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Pretty sure mine was plumbers flux. Do they make flux specific to electrical?

You can do that simple test just sitting in the truck, no help needed. Just look out over the hood and turn the wheel a little each way. If the track bar is bad you can see the hood move in relationship to the ground or anything in front of you. I noticed mine in my gravel driveway at home. The track is the only part on the front end that holds the axle from moving.

Unless your track bar is faulty how is the axle moving? Faulty as in one of the joints failed to allow movement. I know when my last one failed you could turn the sreering wheel back and forth and watch over the hood and see the body move back and forth about 2" before the wheels turned.

I just googled it. Link doesnt work for me either, but amazon had them.

My oe died at 75k. Truck was bone stock.

My mechanical shows 0 at idle. Never looked at load. But my EGT's will drop to 250 just idling. Takes a minute or so to get there.

Is one wheel sticking out from the fender and the other recessed? From the looks of the pics @dave110 might be ontothe problem.

I 40 out here in NC had some sections that were poured concrete in sections maybe 30 or 40 feet long. The settled over the years differently and made for a very bad road. The road would beat you to death in thise sections. Arkansas was worse when I first worked out there. Fortunately all those stretches have been redone. But they were harsh on the arse and the truck.

We have seen a few long life VP's of late. @Mopar1973Man at 243k I saw someone post up a pump with 253k, @Tractorman I think. Could be wrong. Mine has 240.5k and still going. And now @Rotax3006 with 252k. I be interested just like @Dieselfuture in how treated yours. Mine got good fuel pressure and a steady diet of 2 stroke. It has also survived 2 lift pump failures.

That could be part of it for sure. I know suffer from it.

The can fail right out of the box for AC and most parts houses dont know what they are looking for when testing nor the level that is acceptable. WT's ground mod is in the articles section along with Mike's simplified version. A most worthwhile and simple modification.

Same here.

I would say you are right on track with a VP failure. Codes are pointing that way too. You can get a better deal than $1500 on a VP. DAP and Vulcan performance will get you in for just over a grand depending on what you want.

I second that motion.

With 0 boost on top of that with mine. Cruising at 70 in mine, 2000 rpm and 3 to 4 pounds of boost. Definitely some drag there somewhere. I can get 11 mpg pulling the 5th wheel at 65 and it weighs15k.

8 months might be more than enough.

To be sure I understand you sent yhe ECM to SIA and they condemned it? Then sent it to the company in Florida to rebuild it? Were any of the above codes showing before you sent the ECM off for diagnostics or rebuild?

Appreciate what you do for us. Got 3 grandsons in the 82nd. One with jump wings, the other two in more logistical areas.

i like it.

I dipped all my cable ends in flux prior to heating them. Just me.

I have been running between 15 to 20 psi the entire 240k mile life of this VP. Only see the 15 psi at WOT. Normal driving i see 17.5 to 20.

https://www.amazon.com/1999-2002-Dodge-Diesel-Cummins-Gauges/dp/B0031W1FN Saw this one. E bay also had some but I know nothing about any of them other than what would be in any reviews.

Get that boost pressure up and it most likely wont smoke in OD. I would that would be capable, but I am not a turbo man by any means.

The biggest advice I got was to check grounds. Cant even remeber how many times I was told that and that alone. Of course at the time I had no idea just how important the grounds are. This was the first vehicle I had that I even knew about trouble codes and i was not even an electrical midget back then but more of a put your tongue on it and see if its hot electrician.

It would be nice if more folks that have been thru this could add to your article. When mine went back in 2010 info was non existant. I never been so alone on an a vehicle problem in my life. The dealer and couple shops I spoke with were no help either. All they coild offer is we will read the codes and replace what was necessary. Unfortunately the ECM said everything was malfunctioning except itself. The 1st rebuilt I put spit out the failed ECM code. So any of you that can help @pepsi71ocean expand his article, please help him add to it. It maybe to late for you but not others. Havingmthis back in 2010 would have saved me a ton of headache not to mention cash.