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This is all too familiar lol. I guess I am part of the worthless generation (I'm 22) and it's hard to get the point out that I'm not one of them. I know exactly what hd99fxr3 means though as every other person I know from my generation is a piece of crap. HOWEVER, I have seen far worse out of THEIR generation Guys who take bathroom breaks every 5 minutes, guys who work the clock to do as little as possible. I have had countless jobs on construction crews, in factories, in commercial outfits, as contractors in factories and such, and I have always seen the same basic facts and I will lay them all out. 1. People spend way to much time worrying about the person making more than them with less experience and no work either...... WHO CARES! There is something called personal satisfaction.. My last job I was the sole electrician to a new company destined to be a huge outfit. I was in ethanol plants and factories doing big electrical jobs, by myself... There was no person to ask questions to when I got stuck and I don't exactly have 20 years experience beforehand in this. My job before that was an apprentice for a year at an electrical place who really shouldn't call them selves electricians IMHO. So I took the skills I learned from trade school and from that year of basically what NOT to do, and did my thing by myself for a year. I would get a job and go home and study everything I needed to know about it. The wire size I needed, the panels I needed, everything. I had to learn how to do complete panels of PLC's and frequency drives (since all of the jobs were factory jobs). I did this making the SAME money as a peeon laborer who's previous work experience was an oil changer at jiffy lube...... I know that would set 99% of people off, but I could care less. I was basically my own boss. When I screwed up, I kicked my own rear. When he screwed up, the boss chewed him out.. When he had questions, he had people to ask. I loved the fact that I had nobody to turn to because it forced me to search for answers and figure out way more than I wanted to know at the same time, whereas he was just told "yes or no". I would have NO problem running a crew of electricians now, even if I only made say $10/hr. I can live off any income as long as it's income...making no money runs out eventually. 2. People do not care to excel anymore.... The guy I just mentioned would often tell me he knows how to do something, but doesn't tell the boss because he would then want him to do it and that would put a lot of pressure on him..... I wanted to snap his neck every time he told me that. I realize things are hard.. Nobody really wants to dive into anything that they don't think they are "good" at. This is just fear and you gotta overcome it. There are ways to get good at it and if it something that just comes as experience then the boss should realize that you aren't going to be good at it any time soon... If it requires you to study it to learn it and become good at it, then do it. The same guy was told to do that and his response was "you gotta have fun in life too".. meaning he would rather get drunk than end his constant fear of having to do something at work that he doesn't know how to do. If, however, you want a job like that, then work in a factory on the line, moving one part over, all day long.. I am not saying factory work is bad. I did it for a while myself. It is needed to teach people how to be consistent and do work constantly. A lot of contractor jobs (especially electricians) like to work on a 5/10 ratio. As in they work 5 minutes and do nothing for 10 minutes.. I think it is obvious contractor jobs usually make more than factory workers who work their ___ off (most of them anyways, I know there are inspector jobs that seemingly require no effort) and this makes me realize I should be doing the same or more to get the higher pay I receive. 3. Breaks......I refuse to take breaks. Electrician jobs require little effort IMO. How hard is it to land wires.. I have however pulled in 100ft of 500kcmil wires through 2-90's by hand and dug trenches several feet deep with a shovel on 110F days...in which case it is impossible to not work at it for 20 minutes, and take a 1-3 minute drink of water break. But 90% of contractor work does not have this kind of kill yourself work. A break also seems to turn 1 day into 2 days so the day seems even longer. I even occasionally skip lunch entirely or take 2 minutes to eat a sandwich.. You don't need half an hour to make the 8 hour day turn into 8 1/2 hours (since you don't get paid for lunch) when you do work that doesn't require much effort. Now the PITA work I mentioned, yes, I take a full blown lunch. 4. Watching the clock.....I see people looking at the clock every 5 minutes. If it is 10 minutes from break, the will slow down or even start taking a "pre-break" (what I call it). That's just BS. Then there are people who completely put up shop 30 min before it is actually time to go home. At the electrician apprentice job, guys wouldn't leave the shop until 7, and would put up and make it so they would get back to the shop by 3. That means if it took a half hour to get there and get set up, and a half hour to put up and get back to the shop, they would lose an hour of actual "work". I convinced the guy I worked with (we were 2 person crews) that it was BS and we ended up being on the job working before 7 and we wouldn't even stop working till 10 or 20 after 3. Putting up early is cheating the customer out of a "good job". After all, the more you slack off, the long it takes for their stuff to get in service, costing them money. Just because they give you a deadline doesn't mean land the last wire the minute beforehand, get it done as quick as possible. 5. Comparing yourself to everyone else as to how hard you should work.. This ties in with #1 a little. If the person next to you is slower than you, don't work as slow as him, because he might just be waiting for you to make him look slow so that he can speed up. There was a time when I worked in a steel shop racking steel. There was a guy who was maybe 70 years old. Hair as white as snow and more wrinkles than a wadded up piece of tin foil. He was only 5ft 6 or so and really just looked like a scrawny old man. He would come over and pick up half of a 300lb square tube (me on the other end) and practically run to the rack dragging me along and throw his end on the rack and be waiting for me to get my end up.. This really showed me how the old timers worked and was a huge motivator to me. It was then obvious that just when you though you were working hard, you were completely wrong and some old guy could come over and make you look like a girl. I think most of the current generation is never showed up like that so they never realize how slow they are. 6. Safety should be common sense.. I too have had a lot of close calls mainly from everyone else. People telling me to cut things and things just happen to collapse and stuff.. I have even almost walked right off a 100ft drop because I was holding something big and couldn't see and we didn't have a harness on that woud pull on the lanyard if I had got close to the edge. A lot of this is due to stupid foremans but also lack of experience on my part. You think its no big deal until something like that happens. Foremans can tell you of the risks but you never truly understand them until you have a close call. Hopefully you survive the close call... I have seen olddder generation being 10x stupider than younger and vice versa. I kinda got lucky because at the steel place the boss would throw a hammer at you from 20ft away, and yell your name as it was airborne. If you didn't turn around instantly, you better hope he wasn't aiming for your head. 7. One of the worst things I can't stand is gossip. I don't know which generation is worse but geeeez. There is a new company in my city that is huge and there have been rumors that they are running red diesel, that they are evading taxes, that the FBI is investigating them, to the point that they have had to make columns in the newspaper to defend themselves. But then there is the constant stuff about your foreman or boss... He is a piece of crap, he does this wrong, he...... HE HIRED YOU! If you have a problem, take it straight to him. Don't tell everyone in the plant that he declined workmans comp to someone who deserved it, because you probably don't know the whole story, plus, it's almost definitely none of your business. If you don't like how he does things, talk to him or leave. Do not be like all the other people who show your dissatisfaction by doing a crappy job thinking he will call you out and then you can turn it around and call him out and somehow end up on top, that is so low on so many levels. I realize there is a rank thing that scares people. The janitor doesn't want to talk to his supervisor or the CEO of the company, but if it isn't wasting their valuable time then there is no reason you shouldn't be able to formally ask them if they can spare 5 minutes. Maybe the janitor wants to ask the CEO if he it would be wrong to take the stuff off the CEO's desk to clean it....I guess to sum everything up, be happy you have a job, do not live above your pay scale (don't buy a jaguar if you work at mcdonalds), and do not worry about what others are doing. That guy who you say does nothing could be a the son of a boss's friend who the boss was in the army with and lost his life defending everyone... It is none of your business to ask why he does nothing, it is the foreman's responsibility. Just like hd99fxr3, I'm not trying to make this personal, merely trying to show you some facts of life that might help you

