, ID (north). Riggins, ID rarely ever see snow and rarely every get down below 0 numbers. But in New Meadows, ID valley you can almost promise a minus number every single winter and hold it for about 1 month on average. Global What? Global Warming???

What I have a hard time with seal idea being I just paid $800 last year for a turbo to be rebuilt by Industrial Injection. http://forum.mopar1973man.com/index.php?/topic/6163-destroyed-a-turbo-with-a-hose-clamp/

I'll have to try that this winter...

That's funny... I was in the same boat too after 7 years and 135k miles. I gave up on the BHAF not because the filter minder moved but, I was getting a bit worried about the discoloration of the filter media inside. The BHAF was starting to darken like the dirt was making that far. So for sake of my engine and the filters are cheap I replaced it.

No. I'm running open filter mostly dirt roads and get 100,000 miles easy out of a filter. Keep the questions coming... We love to answer questions...

I'm close I can say that your breathe will freeze and turn to small crystals just breathing. The truck exhaust will have a long white vapor trail as you drive down the road. Crankcase vent will drift all the way to the rear bumper. As for peeing I doesn't exactly freeze in mid air but it does freeze on the ground rather fast. As for the coffee mug it typically holds up well but the coffee turn cold rather fast. Basically no different that coolant in your truck it takes time to cool off. But gets shorter and short as the temps continue to fall in the minus.

I kind of wonder if the CP3 is built like the pump part of the VP44? 3 plungers all pumping together.

I'm not a automatic guru by no means. But there is 3 bands in the transmission (if I'm not mistaken). But what your suppose to do is tight the bands up to 92 inch pounds and then back off a set number of turns. Then lock the jam nut. So that's what a band adjustment is in a nutshell. I'm sure one of the gurus will pop in soon.

But now its not leaking/burning a drop of oil it still just how I filled it. Slightly over-filled.

P0237 is a MAP sensor code and the P1687 is a CCD Network communication error. As for doing the check gauge feature that just test the cluster to see if the cluster is fine but does nothing to test if the CCD network is talking to the cluster. http://articles.mopar1973man.com/2nd-generation-24v-dodge-cummins/59-obdii-error-codes/167-p0237-map-sensor-voltage-too-low http://articles.mopar1973man.com/2nd-generation-24v-dodge-cummins/59-obdii-error-codes/226-p1687-no-cluster-bus-message

Like for the last week or so I've been keeping an eye on oil level and its not moving a bit.