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http://forum.mopar1973man.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5979&d=1374979248 Body: 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Quad Cab Long Bed SLT Laramie Sport Grille Sport Headlights Brite Box Mod Engine/Drivetrain: 5.9L I-6 Cummins 24 Valve Trans47REATS Stage 2 stall 5 star converterRPM~1400 5" exhaust with resonator TST Comp & Smarty High Idle Switch Custom fabbed (hacked) air inlet/ bhaf filter mount Industrial Injection Phatshaft 62/70/12 7x.095 125HP SAC injectors FASS HD pump/fuel filtration system Airlift Airbags Mechman 180A alternator and primary electrical cables Single Piece aluminum driveshaft from Driveshaft Specalist Inc. Dana 80 rear end... Dana 70U died an ugly death Exterior: Patriot Blue / Silver + lots of oxidation Factory heated power mirrors Factory Fog Lamps Wheels: 4th Gen (2012) Ram Aluminum 17" wheels Interior: Factory dark grey leather power seats Pioneer head unit ISSPRO Fuel Px, EGT, Boost, & Trans Temp gauges

Sucks... but hey, you are getting a new VP out of the deal. I am not sure many guys would actually follow through on a new pump. Plus, you learned who is not trustworthy with your equipment.

I am leaning toward the center section of the clutch broke out... Since that might take the pressure plate load off the pedal. We will see what he says when he pulls the trans.

All, Friend of mine called and said during a 4-3 downshift while decellerating, he heard a snapping sound and his RPM surged as he let off the clutch pedal. Now the clutch isn't engaging, and it appears that the linkage to the fork is intact. The pedal has no slack, and the truck will not transfer any power from the engine to the wheels in any gear. I am on a job and can't get eyes on the problem, but appeal for your experience. Any ideas?

Congrats on the wedding!

I have as well. I have a brand new Edge Juice w CTS monitor sitting in a box that Edge wants 300 to fix.

If you don't have a box to fool or eliminate the computers overboost condition, ie: Edge, Smarty, etc. your engine will defuel at higher boost and then throw a code. At least you should be running quite cool. A used smarty would be the easiest and possibly cheaper option for you, at around $450.I know you said you had a plug, but it must not be working properly... You could just call the manufacturer and be like WTF!Also, fill your signature out please with your truck info... That helps when troubleshooting.

I can't seem to find just the clutch at any of the local auto parts stores.Where might I find one of these things guys?

Probably some Iranian cabbie from Chicago... But dang! http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/ctd/3122242326.html ​http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ctd/3120324243.html

Why can't it? For the same reason we can't tackle Social Security and Welfare. Its the political third rail that nobody wants to tackle. For quality... The same problem exists in socialized medicine. The difference there, is that everybodys mom who can't afford 100% private care gets the lowest bidder Chinese heart valve. I would also argue that commercialized medicine fights poor quality service pretty well. Some of my family has had quite a bit of health problems, and they have found that the competition in hospitals is fierce for their business. At least their local hospitals keep pretty tight standards on a lot of things, (can't say how they are nationally...) as their margins are very dependent on their reputation. A smear campaign would really really mess up their business. Plus, doctors tend to not want to kill their patients and will try their best to use the best... I don't see that happening with a mandated G.I. scaupel, heart valve, knee, etc thats good enough to pass whatever standard the regulating agency comes up with. As for what people have, yeah, people are poor stewards. If they earned that money, tis their money, I don't deserve any of it. They are the ones that will have to answer to what they did with their lives, resources, and abilities. A lot of people have said that my truck is a useless waste of money as are my other interests, and that money could be better spent elsewhere if we all drove a Prius. How about this John... Legal Reform. Tort Reform? So that the excessive cost of malpractice is reduced, and the cost of malpractice is the loss of ones ability to work or some other penalty? As it is, the doctors lose, but so do we and the insurance companies aren't evil either... They are just covering the doctor's butts financially as the docs want/need as the docs have families and mortgages too. How about some cleaning up of how health care is billed out? I've been to the ER... and I can tell you, its amazing how much a few stitches and stuff can cost! And there are more than one charge depending on if you are insured and if you arent, and who you are insured by... Double charging individuals and insurance companies are rampant. All I am asking for here is a little honesty in pricing and billing... not too much to ask I think. This would lower costs for insurance on both sides (doc and patient) and make things a bit more even on the hospitals side. - - - Updated - - - Dobie... Paragraphs? Sorry. It hurts my eyes.

Welcome!

