tunklo

hahahahahaha!!! believe me even for us down here at Mexico sometimes jalapeno is to much!!! but not that much!!!!!!!!!! that's a good laugh, that story just made my day!!!!!hahahahaha

Hi guys long time no see, hope everyone's having a good time, well mine is kind of different, i have 18 psi at idle,16 at highway and 14 or 13 psi at wot, when the tank is at a 1/4 of the capacity and i floor it, it falls all the way down to 8 or 6 psi, thats why i never let it get that empty, the tank has 32 gallons of capacity, since i found this cummins brotherhood i've using 2 cycle oil, running on a raptor 150, with the 1/2 pipelines, and a drawstraw (thanks to guinnessbrewer) and from everything that i've read here, i think my vp44 is covered.

well i had some time ago a chat with the michelin general manager for latinamerican operations (it includes mexico, brasil, argentina, and a lot of latin american countries) and he told me that in their test grounds they always inflates the tires to a maximum of 90% of what the manufacturer recomends, it means that if your tire says 80psi you can inflate them at 72 or 70 psi, that would give a 10% of heating inflation (at least where i live in the summer is always 98*, 100* or a little more:mad: ) when i travel as soon as i get where im going (usually 3 or 4 hours of higway) i check mi tire pressure and it reads around 5 more psi than the begining of the trip. This is what usually happens when a tire is used without the proper care, like never cheking if they're inflated correctly, it's just happened to me last week when i was testing the raptor on the highway, i was running 70 and cheking the truck at WOT, when i stop to check from 0 to 60 mph (well 80 mph:lol:) when my truck hit 70 miles, the tire thread hit my fender, door and front bumper, those tires were given to me by my big brother, he used them in a tow truck and he told me that he never check the tire pressure. So please check your tire pressure and any weird mark that your tire have on the side wall.

I know it's not good, but it happen to me too, like a month ago i went to where my inlaws live (like 235 miles from home) and i never shut off the truck until i got there, went to a party, came back like 8 hours after and my truck didnt not want to start, (at first i believe it was the vp44) we prime the low pressure line (i didn't know that you could prime high pressure lines) and nothing, ran out of battery, i borrow a pair from another truck (i know you never should use starting fluid by any circumstance and i dont recommend it) open the fuel filter box and let it smell some starting fluid and vouila ITS ALIVE, i dont know what happen but it's the first time that does it. Not even when i put my raptor 150 had any trouble sarting my truck, i only prime low pressure lines and it work.

Here in Mexico we only have one brand (PEMEX- Mexican Petroleum) it's a goverment owned refinery, and i'm pretty sure that the diesel that i'm using it's only diesel (maybe something else to make more volume of it, and i dont know what is it), but my truck runs fine, it's not ULSD, because my cousin has a 09 f350 power stroke (i dont know what motor is, it has double turbo) and he always fill up the tank at el paso, tx, because the dealership guy told him that he would damage his motor if he uses mexican diesel.

I would love to see 20 on my truck, i drive daily around 50 miles, it's 15 on city and 10 on highway (one way), i've never seen that kind of mileage on my truck:cry:, i'm getting 13 sometimes 14 miles per galon:broke:, running at 65 or 70 miles on highway empty, but i think that my driving manners it's why i'm not getting good mileage (even using 2 cycle oil i got only .5 miles per galon more) i'm gonna have to go and get me some diesel truck driving lessons:lol:

My truck is runing again (it was runing like 6 hours ago but friends and stuff you know) , i only need to make some adjusments to the fuel pressure ans that'S it.Again thank's a lot, you really amazed me Mike!!!!!!!!!!

HHEEYY guys!!!!!!!!!!! sorry for being for not posting in a long time, but please i'm installing my new new raptor 150 (following all the good advice that you guys gave me) but i have a problem i dont know where to drill the hole for the suction tube, i just saw a video, but it was a 3rd gen and its not the same fuel tank:banghead:, Help me please.Once again thank you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Joshua I'm, from mexico, fell free to ask any cuestion that you've got, believe me this guys know what theyre talking about.The community is getting bigger soon the world will be ours (sorry for that i was watching He man and the masters of the universe!! cartoons and i felt like Skelletor jejejejeje) i'm to old for cartoons jejeje:ahhh:

You guys really surprised me everytime, this is something that ive been looking out since i bought my truck, thank guys you are really a Dodge cummins guru:thumb1:

I really need to go to chihuahua i live in juarez (235 miles from point a to point b) believe me im taking your advice and my older brother is looking for a lift pump, thanks for the advice, can anyone tell me where can i find DAP, to ask him about a lift pump? Thanks again guys

ok guys i just installed the vulcan performance kit from the filter to the vp44, and installed the fuel pressure gauge, that`s why im felling down, i have only 8 psi at idle:cry:, at wot i didnt have the guts to try it:banghead:, and i really dont know for how long it has been this way, so i need to go to a place that is 240 miles from here (its gonna be 500 miles getting there and coming back and i really need to go), im using the walmart 2 cycle oil (it helped me a lot, my vp44 it,s a lot quieter and i gain like .5 mpg on the city) do you think its gonna make it worst, its an empty trip, and rigth now im ordering my raptor 150.Im not using my gasser cause someone try to steal it and could not make it, they broke the back window mecanism, and its like 105 degrees n the desert, and my A/C does not work with an open window jejeje:ahhh:Thank you guys for all your help, sincerely Tunklo (Ivan).

