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I go trail riding all the time on my 06' ktm 300 xcw. In the last 2 years I have probably put 500 miles on my bike. It's the funnest thing ever.

You should be able to get it now. I've never heard of the issue but there could be anything going on in there. Short somewhere that keeps touching, etc.

Me and Mike are playing with this, figured you guys could if you wanted to as well. Basically you can only edit the blue. Read all the inscriptions and you'll know what to do. Everything ties into each other so it's kinda hard but I put plenty of errorproofing in it. Let me know if something doesn't work. Efficiency.xlsx

If you have that HY35 then the exhaust housing is only 9cm and will hurt you as it becomes a bottleneck. High RPM's help EGT because of flow.. If you go the same speed say 55mph in overdrive up a hill and then downshift and stay the same speed, EGT's will drop. This is especially pronounced with a trailer. The pistons are moving faster so they are moving air in and out faster, along with having the mechanical advantage of being in a lower gear. With the 9cm housing, you can't shove that much air through it so at high load/RPM's you will start to the EGT's get high. If you had an HX35 you would be fine, an HX35 with a 14cm housing is even better (stock ones are 12cm). I have cheated in life with the 12cm HX by adding my own wastegate controller. I don't know if you have the wastegate still hooked up stock but if you do, then you hit 30psi while outflowing the wastegate. If you think about it, that means you are just wasteing drive pressure straight out the wastegate. So I have a boost controller that keeps the wastegate completely shut until I get to 30psi, then it opens. This means I don't have to outflow the wastegate and can get up to 30psi much quicker. A lot of boost is a cheat to keep from downshifting. With a lot of boost there is a lot of flow so the engine stays cool. I used to run over 1200 easilllly but since doing that I stay under it just as easily. Most hills around here with our trailer I only need about 20-25psi to fly up. By 30psi I am in the passing lane. If I want more, that means I will hit the 30psi set point and the wastegate will open and EGT will spike. This is fine for a very short period, so it's my last resort when I figure out my current rate of passing someone isn't fast enough, so I stomp it, get in front, then let it cool off. It's basically the heat soaking into the pistons that is the problem. The oil jets under the pistons can take away heat which raises the time it takes for the pistons to soak all that heat in, otherwise they would melt prettttty quick. If I were you, get an HX35 with a boost elbow or something and that should be enough to solve your issues. Though if you're buying a turbo I would get a better one. I am not a turbo expert so I wouldn't know which but there are definitely better options than the HX.

My brother has a DTA360 also has an old 7.3 IDI turbod engine. I ran the numbers on the data plate. Scratch that, didn't put it on 8 cylinders. Here we go. [*]7.3 IDI -- 29.1% [*]DTA 360 -- 26.8%

They do it the same way. It was just a matter of me not being able to tell. They are the same though. Race cars use some 72* angle which is better somehow.

I'm gonna do the jetski wave jumping now

Well being there is no running mates according to this video, means my chart would look the same. I wanted to see some sorta flaw but I am not going to see it with the way I did it. I think the issues with the odd numbered engines is that they have no running mate to cancel out the forces of things so they rattle a lot.

I finally got my head wrapped around the whole V8 thing. I guess I had never thought about it before. The outer throws are 180 from each other, and the inner ones are as well. So you end up with all 4 parts of 90* covered. But then the V shape was throwing me off. The blocks are usually 90* V and that means when on piston gets to TDC, then being 90* V with each 90* having a throw, then the other side of the engine has a crank throw at TDC as well. The balancing crap seems to derive from the fact that there is no even order. As in it goes from the Left to the right bank firing like this : L R L L R L R R.....so there are times when there are 2 power strokes on just one side of the engine. I'm not sure if thats the cause or not but seems like it to me. Have to keep learning. And with it being like that, a V8 crossplane would have much the same chart as the inline 6, cept more lines. So heck with that. A 7 cylinder though! Or even that inline 5 in colorado trucks.... Time to read and chart.

Well crap I can't figure the V8 out. Thought they all had running mates but as I watch youtube vids it looks like some do and some don't. I looked at the duramax crankshaft and it seems to have the 2 inner throws matched along with the 2 outer ones. But I'm not sure and there seems to be all sorts of designs. But then in this pic it obviously shows a different story. http://image.dieselpowermag.com/f/34961496/1012dp_26_o+1012dp_how_its_made_duramax_diesel+bosch_cp4_pump.jpg Alright it's just a regular crossplane. Don't know what that one I saw was.

Just did this for the inline 6 http://www.mopar1973man.com/isx97/Charts/Inline6.JPG Going to do it for the V8 now. The top is TDC power/compression the bottom is TDC intake/exhaust and middle is BDC. The same color lines are running mates. So starting at the very top left that green line is #1 and you follow it all the way diagonally down to the bottom of the page then back up to the top right. I know pistons don't move this way but it's neat enough

Then start by elaborating on this After reading several bosch books I just got, I went back to cumminsforum to throw the book at their blasphemous claims. It's amazing how many rumors there are that are completely wrong and misconstrued. That was a lot of the reason I went back to college.

