Hogamatog

Yep, wonder what the heck is going on

Yea it runs great now man, I'm cleaning up and painting the crank vent mod right now, one thing I can't figure out is while I'm driving down the road at whatever speed when I barely get on or off the accelerator, with my other foot near or behind the brake pedal I can feel a bunch of vibrations and can even hear a little something odd. Any ideas?

Well got the gasket swapped out and had to do the water pump, thermostat while I was at it, everything works great now. Thanks. How's it look now? I decided to get a little paint happy in the bay. I think it looks a lot better than all solid black/ sloppy neon green the PO tried to cover up.

I have no idea why I didn't replace those dern things.. Guess I wasn't thinking on my part back in the day when it was giving me so many problems. Just picked up the gasket and acquired me some bolts off my buddies 12v engine he had laying in a shop doing nothing. Looks like I get to have some fun after work tomorrow.. I appreciate the info Michael! Thank ya

Yeeep.. On the way back from buying parts to make a tester like you did I kinda gunned it when I got close to the house just to see what'd happen. Well something happened alright lol. Heard a strange pop and really started being funny with me. Killed it when I got home and could hear the sound of the air dying down.. Intake gasket like ya said bud. Now to fix.. Would I be alright to. Drive maybe 5 miles total to get what I need?

Having a noise becoming apparent only when in drive and putting my foot down.. Sounds from drivers side but could be playing tricks on me. I know the difference between the turbos whistle and this is defiantly a new one. I can't pin point. Any ideas guys? Not sure if its something gone bad.. Just know I gotta get this solved. Added a video: or at least ill try.. sorry, best audio I could come up with. This is with the AC off and radio off.trim.EdAwki.MOV

Will do! I saw what looked to be some dern white electrical tape on the new wire so ill check it out tomorrow and make a good connection to it myself. Think there is a chance they somehow deleted all of the programmers ability to do anything by reflash? I don't know too much about them.

Also had them put on the "stealth top wire" thing as well..

Well I had to break down and go ahead and get a shop to install an industrial injection vp44. Starts up immediately now but I still wonder what the heck in the pump went wrong. ALSO! They said they "re-flashed" the truck.. With my edge juice W/ Attitude I had before would put out a bit of smoke and felt pretty peppy and seems to have lost that and the smoke when I hit it at the right time. Did they mess it up?

Well I tried out hooking up the fass the regular way with hot on battery instead of the window fuse this morning just cause I fixed all my return system and wanted to see if it'd work..No goodie. It will usually crank up for me in the mornings. While I'm cranking its giving it any where from 12-18 psi and it wont bust off to save my life. So almost being late for work I went ahead and wire-nutted it back to the window motor wire, went back to the no psi cranks and it busted off for me. I don't believe its my injectors, oil looks great and runs fine after starting. Hard for me to put it in a shop right now cause I'm working out of town but I'm sure I have most of the tools I need to diagnose stuff. Any ideas on what I should check out next guys? seems the warmer this weather is getting the more trouble I'm in.

Fuel mileage is great, runs and idles fantastic when it does finally bust off, and as for an oil drip test I got a leaky tappet cover I believe so I have a half dollar mark everywhere I stop. dtc: in order they came out: P-PCU P-0645 P-0500 P-1693 P Done P ECU P-1693 P-1291 P Done

Okay had the chance to get to the return banjo and checked the T as well, both looked in bad shape, banjo not having any "seal" material on inside washer and the Ts' seals torn to shreds, replaced washers on banjo bolt behind head and replaced T completely with a barbed T and a bit of hose and clamps. Although it defiantly needed repairing on those 2 I'm still left with a very hard start. it loves to crank up in the coldish morning but it's off and on every time thereafter. Sometimes easy to start sometimes wont want to at all. What else do yall fellas think it is? Only thing I can think of that's left in my fuel system is injectors and Vp44. once it's up and running it runs great, I don't know, any suggestions?

Wow.. I meant " I've tried those".. Ill try the banjo seals first and see how it goes, tired the fuel cap before it didn't solve it.

Ive tried thoughs, just tighted them all,suppose I can just replace all the orings and washers seals, maybe one has a tear in it or something. maybe the injectors o rings? what do you think. if that could be hurting me anyways. I did, the Vulcan straw with the 3 ports.

No way I kept the hyd. hoses.. I used the fass systems hoses and drilled and tapped the side of a fitting close to the ip for fuel psi reading. If I bump it it'll build pressure immediately with no waiting 15-18 psi, my wiring it to the window motor just means it wont be pumping fuel while turning the key over. I've tried the parking down hill thing a while back, it didn't seem to help. Okay I wont worry about oil pressures then, as for the air in the line im still pretty stuck. Any chance you have a list of everything that could let air seep back into the system? I'll go down the list double checking and see if that'll cure my crank issue.

Hey Names Corey, been coming to this site for a long while now and decided to finally join in with this "new to me" truck I've had for about 9 months. I've had a few 2nd gens and actually never had any problems until this one but Im wanting to get in back into shape and see how long it'll go. Ive read the forums long enough to know yall like the sigs filled out so got that squared away from the start. I'm needing some help guys since this is my first cummins to have problems with there are a few things im still not certain of and if you need to ask me some questions to help me out let me hear them. First off, when I first got the truck on a trade the PO "said" it was a newer VP44 but had made up his fuel lines from lift pump to housing to IP out of some dern pneumatic hydraulic lines with about 6-7 different fittings, and drilled and taped a stock LP on one side to make it a standard thread. psi on the screen would show maybe 8 on idle and 3-5 WO. knowing that wasn't gonna cut it I saved up a bit of money and got the fass titanium 150 system and mounted it on the frame rail and wired it up to the window motor fuse. I'm am having some crazy start up issues. some days it'll bust off immediately, afterwards it'll take 2-3 cranks to bust, after that 6-7 cranks.. after that id have to shoot the starter fluid to it but it'll sit there and idle just fine everytime. I see 0-1 psi before I turn the key if eventually it starts up my alarm will go off showing low pressure then build pressure and be just fine. I've seen no leaks on returns (the t, banjo behind the head, and even put in a new return valve from VP). I like to know whats actually wrong with my equipment before I start throwing high dollar parts at it "new vp44" so I'd like yalls help with that. I'm the new parking lot graffiti artist with all the oil spots im leaving behind, after doing the crank case mod that left a big mess of its own, I've tried cleaning up down there so try and see where it's coming from "im thinking tappet cover" but I messed up my electric oil pressure sender/sensor with water I believe so I'm scared to take a pressure washer to it again sort of. Which bring me to this question my oil pressure electrically is reading anywhere from 40-98 psi while driving and at idle at a red light will go down to 25-35. I did get water all over it while attempting to clean one day so maybe that's the culprit but honestly I don't remember my oil psi from before hand. If yall say I need a new one that's fine by me, gives me a good reason to just blast away all the oily mess down there and find my oil leak. I think that's a good starting point for now, I want to get my truck starting up correctly and go for reliability without burning too big of a hole in my wallet but if I'll do what I have to. Much thanks, Corey