01 3500 24v cummins 4x4 dually 206,450

And that's all, my truck has straigth exhaust, so you can barely notice the whistle on the inside of the truck.

jajajaja that's really funny, i hope i could say that to my wife when she gets mad at me because it's monday 3 a m and im still working on my suzuki samurai,jajajajaja:lmao:

What's a WOT?

Hi guys, well i just installed Timbo's apps on my turck, and what a diference, my tranny shift so smooth that you can barely feel between one gear and another, i don't have any mpg results yet but ill publish it next weekend. Another mod was to take off the turbo silencer, and now it has a beautiful whistle, let's see how it works, cause im still broke jajajaja:broke: Thanks a lot, see you guys.

3 weeks ago in el paso texas was from 3.79 to 4.039, and across the border in Juarez, Mexico 9.52 pesos a liter, that like 3.20 a gallon.

Sorry guys i have been absent, but i'm on nightshift, i work 12 hours straight, so when i get home i only have time to sleep, well like i told you im gonna keep you posted on my trucks problems, on monday i ordered timbo's apps, fuel pressure gauge and the line that goes from the filter to the injection pump (1/2 ID). As soon as i installed everything, ill tell guys if there's any news (i'm sure that i've got to get me a raptor 150 but well see)Thanks a lot guys:)

Thanks, ill check that out before i bought anything. --- Update to the previous post... Thanks a lot guinnes brewer, ill send you my adress on a pm, and you can tell how to pay the shiping.

its a beauty, i want it , but i cant have it:broke:

ok no instructions and no myths, im ready lmao, it looks like thats my problem, (bad vp44 or low pressure) so could this be a good fuel pump AirDog Raptor 100 GPH High Performance Fuel Pump with Built-In Adjustable Regulator Preset at 15-17 PSI for 1998.5-2002 Dodge 5.9L Cummins with In-Tank Fuel Pump, part number PFTR2SBD355,(for about 365 dlls) i didnt know how to upload an image thats why i only post the specifications.:banghead: this is the link http://www.parleysdieselperformance.com/products/airdog-raptor-100-gph-high-performance-fuel-pump-with-built-in-adjustable-regulator-preset-at-15-17-psi-for-1998-dot-5-2002-dodge-5-dot-9l-cummins-with-in-tank-fuel-pump Thanks again for all your help guys.

thank's for the message, believe me i feel vry welcome by all of you guys, i just check the pump and as you said is an intank pump, it only sounds for a couple of seconds, so i'm gonna order next week my fuel presuure gauge. Thanks for the info.... --- Update to the previous post... I just did the apps reset, but nothing happen, still have the same code, next week im getting timbo's apps and a fuel presurre gauge, it's there an specific fuel pressure gauge that you guys can recommend (i don't care about the looks, i only care about the perfomance and cost). Thanks A lot more bad news for me guys, it drop from 14 to 12 mpg on the city. --- Update to the previous post... yep it's a vp44 my little brother use to work in a cummins manufaturer, he's the one that assure me it was the vp44, and my cousin (he is the one that sold me the truck) said that he change the fuel pump from atruck that had only 80 k on it. --- Update to the previous post... Hi dave, can you tell (just in case that i need it) were can i get the air dog raptor? Thanks

Thank you guys for the replies, ok first of all i'm gonna reset the apps and check the fuel pressure, i'll keep you posted with the results. As you can see in my signature, i don't have any mods in mi truck, and i'm trying to discover what kind of fuel pump my truck has, so if you guys have some information on how to know what kind of fuel pump i have, it would be big help. Thanks for the help and the tolerance guys, i'm new in this diesel world. --- Update to the previous post... Hi flagmanruss, i got those codes with a code reader (only the 122), and i'm gonna check the fuel pressure and try to discover what kind of fuel pump my truck has, as soon as i get those results (fuel pressure and fuel pump) i'll let you guys know. Thank you

Hello everyone, im new in this diesel world, as well on this forum, im having trouble with my 01 3500 dodge 24 valves cummins 4x4 dually, im getting only 14 mpg on highway, the only error codes that im getting is the 122 (apps low voltage), could the apps be the reason of mi really low mpg's?, cause im getting a timbo's apps next week.Thank you guysGreetings from Mexico