Yeah I hate chemistry. I swear the chemical names are made up, though they say they are made from "rules"...I haven't found the rules to make any sense. You guys really have me driven into economy topics and stuff. I didn't learn any of it in school for some reason and have a huge interest in it now. My precalc teacher is just flying through everything carelessly and when I ask how formulas were derived I get beat down. I have a hard time living with "it's that way because that's how it is" so I try and find the history of things so I can better understand them and it always works out in a way that doesn't help me through the class because of the time I spent researching. I realize there are opportunities to be had. The Boeing guy is always at school running around same with GE and other people. If I kept going I would have a aeropspace minor as well. It would be a 5 yearish process. It isn't so much the time as it is the use of the time. I'm not sure if it's just me or what but I see so much wasted time it makes me want to puke. I do no have a TV, I research and learn things all day long. I have spreadsheets open all over the place, injection pump parts all over the place. I don't have a couch or anything in here, I have more parts to things haha. My mom also told me yesterday that she thinks I'm autistic. Then she went to her room and got a 1000 page book on autism out that she was 3/4 of the way through because she is so sure I have it. I love helping you guys out better than everyone else can, why else would I be trying to get a pic up as fast as possible. I have spent probably $500 on stuff to help me understand this crap and of course I try and share what I figure out with you all. I have this theory that if everyone stopped doing repetitive crap, we would all have much more innovative things. And there is nothing more repetitive than seeing the same questions on 10 different forums that are asked 10 times a day. I want to make it so a question is asked anywhere in the world, it is answered in FULL, and that is that. I mean if we didn't spend so much time wondering why the temp gauge sways so much, we would have been working on optimal pop pressure and other things to get efficient power. I don't believe you need more fuel to make more power (and air to match)...I believe more power can be had by simply increasing efficiency. So to me it isn't "what injectors should I get", its more "what should I set my pop pressure on my stock injectors at?" and how can I make the turbo spool better and stop loafing around at low RPM. I enjoy going to college. I mean any time you can learn something is a good time. I'm just not sure I couldn't be a lot further in "life" if I just went through the library at my own leisure. Engineers have a lot of advantages in that they get to "see" very neat things that make their brains tick a little differently. There are some days I go to the library and flip through a book looking at all the pictures. The pictures give you ideas that you never thought of before. New ways to measure something (like the PITA cams) and many other things. There is a show and they are all on youtube now called Engineering Connections by Richard Hammond (the top gear guy). They are the best because they show the damn history which is EXACTLY what I want so he sees things the same way I do. I will learn calculus because I need to so badly. Then I can program excel to do it for me There are so many things in this world that just seem hidden to the average person and I have never seen any fancy calculations on any forums so it would be neat to have them all worked out and make them understandable by everyone. I don't believe anything is "hard" I always think things are just worded wrong. It's like me saying the injector pop pressure is 260 bar instead of the pressure is 260 atmospheres. Most people know the atmosphere is 14.7ish (apparently a bar is 14.5psi now) so you can easily say, ok 260 x 14.7..... then you get something you know how to do. You guys wanna do something REALLLLLLY neat that I think ties a lot of the ease of math together that teachers seems to ignore...logarithms.... Check this crap out. Basically a logarithm is finding the exponent or "power" a number has to be raised to in order to get a given number. So 10^x = 100. So x is 2... 10x10=100. Alright, simple... well you can also multiply very easily like that. I am going to cheat a lot and use numbers with multiples of the same base. So 512 x 2048.... using 2 as the base you find the log base 2 of 512 and get 9 because 2^9=512. Same thing with 2048 and you get 11. So 9 + 11 = 20. Yeah, you just did 512x2048 by adding 9 and 11.......................Meaning 2^20=the answer (1048576). That was cheating a LOT, usually you get decimals but still, I find it very neat Oh and if you subtract you are dividing. Any nth root can also be found just as easily. No I didn't learn this at school haha. But I just see a very peculiar thing going on here that teachers seem to skip over rather quickly. Now you all can buy bigger hats. Don't ask how you get the log of numbers and ruin all my fun. Though that in itself is also fun.

Completely normal. Heres why http://articles.mopar1973man.com/general-cummins/32-air-system/102-grid-heater

I have put too much blood and sweat into these damn trucks so I'm gonna continue doing it till I make a breakthrough Or I run out of blood. If I could figure calculus out I would be golden. I have some books that have incredibly fancy formulas for tons of engine calculations that I can't even read. Written in greek as are all of math formulas for whatever reason. Interesting how every greek letter seemingly, stands for a number that isn't exact. Pi, phi, e, etc. irrational numbers. I did find out that I could probably still get all the books I want because my sister goes here. She did really good in HS and took weighted classes so she is basically getting a 4 year degree in 3 years. They say engineering majors always take more like 5. Hopefully it works out for her. Hers is business management degree.