I would order it based on which will be serviced first.. I also question some of the things on there. You have change serpentine belt and brakes every 22,500 miles. I think that should jut be inspect.. I know my serpentine belt is well over 100k miles and so are the brakes. I think Mike even has the original brakes on his and hes got 200k. Umm actually those are the only things I question on your list, everything else looks fine. Rearrange them like this..

What do the black cells represent?

I'm not 100% on that. The 97'+ have OBDII and I think that would make them differ to the point that you couldn't swap them. Other than swapping one with the same spec truck, I don't know how you would test the ECM. Have you checked every single fuse?

Yeah, key on. And that wire sounds like the 4wd light sensor whatyoumacallit. http://articles.mopar1973man.com/general-cummins/39-transmission-systems/80-central-axle-disconnect-cad-system-troubleshooting

I don't know if thats the same one but my dad has them on his truck. They are reallly nice. A lot better than trying to get a tie down in that recessed hole in the bed (now covered by my tool box). The one he has is an aluminum rail maybe 11 gauge and it's really rigid.

Ok here is the way to test your CPS. Black/blue tracer is the sensor ground wire. It should OHM close to zero to the battery ground. Tan/yellow tracer is the 8 volt power feed to the sensor. The voltage regulators on the PCM's are kind of loose. This voltage can vary around some. Gray/black tracer is the signal wire. If the sensor is on a smooth section of the balencer there should be little if any voltage showing. When the sensor is on one of the air gaps it should show around 5 volts.

My 97' uses the 1 wire as well. The resistance goes up as temp goes down. If you unplug it, obviously there is no connection but the computer interprets it as max resistance or -40F..I got a digital gauge and love it. After the initial digital EGT gauge, I have been slowly converting everything to digital. Nothing like an exact number.

Moparmom called me to say mike has been at it for 48 hours now and needs sleep so until he gets back on here and gives the go ahead, don't try calling him because it is just flooding moparmom. If you have an emergency then you would be better off looking at the 911 section or calling me (though I am not available often currently) at 660-287-7318. A lot of peoples numbers are in their profile if you click on their name.. Thanks guys.

