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Moparman, the prices i am refering to were Canadian dollars. I can get one for just a little over 100.00 cnd shipped to me and that Timbo is 200.00 U.S plus shipping, duty, exchange rate and taxes so about 270.00 cnd. These ones have a two year wattanty as well. Are those Timbo AAPS' lifetime warranty? And has an AAPS failure ever left anyone stranded? I' m alwsys miles away from anywhere on old logging roads etc so wondering if that ever happenes or what i need to do to fix it... I should but the new one in now then just keep mine for a spare and keep it and the tools in the truck to fix it.

You have to understand that 75% ofvthe stuff u ( or your wife) reads on the internet is false. The gov doesn't want you burning wood they want you spending money on oil to heat your home. Woodstove heat is the healthiest around.... The soothing sun like radiant heat, the excersice it takes to get the fire wood liad the stove etc etc. If the kids are caughing and it's from your stove then like moparman said you have a leak somewhere... House shouldn't smell like smoke and if you burn it hot and use dry wood there really won't be any smoke at all... Cleaned your chimney lately???

I want to post a picture of the burn piles the local pulpmill here burns on a regular basis after they log a cut block... The ammount of wood wasted is staggaring!!! Not sure how to post pics yet with my phone... One burnpile could heat your home for 3 or 4 years.... Year round!!! Lol

I seen an aftermarket "commercial grade" or industrial grade AAOS... It's 200.00 us plus tax shipping duty exchange rate etc. found some on ebay that seem to be garbage then found some other ones that are apparently good quality for a couple hundred bucks less...?? ISUMO is the brand... Anyone have any insite on this? Can i save some money or should i buy that comercial grade apps (tps)? I know there has to be a quality difference because i run D10 and D11 Cat Dozers in the Rocky Mountains of Canada here and they take one heck of a beating and we never have electrical issues... Those Cats never stop running 24-7 unless they are in for servicing... Up one side of the mountain and down the other and in 6 years saw one elect problem out of all our Dozers... Also my truck cut right out the other day so i taped the pedal fast a couole times snd she came back to life. Set that 0121 code i think it is check engine light was on for that day then next day it was gone and is still gone. Truck seems to be running fine. Is this the beginning of my aaps going and can an aaps failure leave me stranded on the hwy??

I have this same problem with my truck as well. My injection pump has 420 some thousand km's. In the morning if i bump the key to run the lift pump in the tank it will usually fire right up. I was thinking i had a onewsy check valve bleeding back somewhere. It only does this if I let it sit all night. Once it starts first thing in the morning it is fine for the whole day so it is definitely like something is bleeding back slowly. I am getting the exact same fuel pressure as you are as well and I have a new aftermarket "Airtex" stock replacement in tank lift pump and all the stock size lines. My Engine is spotless and I checked all the fuel lines for leaks and I don't feel any wet spots at all back there on those banjo fittings. Can someone chime in and let us know if there's a one-way check valve in these fuel systems? And i wonder what a BD banjo bolt kit would do for fuel pressure. Maybe it would still have the same idle and cruising pressures but on WOT maybe there would be less drop?? I looked all over but can't find anyone who did this test.

And one other thing I'm curious of is, if the stock lift pump only puts out max 14-15 psi idleing, how is the fuel ever going to circulate back to the tank? My truck often sits at 13-14 psi. When i bought it the gauge read no higher then 8 to 9 psi. Surely if these pumps needed that much fuel pressure mine would have failed by now because who knows how long the other guy ran it like that for it was at least 150,000 km which is a lot of kilometers/miles. I am going to ask other guys running around my area that have as many miles on their trucks and see how long they're injection pumps have lasted with the stock lift pumps .

I hear ya but over 400,000 km's tells me 10-12 ( and even lower at times) is sufficient or at least for this truck. I wonder if our Canadian fuel is better than the US Diesel is?? Or maybe our colder climate plays a role?? I even heard from somebody that anything over 15 psi can actually put a hole in a disk or diaphragm that is in the injection pump I don't know if that is true. What I would like to know is there going to be any warning when my VP 44 finally does fail on me LOL.

