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Quote " I will say this staying up till 1am then up at 5 for work is killing me." Welcome to my world, that's pretty common for me working shift work at the mine 11 hour shift plus an hour travel time 4 days a week and then taking care of all of my own personal business and my Mother in laws farm and my exercise routine of 1-1.5 hours per day everyday "Actually hit a milestone 2 days ago 1.5 years without missing a single day of working out". Been really bad the last month since I am prepping a house for sale my sister and I inherited from my mother, just hit the market yesterday so now we wait. Doesn't get easier the older you get either. You need to video the event of the first fire up, I don't want to miss the bellowing smoke you are going to see at start up. You forgot to show pics of the proper piston ring orientation on the pistons before install too, could you get some pics of that for us?

Since I now have an egt display I will be pulling my first load since the touch install Friday if things work out, won't be a heavy load, some bulky light scrap on my gooseneck to the recycling center, guessing it will be in the 18K lb range, pickup and trailer unloaded are about 14K. Will have the touch on level 3.

That one 98WL posted will cook your batteries if left on unattended as it is a full time charger and not an automatic one.

Just like a vehicle the loads change wave conditions and current conditions change and turns are another load all twill cause a marine engine to lug down, just as many variables as a vehicle has only without different gear ratios. I boat avidly and travel extensively and live and long for the marine life and ride on as many different kinds of vessels as I can and believe me they all have different conditions that make them lug, maybe a barge or cruise ship can live the perfect life of steady eddy cruising but not smaller vessels, have you seen deadliest catch where those ships are climbing waves taller than the boat in wind and storms with loads on, they are not running at a steady constant loaded engine speed.

Just like every other spec sheet which is a scenario from a perfect world that doesn't exist. Marine use is much like vehicle use and application specific and totally dependent on the loose nut behind the controls.

Helps keep the crank journals in alignment while under heavy torque loads to prevent bearing failures and or crank failures. There is a fair amount torsional twisting of the cast blocks under load surprising as it seems. This is why they are always used in Cummins marine application engines, those engines have unlimited cooling and can and do run at high hp and torque loads all day long which is what I was referring to with my 250 gallon water tank in the bed comment a few posts back.

If that ball gets clogged you have a massive TC lockup clutch or other mechanical failure that has happened or is happening and you will know it in a quick spell. It is a low pressure open center flow system and I have dug the check ball out of several fittings over the years to look at and by design it is not a restriction as it likely has more area to flow fluid past in the fitting than the actual oem line itself once unseated with what is a very light spring.

A few more than that, rancherman, Yabbadoo and others that skip my mind at the moment, Just spit balling but they all seemed to drop out when the site change took place a few months back, not sure why they chose to not come back though.

Just how I roll. Crazy is if someone would have suggested the new American Rainbow flag colors and or a fuchsia color for the valve cover.

You forgot to add a block girdle "Stiffener plate" Also a marine application part most Cummins engine builders use between the block and oil pan to keep block warpage or twisting to a minimum under high hp and torque applications and you have not mentioned the 250 gallon water tank you are going to add to the bed to support keeping those 700 ponies cool all day...........................

The fires in Northern Canada have had us so thick with smoke haze here in ND the last week you can't see a mile some times, smoke is so thick you can taste it some days. The area where all the fires are is so remote and dry Canada doesn't fight them, they started naturally by lightning so they will let them burn naturally, some meteorologists say the thick smoke haze with stick around all summer here if conditions do not change, plus with the NW US and northern US rockies being dry and if fire get roaring out there we in the northern plains will all have black lung by this fall.

You just lost warranty..................Engine assembly lube on a Cummins is the biggest no no in the world, at a shop I worked for we did a warranty overhaul on an N14 in a Steiger CaseIh tractor and it ran for a whole 10 minutes before it locked up due to a combination of using engine assembly lube and the boss being too cheap to buy an engine pre-lube pump Cummins denied the warranty due to engine assembly lube alone the they found out the shop didn't have an pre-lube pump. Was a 30K engine the shop had to eat due to those 2 things. Diesel 101 everything gets assembled with new clean engine oil period, no grease or engine assembly lubes. I have seen too many failures over the years caused by engine assembly lube. What really scared me was seeing the pistons coated with it in your pics. If you can find an engine pre-lube pump I would use it a ton to flush as much of that white crap out as you can before firing the engine, spend lots of time turning it over by hand while doing it.

I think she needs her eyes fixed before her teeth because Nick has a face only a mother could love.................................

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YES YOU R CORRECT

This thread is whacky, OP wants to go one direction with things but is adding parts to defeat the entire purpose of the original posts intent, like I said a few posts back, can't have it both ways with the direction you are headed. Either you want efficiency from cooler egts or you want performance and power that naturally bring about higher egts with the mods being made. Personally if I personally were to go about adding injectables "which I wouldn't ever do anyhow" it would be propane or just do a complete LNG system once the technology comes main stream, there are a few companies doing it already but overall is still in early development and use as of now, lots of home brewed systems out now too for LNG, most major heavy equipment mfgs are on the fence and or working with other companies to develop these systems.

Went to bed at 2am with a "10" and woke up at 10am with a "2"............

First word in post #11 was "Yep" to answer the question.

Cheaper to let her back with the herd now than later.............................Never get involved with a critter without checking its mouth first, you know its bad why buy it? Some old rancher logic I learned as a young kid, once the teeth go bad its off to the sales barn with them or just the opposite never buy it if they are already bad.

Yep, but those are useless numbers as the A/R ratio is the magic tuning number and knowing your fueling your power needs and usage to determine where the ideal power range and spooling points need to be determines the A/R ratio to help pick the proper turbo, there is quite a science to it if you look into it. The size of the wheels is only the start then you get into the numerous wheel and housing designs for that size housing and things get deep quick.

Can't have it both ways unless you go twins then.

I never read past the point I saw he had a 64mm turbo on it. Address the main culprit drop down to a 62 at most then we will talk from there.....................

You holding the selfie stick with your toes????? And would it hurt you to smile?

I rarely took it off level 3 on my 05 bone stock no gauges except when I was going to tow heavy like over 10K then I would go to level 2 that was about it. Why spend money you don't need to. Here is an add on my local classified site for a CR turbo and ATS manifold. http://www.bismanonline.com/williston_nd/cummins_turbo_with_manifold This turbo. Do not know a thing about them or how much power it will support just passing on what is in the add posted above. http://www.dfi-performance.com/borg-warner-63-68-t4-177283/