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From what I saw with John's truck the VP has no issues when you are driving, but when you turn it off the pump gets up to 50F hotter than ambient. I think it even got to 60F over also. It remained hot for hours.. Because it is aluminum, it easily takes the heat from the block so as long as the block is hot, the VP remains hot too.I think that is why people get in their trucks and they are messed up, because the VP heated up and the solders melted. Now Mike had a valid point that electronics that are off can stand much higher temps, but I still don't know about the solder.

Here is what wiki says, which still shows the chinook as being slow. I like to think wikipedia is right but someone with first hand experience will always dominate anything wikipedia says, to me anyways. I wonder where they got their stats though. Apache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah64#Specifications_.28AH-64A.2FD.29 Never exceed speed: 197 knots (227 mph, 365 km/h) Maximum speed: 158 knots (182 mph, 293 km/h) Cruise speed: 143 knots (165 mph, 265 km/h) Chinook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CH-47_Chinook Maximum speed: 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h) Cruise speed: 130 kt (137 mph, 220 km/h) Black Hawk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-60_Black_Hawk Never exceed speed: 193 knots (222 mph, 357 km/h) Maximum speed: 159 kn (183 mph, 295 km/h) Cruise speed: 150 kn (173 mph, 278 km/h)

Now that is awesome! This thing was only like 500ft up or lower so it was going slow for a reason I am sure. I didn't have any idea about the speeds of them all, other than wikipedia which tells a different story than you, but I know how wikipedia is

http://mopar.mopar1973man.com/cummins/general/winter-fronts/winter-front.htm

Overall as in length and width? I could believe that. The blackhawk just looks like it has a lot of room for the crew while the apache just sacrifices it for weapons. Seemed a lot slower than the apache too.

Kinda the fancier way of doing what I did. I like yours better What psi do you have it opening at?

Yeah it was a blackhawk. I just looked it up and yeah that's identical. Those things are a lot bigger than the apache

I've been working in Little Rock, Arkansas for a few weeks and there is an air force base just north of where we are and I watched planes/jets/helicopters all day. I went to their website and traced down what I was seeing. The main thing I saw was C-130J aircraft flying in a line of up to 4. I saw a couple banking hard and there was a little brownish looking smoke trail behind each prop. That was really neat. The next thing I saw flying all around really loud was some little fighter jet. It looked a lot smaller than any of the ones on their site so not sure on that one. Think it was one of these thunderbirds. I then watched a helicopter flying really low and just doing donuts everywhere. No pics of helicopters on their site but from the list of air force aircraft but I think it was one of these UH-1 Iroquios. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-1_Iroquois

I have Perfect Dark on nintendo 64 that I play once in a great while. Best game ever

It uses I think the front 3 cylinders, it doesn't switch them. The injectors cease to fire on the last 3. It really doesn't wear anything more than the others I wouldn't think, I mean all 6 pistons are still moving. The fact that the front 3 have to drive the back 3 is actually why it helps heat the engine up.

This one is pretty well held to the floor all day long. Not sure why it hasn't blown up yet other than being a cummins. How exactly do you turn the high idle on using the cruise? Do you just turn the cruise on and hit accel while you are idling? I don't know if it has the flash for it or not but I would know if I knew what to do to make it idle up.

You can't monitor EGT's digitally unless you have a probe. I saw a stock CR at a shop with melted pistons so I would say the EGT is very important on the CR's even though they may be stock.

I didn't know the windshield wiper issue was common. Interesting. Forgot about the rail having to pressurize, makes sense. Ignition is probably from him beating it to death, just wondered if it was something common. Thanks Dorkweed.

Our service truck is a 2007 CR automatic and there are several issues I am wondering if anyone else has ran into. It has 150k. Completely stock.First is the windshield wipers. When on the slowest setting, they will wipe one, then again with time in between like normal, then it will wipe twice without stopping, then it will act normal for 3 wipes or so, then it will wipe 3 times in a row or 2 in a row. Not sure what the issue is with that.The ignition now thinks the key is still in it when you take the key out as all the dings are still going along with whatever light stays on, on the instrument panel when the key is in the ignition. It takes a long time to start, like 2 full seconds. Is that normal? Sometimes it takes 3 seconds. Just curious on all this, not really an issue of mine but I am wondering why it does all those things.

I was going to make the radar an active desktop thing, but of course they canned that option on vista/7 :banghead: I found some things to do it but it's not working right.

I found this the other day and as if it wasn't neat enough I just figured out it auto updates. As in I left it up all night and woke up and the storm was way east and I never even hit refresh. It is animated and just keeps adding an image to the end every 15 min or something. I thought it was really neat. http://www.fullscreenradar.com/

Ran it up to 80-90F, no issues Mine won't heat up for nothing.

Yeah that's out of the question. My phone doesn't have "apps" Mine is a free phone.. So junk. But it showed the site identical to what my laptop shows, so I thought that was pretty neat.