Hi all. This is my first post. I wanted to just post on one of the other vp44 threads but wasn't able too?? Anyway, i have 2002 Ram 2500 5.9 HO 6 speed with 606,000 km's (376,000 miles) probably higher because the truck has always had bigger tires so the speedo is off a little. bought the truck a year ago with 589,000 km's. Truck needed alot of work. I had always heard about the VP 44 and all the problems associated with it so it was actually the Cummins Engine that I didn't want but it was the only one that was available to me at a cheap cost so i bought it. I started doing lots of reading on the VP 44 and try and understand how it all works. I'm a mechanic by trade but I'd really didn't know anything about the VP 44. I read a ton of information that said I needed lots of pressure to keep my injection pump alive but this truck had the last injection pump changed at about 170,000 km so I was skeptical that the injection pump needed to have all this pressure and aftermarket fuel pumps etc when the stock lift pump had been doing the job just fine for many years. The original owner had his first injection pump fail at aprox 90,000 km's. They put a new pump in and once the truck was off warrant it failed again at 170,000. Owner fought with the dealer and they put a new one in under warranty and put the lift pump in the tank. After that he never had a problem ever again. The truck spent most of it's life here in Alberta Canada went all over BC way up to the far end of the Northwest Territories. Hot cold all kinds of towing with a heavy horse trailer all through the Canadian Rockies on regular basis and the truck didn't always have a full tank of fuel he would run it right till empty on a regular basis and then top it up .He did say he used fuel conditioner here and there but definitely not every tank. Fuel filters always came from Dodge or Napa but mostly Napa. I think it probably even ran colored fuel in it from time to time because the truck was used out in the oil field. Also the truck has had an edge juice attitude since about 200,000 km's. It was always run on level 3 (drive) When I first got the truck it had a bit of a hard start issue but that just ended up being bad connection at the batteries. I was really concerned about my fuel pressure because of all talk of needing high pressure. The truck showed 8-9 psi at idle and would drop down to 1-3 psi at full throttle under load. It ran fine and it started fine. I decided from all the reading I had done that this pump didn't need all kinds of crazy pressure to keep it reliable since this truck was basically driven into the ground and rat bagged it's whole life and had (at that time) almost 400,000 km's on the same injection pump. So i ended up buying an Airtex lift pump. Now my fuel pressure is between 13 and 15 psi at Idol, 10-12 cruising and drops to usually no lower than 6 if i'm pulling a hill and i floor it. Drops to 6-8 then usually stays at 8-9 psi till i back out of it. I have no idea how long this injection pump will last and when it does finally fail i know i wont be putting anything other than the stock lift pump back in. I'm not trying to say everyone should do the same just letting guys know that it is possible to get high millage with stock lift pumps. I have read many threads where guys running higher pressure still had lift pumps fail. 440,000 km's (273500) miles and still works great. But my truck is the HO so could that maybe play a roll because arent those pumps different than the non ho's? Also mine is a 6 speed so maybe the Auto trany's get driven harder than this truck did. I know the fuel filter was just filthy when i got the truck. Some dirt was laying down in the bottom of the bowl so original owner wasn't always keeping up on the maintence. I do have an intermittent starting issue though where the truck fires then stalls. Then fires up on second try. Seems like my fuel pressure is bleeding back. I wonder if my inj pump is finally letting go or if it's just a checkvalve somewhere? One other thing is it is quite a bit cooler here than some places in the usa. So that too may have played a roll too on why my injection pump has lasted this long. Great site by the way it will be fun reading all the tech tips. I really like this truck. A bit loud but i'm working on refining it. Can't believe how much power this thing has for having that many miles. Half bush road miles all through the mountains and half hwy miles. One thing i'd like to see is if those larger banjo bolt kits would help my fuel pressure drop on wide open throttle. I can't seem to find any write ups on someone doing a real world test on those things.