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I meant to say the job is NOT difficult, but I did take time with it and the beer tasted good while the project was on going. I spent a couple days on mine. I just hurry thru things I have not done before. I need proof read better read better. I just DONT hurry thru things I have not done before. Anybody seen my glasses???

When you put the heater treater did index the blend door? I would think if its not the heater is probably blocked up with debris. You ought to think about doing you evaporator while in there. All the foam are probably shot too. Did mine like you are going to do, in the drive way. Replaced the cracked dash also. Turned into a big job but difficult by any means.

Max, I am 65 and garauntee I have wasted some hours looking for my glasses only to find them on my nose.

I am closing in on you at just under 240k on mine. Boght mine when i was on the dark side of the moon.

Do you splice the whole 9" length into the charge wire? The electricaly chalanged need to know.

I was speaking of the 5v reference loop for the sensors that @Dieselfuture speaks of . I cut mine many years ago on the advise of someone I thought was smarter than me. That splice worked it way loose and caused several gremlins to raise their head. Dead pedal was part of it. By dead pedal I dont mean a dead spot thru the range of the accelerator pedal but rather the engine going to idle while under load with no response no matter how much you push the pedal. I did get APPS sensor codes during these issues but changing the APPS never fixed them. A dead spot in the pedal that you can push pedal more and get thru the dead spot is definitely an APPS issue.

Probably the best purchase I have ever made on a vehicle. Thanks for the good wishes. I feel the same way. Perhaps on my last ride in this truck my son will not feel the need to call ahead and ask them to dig a bigger hole. I am going to have a lot of fun with my son over that remark he made to me a while back. I hope I get many years out of it as I have the truck.

You are gaining on me. I am only making about 375/400 a week now. By the above, are you making fun of my "maintenance schedules"? Still proud of the miles I have gotten out of this truck but about to drop some cash with the head gasket. It will be agood time to clean up under the hood. Still all in all I have eneded up ahead on keeping the beast.

Most dead pedal issues are usually not the APPS sensor. The last bout I went thru was the 5v reference signal wire.

You can just swap a relay from the horn or such to test.

My cluster comes out with out loosening the steering column. But I might have had the column ignition cover off, cant remeber.

The mod worked very well on my truck. My ac voltage dropped from .035 to .01. It is easy to do even with the truck together.

I vote HO since you have the HO engine. Unless you have some other things in mind.

The black wire landing on that fuse is the charge wire from the alternator and not a ground wire. If thats the one speaking of.

I would have to agree with the above.

I am sitting here, fan installed in about 38* weather idling at 175.

I hope my maintenance is better but no where as good as @Mopar1973Man does to his. It is true on highway miles, most of mine are from getting home and back. I do tow a fifth wheel at 15k pounds but thats only about 80k of the miles. I would like to know how many hours are on it due to it being my office a lot over the years with a lot of idling time.

That is one fine list of trucks. Hate to think how much it would cost me to make look like those again. Especially the blue over silver long beds. The last one, whats the worry about the miles. I am only 99k behind him and mine still runs good.

That might explain it. The firstit happened to me was on the oe injectors with about 200k on them. Never had any mileage drop on them, at least on the highway. In town was hard to tell with idling and short tripping. This time the 50's in here now have about 100k on them and I have seen a slight mpg loss. I have only heard the 3 cylinder high idle on a video and it is quite alarming.

Good to know he is safe. Happy he got his truck out but I cant imagine loosing everything like that.

Mine is acting the same way. On a warm engine when coasting to a stop it will idle at 900 rpm, right when I cross about 6 mph slowing down it will drop to abot 825. I had a dose of this about 10 years ago and it just stopped doing it. I dont have clue as to what it is but mine has been doing for about year this time. Damn Gremlins!!

Rock auto does have rebuilts and new on there site. A new one from Standard Gear is $310 + shipping.

Lets see if Mike will post up the article. From reading it and talking to him it does not look difficult. I guess that would depend on what you want to tackle.

@Mopar1973Man rebuilt his and has article about it but as usual I cannot find it. Did not look that difficult to me. Lets see what he says.