And here I thought I would get ridiculed for thinking this way Is really a relief that you all see it the same way. Yesterday I went over it with my mom and she didn't understand the problem. I then showed her a book that was 1000 pages, showed the 200 pages we would cover in it, meaning 800 pages we were just supposed to ignore. I told her I didn't want to ignore those pages, I wanted to know everything about a topic. She then explained that I didn't need to know everything about a topic and the 200/1000 pages to every book is all you need to know about every topic... The more I thought about it the more I realized that although I thought she was wrong, she was right in that that is all colleges seem to THINK you should know. The core ideals are in the first 200 pages of most of the books..so if you understand them, then they don't care if you know the finer details in the other 800 pages. But I have a huge problem with that. I told her thats called half@$$ing and that I went to a university to do exactly the opposite. I then took a step back and realized the entire USA is built on half@$$ing. That makes me want to study even harder to try and at least be a resisting force to the ever persistant H.A.ing force of the US. We have had almost 2 months off for xmas break, we don't go back till this Tuesday.. I thought that was ridiculous enough. In the 2 months I have been reading all of these injection pump books, measuring mine up, figuring stuff out, everyone else I know has been playing Xbox. Heaven forbid they try and do something out of the ordinary like learn something. I did watch the entirrree video and it does speak for a lot of things that are very apparent. The only reason I see to go to college is if you got a 30+ ACT where the whole thing is free.. Even then I am not sure because of the 200/1000 page book thing I mentioned. I ride dirt bikes with the 4.0 guy who has graduated already and he still has no clue about anything on the engine. You would think after all of the dynamics classes he would have been shown a carb. I do think part of the issue is having multiple interests. Seems to be very hard to do everything I want to know being that I want to know everything about them, not just "enough to get by".

Interesting thing is because of this (and sandy hook), a lot of people who didn't have guns before have guns now There is one thing that I didn't realize. Well for starters I am not exactly a gun expert... Well I was looking at james bonds gun for the heck of it (the PPK) and started seeing others and I found a semi auto revolver. It was Mateba Unica. I was showing my dad (who is a gun guru) and he started speaking chinese with the semi auto workings. He said it was interesting because the trigger mechanism thingamajigger that you pull back with your thumb, automatically cocked on the Mateba. He said revolvers don't normally don't work that way. Of course I had no clue what he meant since I only mess with rifles so he went and got his 44 mag and showed me. I'm probably just repeating what you all know but if you pull the (fine ill look it up ) ok "hammer" back then it locks and shoots when you pull the trigger. But if you just pull the trigger, it automatically indexes the next round and pulls the hammer back. I thought that kinda classified it as a semi auto but he said since there isn't a bullet in the chamber after it shoots, it isn't a SA. Said a pistol is always ready to go after you ____ it because the blast loads the next one and ***** it automatically. Now what I noticed was how much of a PITA it was to pull the trigger on the 44mag if you didn't pull the hammer back. You weren't just pulling the trigger, it was also indexing and doing the hammer thing. That tells me that nobody under like, 10 would have the finger strength for something like that. Plus that damn thing is heavy as hell. So then he showed me his 45 pistol and yeah, once cocked it's a weapon a toddler could use. So I saw a little bit of a safety concern with that for those who leave them cocked around the house. If it were me I would go for the 44 mag for "protection" lol. Though my dad couldn't hit a dieing deer (hit by car) from 20ft with it so maybe there is something better

This guy doesn't know the difference between the spindle nut and a lugnut so thats why he took it somewhere. Not sure what "funny" means as far as how it drove but maybe it didn't seem bad enough to worry too much about. I mean theres a lot of people who will drive it as long as it goes from A to B.. I just don't get how a bearing failure can just jump the nut. Unless I am thinking about it wrong.

I told him whatever the case never to go back there. I just don't get how the wheel could just fall off, though maybe theres something I don't know.

