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I'm only getting notifications on some of my subscriptions, so I missed this. Solid copper bullets are longer, and thus have different friction. If the solid copper bullet is faster I would guess the powder was burning too slow before, and now with the added friction can burn more completely and get a faster bullet speed from it.

?? makes more sense.

Was his 136A stock? i can’t recall if it was ‘10 or ‘13 that the base alternator went to 180, with a 220 option.

I’ve been under the impression that NV5600’s were not cheap to work on, and fewer of them available. Which is why more people have looked at the G56. Has something changed?

More people going away from 47/48’s than going to them, especially for towing. If my 05 had ever needed a trans I would have looked hard at a G56. Not many failures for the sheer number of them on the road, and a higher average lower than any other OE manual trans.

I wouldn't say too small, as they work well for his application, but lower traction is just one of several small factors in pushing his trans to a limit. No for how I use my truck they would be too small

just my 0.02, but I compleatly agree with @KATOOM. You have another rig to get thru, so put something in you won't break. Or limit yourself on power.. don't go DD on the clutch, step down to a OHD and enjoy 350 rwhp, as that's still plenty of fun in a 7Klb truck. You are using your need of the truck as reasoning to go with the NV4500 again, but you're putting in a setup that hasn't proven as reliable for you current power. Something has to change. Because then it's easy to tell yourself that a few more hp won't hurt, and you have the clutch to hold it. You now have solidified that the NV4500 is your weakest link, once that's not cheap or easy to fix... as you well know. Besides that DD suck to drive lots of miles in, it's just not worth it. I've been reading a bit about NV4500 failures, and what you did to 5th gear is not uncommon at your power levels, and sometimes even lower power than you have. It's not nearly as strong of transmission as I thought it was. Your small tires are likely also harder on the trans than larger ones, since they break traction so easily. It's not breaking traction that's hard, but as soon as you grab traction again you shock-load the gears and the NV4500 houses the weakest gears in the truck. Just light slip-traction-slip-traction is very hard on gears. Larger tires that don't break traction so easily will not have that effect. At the end of the day you're just pushing the limits of that transmission. Do you know the definition of Insanity as Albert Einstein said it?

Ouch!

Sorry to read about this Michael! Sounds like it was fortuitous to get the '96 back on the road. I know you've driven a few DD clutches as well, but my experience with them is that they aren't worth the power that requires them for normal every day driving. That's with both Valair and SBC. I'd de-tune, or not tune in the first place, to stick with a single disk... heck I was going to take out a little torque on my 05 to run the OHD vs the OFE.

06-07's do idle rougher based on the drivers in the ECM. Dad's 06 was always very rough to me, but it was normal to him. It could be injectors, rings, or normal. At 160K miles don't replace just 1 injector, do them all. New, not reman, and from a reputable source. You might be able to do cylinder kill tests with a borrowed scanner at an auto parts store.

No. The coolant leak disappeared so I’m holding off a little but longer, as it’s not quite due. Its a 2.0/5spd.

Aren't we all. Time can be bought.... it’s just expensive and I still find that fine line between doing it myself and sacrificing my time and my body. Sometimes it’s worth buying the time and letting someone else do it. Sometimes not. New fuel pump in the commuter Jeep yesterday was less than 90 minutes. That’s worth my time. Timing belt in the Jetta might not be. The there are those things that I just won’t let anyone else do, regardless of my time.. and the wife’s dismay

Could add a usb with a touch/MM3, but I think that’s about it for an 05. Otherwise I’m thinking it might be the OBDII port???

That’s probably why you haven’t seen it done.

Have you tuned with EFI Live, UDC Pro, or HP Tuners?

The transmission can be tuned, to some extent, on 03-07 5.9’s. How much the box tunes actually do is an unknown. I know that with UDC Pro I can tune the 48RE. What year depends on what can be done.

Anything with solid steering axle can get death wobble. Steering design will impact how prone they are thou. My 05 TJ has a little bit of wobble at 48-53, so it’ll probably get all new steering this winter. It has 127K in the OE Stuff. At least it’s not as expensive as the HD trucks!

My Ultragauge will read the Jetta codes, as well the scanner at O’Reillys. Working near the Boise airport this week?

What tuner port?

Modern trucks are HEAVY! Mine is over 8K without anything in it.

Need to know whose controls arms they are.

No way to get a single event tune with that tuner. Let me know if you want any more info on Pro and a MM3

I called Commercial Tire in Ontario. They will let me buy the tires over the phone in August, and get them installed in September when I want to. There is a rebate I'll get that expires on 31 August, but I want to get one more road trip on the POS OEM tires. As far as local vs tire rack, the tires are the exact same price each and tire rack doesn't offer a road hazard on LT tires. I'm also not going to use 208 tire, thou I had originally wanted to, since there is a Commercial Tire in Ontario and Commercial Tire offers road hazard. Too good of a deal to pass up.

Good thinking. For 6% I’ll probably go to Commercial Tire in Ontario

My 15 year old chainsaw was the only thing that never cared about ethanol fuel (thou it hasn't seen it in 5+ years). I was rebuilding carbs in my all 3 of my generators, pressure washer, ATV's, lawn mowers, etc every year with treated/un-treated ethanol fuel. The carbs were always plugged up on ethanol fuel. My rigs would get 2/3, or less, mileage on 3+ week old treated ethanol fuel and normal mileage on un-treated ethanol-free after sitting. I only run it when they will sit, my testing shows similar results running it tank to tank.. there just isn't a gain for me outside of storing a vehicle. I've got 13 carbureted small engines, so for me the amount of time and money it has saved has more than covered the little added cost for 30-40 gallons a year, at most.