Vets are awesome, they are some of the friendliest people out there and have so many stories to tell. I do think they need to be given more than the rose or whatever they get at the ceremonies. I watched too many shows on WW2 and the way they had to do things was just incredible. There was one show I watched of a group of specialists like the navy seals of today I guess, anyways they had to crawl for I think 100 yards under barbwire right in front of armed guards everywhere. A few of their airplanes flew over to shoot at the guards while the men crawled and eventually got through undetected, killed the guards, and freed the 700 or something innocent prisoners. I can't remember what they were called, some indian name that I think started with a P. But yeah, they are great

I got bored yesterday and since I work under 5 bar 3G service all the time I decided why not. I am amazed at how identical this site is on my crappy phone. I have no idea about this tapatalk thing. I wasn't able to sign in though so I couldn't do anything. I just wanted to see all the new posts though.

You couldn't wait a damn month could you! :banghead: --- Update to the previous post... Ok guess it don't matter this time

http://forum.mopar1973man.com/showthread.php/853-Ok-how-old-are-you?highlight=poll Theres what the results were last time.

Duramax's have 2 as an option also. I do the "build and price" thing on the big 3's website and remember seeing it.

Since it is on the ambulances I am going to guess they put two on just in case one goes out they will have another. Won't be good if their one 220A alternator goes out on the way to a life or death scene.

The chart is like a mountain pertaining to speed and mpg. Too slow and you aren't getting anywhere and just running the engine uses more fuel than the distance you travel. Like at 1 mph, your not going to be getting any kind of mileage. You will have to burn an hours worth of fuel basically idling and will have only gone 1 mile. Too fast and you are going over a lot of distance but it just ends up taking so much power to go that fast that it ends up using a ton of fuel. It would be like driving a billboard through the wind, sure you can go 100mph and get very far in very short of time, but it takes a lot of fuel to push a billboard at 100mph.. Those 2 examples are very drastic but they get the point across. Now the factors that also come into play that you have to set up for mileage are: [*]Axle Ratio [*]O/D Ratio [*]Tire Size [*]Vehicle Weight [*]Aerodynamics All of those factors are different on every vehicle. They can be pretty close but I doubt everyone has the same tire and the same wear on all of them. Engine have different wear patterns that can affect their efficiency at different RPM's. Like if one engine has more advanced timing than the next, then the more advanced engine will be more efficient higher up in the RPM. It is a fine art to hone each factor in for perfection and it takes a lot of skill. The biggest problem is getting everything perfected for the variety of speeds we face. Trains have figured this out with the generator/diesel set up. Electric motors do not have "rated RPM's", if they say 50HP they can produce it at any RPM given enough power. The diesels can run constantly at their most efficient RPM with nothing but the fuel rate changing to keep it at that RPM. Everything efficient is at a set speed. Now you see why it is so hard to get our trucks to be efficient. We aren't on rails, we are on roads full of changing speeds. It is possible to keep this efficiency constant with all of the variable drive transmissions (like in the nissan altimas, I think) but obviously they are only on low power engines thus far. Another issue is load. There is a reason trains don't go 1000 miles with just the engine car by itself, but that is exactly what we are doing when we are not pulling a trailer. We have a huge engine pulling a tiny load and the engine itself is using more power just to turn itself that doesn't need to be used. At 70mph we could get by just fine with a stock 4BT. Now there is our need for speed or acceleration. Need I say how trains accelerate.. They don't have 100000000000000HP engines to get the 1000 cars to 70mph in 6 seconds. It might be needed for that 6 seconds, but after that you have a huge engine that is nothing but dead weight. When you pull a trailer, your efficiency goes way up. Look at per pound pulled per drop of fuel and it will be more efficient. You have to get the engine to work hard and that is when it is very efficient. If you have unused HP then you need a smaller engine. It's interesting how most new semi trucks WITH 80k lbs can get the same mileage as an older pickup truck that is unloaded. Have you seen how they accelerate? That's what I thought. If 14L can pull 80k efficiently, then that means there is 5714 lbs per liter. If you think that is BS then put a 4BT in your truck, leave it stock, leave your truck unloaded, put an 18 speed in your truck (designed for the power, so it would be a lot smaller than the semi trans) and now see what you get for mileage. It might be slow but I have my doubts, I think it would accelerate faster than a semi. To get down to semi speeds, I would throw a 2.5 or 3 liter into my truck and then it would be slow but efficient. I know some people think this is also BS, but you won't be trying to accelerate to 60 in 6 seconds, you will slowly get up there, on hills you will downshift and let the truck slow up the hill and speed down the other side without trying to hold 80mph the entire time. If you can get out of that "I gotta get to 60mph quickly!" mindset, your mileage will skyrocket. I take a mile to get to 65 when I hit the highway to go to town..