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Well I dont have one but i will when I retire. Building some things like that around here for us will be therapeutic for me.

Work just wont get out of the way. Been reading over this and it just confirms something I have told my kids thru their journey thru life. No matter how it seems you can always someone who has it worse than you. So dont pity yourself. Just get up and move on. I still believe this is true but the older I and all of us get it does seem a bit harder find. @Russ Roth I am sad for your problems and would offer a visit but I believe geography is my worst enemy. I wish you well. I really enjoyed the conversation we had a while back on your Viet Nam experiences. My older brother was a Medic like you and you and him chewed alot of same dirt in the Pleiku area. His joint problems pale with yours but I am proud to know you both. @JAG1 Smoking is a tough one to drop. Back in my younger years we were hard partiers. Messed with a lot of stuff we probably should not have. But tired of it and just put it down and moved on. Seems the smoking is the hard one for me. Wish you the best in overcoming the ones you are dealing with now. @Mopar1970man I pray your cancer never comes back and your other issues find cures. And to all those I have missed, I wish you all the best. Being a member here with all the comradery about our trucks we seem to find a way to know one another a bit. Good life and the best of health to all. Dave

Just back seeing this old friend. I wish you the best and wish I could help you with it. Getting old is a big crap shoot. I got 2 brothers with serious joint issues. One older and one younger. I seem to blessed not to have those problems. Today I go to Lowes to get some sand mix. 8 60 pound bags. Load the car, pay for them then load them in the truck. Sit in the cab for 5 minutes trying to get my breath back. Guess I need to keep one of my MIL's oxygen tanks in the truck. All my best to you.

Sometimes you just have to find a win if need be. I will keep looking for mine.

Some of us might remember when my truck tried to eat a BMW. Took a pretty good bite out of it. And if you look closely at the fender right at the crease in the silver portion is the start of a rust hole that has since made its way to a finger sized whole. I picked up a rust free fender a few months back. Just need to paint and find the time to swap it in. This was a bad day at Chick fil A. Of course I could let it get to a beer can size repair, I know a guy in Iowa that is skilled in that art.

A lot of us have the same disease. I am not afraid to take my whole truck apart. But if there is a wire attached to something it freaks me out. I have to replace my drivers fender and I cant wait to have the PDC in my hand with all its wires. Oh joy.

Just to clear the air bit. The way I am reading some of this is calling the elbow a boost fooler. The boost fooling is done in the EZ and not the elbow. The elbow is just keeping the the wastegate from opening at 20 psi. If am misreading this I will go to my .

I figured they were important to help hold the lines steady with all high pressure pulsese they are exposed to. I lost my #5 injector about 3 years ago. Failed right near the head. There us a clamp there on 5 and 6 and mine was missing. Always thought that had something to do with it. May e someone here knows more about them than me. Dont loose the clamps, they aint cheap. I paid $8 for each piece of the clamp l was missing from Cummins.

A bit off topic, but do you not use any of the factory clamps on the fuel lines? Glad you found your problem though.

Penzoil is all i have used for the 320k or so miles on this trans. The first 52k were most likely the Mopar since I bought it used

I didn't notice either the tag or the sticker. 40 boards haging halfway out the bed is what caught my eye. Thats alot weight behind the wheels and its sittig level. Always liked that picture.

It worked with 9v battery every time. I was able to close the case with 2 leads out of it from the electrical connections the motor touches and made it work. But connected to the wiring harness in the truck it would not work. I guess the circuit board in it is toast. I reinstalled the actuator just to be safe with the blend door. I also ran 2 leads out of the case again just in case it gets hot before I put a new one in. Going to be cold here the next several mornings. Hence the need for the heat.

Well plugged it into the wiring harness and the motor did not turn no matter which way l set the temp control. Even tried it on my new to me hvac controls l got to power the heated mirrors with. I tried powering the circuit board with the 9v battery and still. Though l have admit l was not sure if l was doing that right. Might stop at the junk yatd tomorrow and see if l can one and try it out. Hate to spend upwards of 135 bucks hoping it works. But at least the heat is working now. Does anyone know whether or not the blend door can fall out of place without the motor in place? It does not want to move up and down as it is but it does wiggle around at the bottom some. With the blower on it is held in place quite well in either ac or heat.

I'll say.

As winter wound down last year l noticed my blend was moving real slow from ac to heat. It finally stopped moving in the spring in ac mode. I was fine with that formthe time and now winter is here again and l want some heat. Figured the actuator had failed so l broke down today and pulled it out. Opened it up and found this. Not sure it shows in the pictures but the motor contacts are not touching the electrical contacts in the box. I pulled the motor out and put a 9v battery to it and sure enough it spins. I put the motor bacK in and touched the battery to the connectors an pushed them to the motor contacts and it works just fine. Not sure why they did not do better job on the electrical connetions inside that box. So l am going to redo the connections and reinstall it and see what happens. If the motor is just weak I have found replacement for about $10. If the ciruit board is bad i guess l will have to by a new one. And they aint cheap. Cheapest I found so far was on RA for $115 + shipping.

I re read your post and I guess i forgot your heater out put. Seeing temp drop in the engine at a stop light sitting for a bit is not unusual but it should come back fairly quick. In that 10* weather mine would get over 140 and loose alot of that at any red light l came to when l went thru town. Still a bit warm for cardboard or fronts. My heat output on the heater seemed to diminish some after l did my heater and box several back also. Figured it was something l did since the foam for redoig the hvac vents was a bit different than what was oe. The heat want run me out of the cab now but l stay nice and warm just on higher fan setting. Mine is stuck on ac at the moment. Figured the actuator had gone bad. Just pulled it and that was not the case. New thread soon to be posted.

Going to have try a new bushingn on mine too. 300k+ on it and it doesnt like to line up on the 5th to 4th downshift. Could just be me since it will line up if I let go of the shifter while in nuetral.

Mine has done this to varying degrees ever since I bought it. I spent some time in Indiana the first winter of ownership in 10* weather. The only way to warm it up was drive to work on the interstate. Across town at every light you could watch the temp drop as doon as you stopped. I had to shove cardboard between the intercooler and radiator to help. Alot of us have winter fronts that block the grill in cold winter months. I still use cardboard at times if its only briefly cold. You could have some air trapped I suppose but the coolong system in thes truck is very good.

I keep an eye on the fuel gauge and the odometer. If my gauge went whacky I would know it with the mileage. If that kind of chit started happening I would not run it low until I figured out what was happening. Mine gauge has read the same way since 08.

I have regularly run mine down low on long highway trips. That on the oe basket and later on the intank basket before and after converting it to the AD. The pick up and both returns to the basket. The 35 gallon tank has allowed me to make long trips home and avoid the high dollar gas states or just do a non stop run if I had it in me. Never bothered me to run it to empty. I can still stop when the low fuel light comes on and put in near 31.5 gallons every time. I just figured since I have a 35 gallon I am going use it all. But thats just me and how I choose to do it.

Hah. Picked up a spare tire wench from the lical dealer a couple years back. Couldn't leave without looking. Started with a 1500 ecodiesel, 55k. Went uphill from there.

It baffles me too. Never expected that kind of life of this stuff.

My impression of looking at new trucks.