Sooo I might not be in college much longer. In october I was in the hospital for this reoccuring heart issue that they never have an answer to but gladly charge $12,000 for. I end up forking $1,500 of it. Well it happened the past April as well so thats $3,000 total. This last time it happened at home and we went to the hospital and they decided to take me by ambulance all the way back here and that was another $400. The issue is just that something infects my heart for about 30 minutes and makes it seem like I'm having a heart attack. Doctors don't have a clue so they say I can sit in the hospital for months until it happens again, constantly monitoring me (what a life) or just go home cause they can never find any permanent damage. Anyhow from that and other things I am like $6,000 in debt as I just added it all up. Each month is an added $800 in bills. The list goes on and on. In addition, I also have $3000 worth of student loans.Thing is, I can't really learn from teachers. I go to class, listen to them read a book to me like in kindergarden, then I go home and read it again and teach myself how to do everything. With all the classes that means in a given day I spend 5 hours listening to them and then go home and spend another 5 hours teaching myself how to do it. I could get a job but I spend so much time researching things that I would quickly fall behind in school. Meaning if the lesson is about say logarithms for math class, I don't just learn what they show, I research it until I know every single part of it. I hate having "parts" of lessons as the class moves on. If I get started learning something, I don't want to have to keep picking pieces up off the floor every time we do something that adds to the puzzle, I want to do the puzzle all at once. I have tried doing it their way and just cannot limit myself with horse blinds to that extent, i just have to know more about it. And because of that it's like I am punished because obviously doing all that research for one class means another class falls behind. Then there is the cost.. How many books could I buy with $2500 a semester? That isn't including the books for the semester.. The library has an ungodddddly amount of books. The other day I grabbed the whole damn shelf worth of diesel books. I can learn 10x more from all of that, that pertains to what I want to know, than what I will ever learn in class. I have to take all these BS classes like psychology and whatnot. I know they apply somehow or another but I want to know a lot more than I have time for in a lifetime and that stuff isn't on my list. If you are the best at something, the money will come. Look at Dave Georend.. he is a great guy, is the best, and I'm sure has plenty to pay the bills. There are diesel shops like that as well but i know there are a lot more diesel shops that half @$$ everything. I am not looking so much to fix diesels as I am to innovate them. I want to change them to make them easier to work on, better, faster, stronger, more efficient... But then there is the thing about the piece of paper called a degree... Now I understand that gets you places, but at what cost? If you got a scholarship and all that then I can see it being nothing but advantageous. In my situation I am finding a lot of short comings. We had to sit in on the senior capstone project which is what the seniors do to prove they know something. So they all got in groups of 4 and made something to show future employers. Now I have worked in ethanol plants, factories of all sorts, and I must say, I was not impressed in the slightest. Most of these guys interned at boeing in the turbine division with lead roles in seeing that things got done. But these capstone projects were things like a plastic rib spreader with a 1 time use that had no mechanical leverage so only the bulkiest guy could use it. A gun target rotator to only show the side of the target as to hide it, that thing just spun around in circles as they didn't have the right programming. Then there was a flying wing that was a flotation device that you flew to someone who was drowning, but it looked like a kick board yet they said it would hold 300lbs but the employers had doubts and the students said they didnt actually test it, plus it only went 5 minutes on a battery charge. Then there was a nuclear core sample robot thinger which used such crappy servos that it had to be energized to hold position, when they turned it off the whole thing just collapsed. I mean I'm just not sure I see the point in spending so much time in class when I could teach myself what I want to know much faster and more thoroughly. It just comes down to what can I do without a degree yet knowing more than those guys.. I think I can take certification tests and stuff to get by but I don't know. At the same time, I don't really want an engineering job unless it is in the research and development area of some place. I know a 4.0 GPA engineer who was actually valedictorian in my HS class and he is now some nuclear engineer at a power plant doing menial tasks. I realize that is the american way; to get good grades in HS, get a degree, get a job, make money, retire.. But I don't want a "job". I want a career that changes the way we live in a beneficial way. Diesels that get 100MPG, fiber optic internet throughout the world, everything. I kinda see most engineers as just skilled maintenance workers. Anyhow, don't take offense to any of this if I said something, situations are different for everyone. What do you guys think?

A guy I know has the 1995ish style F150 and his wheel fell off. He had taken it to a place a week before to have them look at the brakes. He said it had been driving weird ever since and then the wheel fell off. Now I am not much on spindle crap but from what I can tell, the spindle nut is still on there.. How could this have happened? From the pics does he have a case against them? He said " It's a family place we have been going for years the strange thing is I took it to them and it came back with the rims missing the hub cap in the middle only on the front too and they tried explaining to me that it can't have the cap but I have a pic of the truck prior with it but now there's a grease cap or something that comes out of it....."

Yes which one? http://forum.mopar1973man.com/threads/7079-The-Good-I-ve-been-up-to http://forum.mopar1973man.com/threads/7080-A-little-treat-for-my-fellow-patriots! http://forum.mopar1973man.com/threads/7095-Am-I-being-the-bearer-of-bad-news

Why's it funny? Am I saying something wrong Making me worried now

So here we have it, the list. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/16/1456381/obama-gun-proposals/?mobile=nc My concern is, aren't all of these things already out there? I mean the .22 I use to shoot squirrels has more than 10 rounds. Do I gotta send the clips in?

Hmmmmm