Everything that has to do with the injection pump (other than timing) would have no effect on EGT. I can see a lot of arguments coming from that but fuel is fuel. I don't care how or when it gives you fuel, when you push on the pedal, it's going to give it more fuel. So if the timing is right, I would look at other things. But what!? Valves, injectors....

I would think that's from no air moving through the intercooler other than what the fan pulls through it which would be the really hot air from the air conditioner radiator thingambob, plus the engine radiator-majigger. Plus there is a water jacket around the intake manifold which heat soaks the air even more. So 160 is perfectly normal I'd say.

I would like to tinker with that thing. It's hard to explain all the things on here plus without driving the thing it makes it all the harder. There are several things in the ppump that all play a part with how it runs. How did they reset it anyways?

What do you get unloaded? No trailer or anything..

What speed were you running?

I installed all the new update things. I don't know what the deal is. It is almost unusable slow. If I can just get it to network then I wouldn't care since I won't have to use it. I did the samba thing to put them on the same workgroup, shared a folder on ubuntu, shared the printers. Checked the guest box so there would be no authentication for sharing that folder. 7 still sees nothing. Ubuntu sees 7 but 7 can't seem to see anything on ubuntu. I just want to share the printers and external hard drives, the computer will not be used for anything else. It's just a router for my files/printers..

I found all of the fancy monitors. Seems just the monitor itself uses 20% CPU power. I can't see why it's this inefficient. Windows was 10x faster. It takes 3 seconds to open the terminal when you do the ctrl alt T thing....

Well fedora and the monitor seemed to have a fight with frequency. I put ubuntu 12.04 on it and now it all works. But, it's the slowest thing I've ever seen. I don't know what's up with it. I can't figure out where "task manager" is to see what is lagging behind. I did get the networking thing to halfway work, I can see all the files on my 7 computer but I can't see anything about the ubuntu computer from 7. Ubuntu had the drivers for my antique printer somehow. I just cant get it to share anything with 7.

Alright so I downloaded the Fedora 17 KDE Spin from here it's the 32 bit one. I burnt the ISO to a bootable disc (CDBurnerXP is awesome BTW) and stuck it in and turned the thing on. It just said start fedora 17 so I hit ok. It is now on fedora but running on the cd no doubt since nothing actually installed. Here is where I'm at http://i48.tinypic.com/2u90nly.jpg I left it like that so it would be full size since this scales it down.. So I think I just hit the "Install to Hard Drive" shortcut (the only shortcut on the screen). However, that hard drive still has XP on it and being I have no clue how to mess with the thing I don't know if I can format that hard drive now (on the Live cd running thing) or if it will somehow do it during the installation. I will be on chat on here from 2pm on today.. If you 2 want to join in the festivities. There will be chili and hot dogs.

I'll try and attack it a little tomorrow, taking pics of every screen that shows up. I really am lost as to what it is asking.

I have an old POS laser printer and a new inkjet and currently I have both connected to a POS computer to be used as a print/file server. The laser is parallel port and I don't have one on this new beast so I was kinda forced.. I can't even load a driver for it so I can just print from my windows 7 computer because windows 7 is too new. So I easily use remote desktop and manage with ease. But, that computer is a 2ghz celeron with 1gb memory.. It's a dog. And it is just doing the BSOD every 5 seconds ever since it installed some .NET framework update. Along with some other issues.I like fedora and figured I would throw it on there. But, I have no idea how to get it on there (obviously from last times ordeal) and I have no idea how to share the printer/files/remote share all of it onto a windows 7 computer. Is it even possible?

I don't know what does it. I have spent dozens of hours pondering it, testing some ponderations...hell with it lol. Theoretically the governor should be giving it max fuel until it starts which should make it start just the same way it starts when you press the pedal. I never asked anyone if changing the governor springs ever fixed it. My idle is set so low that maybe it just isn't giving it the fuel it needs to get going. So you give it a blip and then it is running a lot hotter from the explosions and is able to run off the miniscule amount of fuel to idle at 700.

Press the pedal down until it gets to that hard spot (only takes like 1/2") and let off when it starts. I bet it will start instantaneously. Common issue, some do it, some don't, nobody knows why.

I have found a lot of books so I gotta go in and check them out but I found another PDF on the differences between ULSD (they call it BP15) and biodiesel of different vegetable oil ratios. This one is very interesting as most of the test was on a 235HP 24V. It's not the newer common rail, it says its standard HP is 235 and the CR's started at 305 so it's a VP44 engine they are testing and the shots inside the combustion chamber were on the cummins as well, so 828945.pdf

Same here I am taking everything they got. They have an aerospace minor which deals with all the other "-dynamics" and I don't want to miss anything. I am just in gen eds for now. Never had calculus so I have to get all that taken care of.

Yes the wastegate "gate" hits the housing after it opens. It doesn't open much before it hits it..