John, Never said you were naive, please don't take that this way. I would like to keep this as a friendly discussion, as this is a truck forum, and I would not want to ruin that, as you are a smart guy and I like learning from you and bouncing ideas off you. I spent quite a bit of time reading your old transmission posts! Let someone else drive... Yeah, its fair to say I am not an Obama fan and that is based mainly on things other than his namesake healthcare legislation. I am not a raging Bush fan or PaulBot either. Also, Thanks to your dad for his service. I am not advocating war as a solution, unfortunately, many times it's been the chosen option... However, the global economy, politics, and military maneuvering are all very much linked. Still, to compare the war to Obama Care is somewhat off topic, though they are both a lot of dollars. I feel that I can support the troops, and even support our strong global presence, without contradicting my stance on Obama Care. The problem with free healthcare, and free stuff though... Is that it isn't free. Someone is going to pay for it. Most of us that work and make enough to support our families pay for much of it, our retirements, stocks, and profits will pay for it, and our progeny will pay for it. I have little to no confidence in the skills of the US Government to implement my healthcare. They have shown in the past that they have very little ability to administrate much without it becoming a bureaucratic nightmare that soaks in inefficiency and waste. As I said, the health care system in the US needs reform, but Obama Care isn't it. Its like social security. It can't be funded. It is broken. What money there is left is mostly borrowed from other areas, or supplied in deficit spending. Unfortunately, its been a scam that we've all been sold on. And the fact is that the money that we all have paid in has been spent. I don't relish the fights when we actually have to pay the piper on that one, and I don't want to see another great social program further bankrupt our nation. And as far as helping others, yes, I agree. I am not a greedy guy. I work hard and try to put myself in a position to do well, I am not one to sacrifice all and others for material gain. At the moment I have been pretty well blessed financially. That may change next year though depending on what happens. I like helping others, and believe I am called to do so. Back to my above point though, I don't feel that the government has done a good job in their efforts to build a Great Society... In the end, I feel we were better off in the days prior, in terms of the economy and the "war on poverty." Free healthcare, as administrated and as designed in the Obama Care bill, is just another big spending and tax bill that really isn't going to help us as a whole, and will really bite me over my lifetime. So in my answer to your question, we can't have FREE healthcare. We could have affordable and fair healthcare. But, unfortunately, we aren't going down the road of either.

Me neither... I only have VP trucks. But from a general standpoint, less compression means slower burn rate and slightly less efficiency.

Less compression, same fuel and boost = slower burn rate than stock compression. Therefore it may need a different advance curve.

My thoughts... I am not pro war. But I am pro military. I feel that the military has given much to us, technologically, economically, and has really been a big deal for many many men and women who have served. I tend to see a high success rate in .mil folks, they tend to have professional character qualities that make them very desirable and valuable people. I don't like the wars, and how they have been handled, but I will say that they have been successful in some ways. The war is significant, but not really within the same scope as the Obama Care legislation. "War for oil..." Well, sure. We need oil. Oil or die really. GW1 was over oil. Without oil, the world goes into world war fighting over it. We've gone to war over energy for pretty much ever. Again John, how its been implemented is a different thing altogether, but we go to war over natural resources, philosophy, and in the end, its supposedly in the defense of our lives and way of life. Comparing this to health care, at least we are getting a pretty big influence in the worlds biggest oil producing region. That influence should not be discounted. Russia would LOVE to have that influence, which is why it courts Iran so much. I am very opposed to how we have implemented our "social assistance" programs here in the U.S. We have turned them into entitlement programs, that far too many people live off of because they can. This is my main root beef with the legislation. Our healthcare system needed fixed, and still does. The bottom line is that we cannot afford the system that the Obama Administration and Congress designed to roll on over the next few years. Its execution and design is horrible and not sustainable. The new taxes won't cover the costs, and I do not feel like paying more taxes for others health care. Food stamps, welfare states, socialism, it isn't working in the way we have implemented it here in the USA. Socialized medicine works in our military. Socialized medicine seems to work well in Canada. But we are doing medicine wrong here. I am not opposed to helping people. I don't want to come off as cold and uncaring for the poor. I do not want to see people go hungry and just be thrown to the wolves in the cold. We are just doing it wrong with this legislation. Life isn't easy. The government can't bail us out of everything. And we just can't afford all of this.

Well then, It may be many things... But the biggest portion for those of us who are in the workforce means Obama Care is a tax. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/05/five-major-obamacare-taxes-that-will-hit-your-wallet-in-2013/

I did a little reading, and it looks like some of the marine pistons had a lower compression ratio, and lower compression height. I can see where an extreme race motor might make use of the lower compression by upping boost significantly, but its probably not great for a regular motor. What I don't understand... mabe ISX will find something... Is what is it about the marine engines that made Cummins put these in? Are they running some really high boost at sea level with these old motors or what the induction setup is. If I were to guess, they are probably running a large very laggy turbo and the power band on the engine may be a bit "peaky."

Yikes.

Good lookin truck John.

I have as well, but I think I have an advantage since I am 20min from their shop, and they won't charge for installs. They also pretty much said as long as I don't disconnnect my cooler lines and drive it they will cover any breakage in the trans except for shafts. The rest of the trans shops in Colorado kinda suck... most either don't want to work on a non stock trans, or they say things that just don't make sense in terms of modifications and "how the valve body works."

Goerend will nicely tell you to get bent. They sell parts only at the moment, and there is a wait list on that. Unfortunately for us, they are a victim of their own success. I am going to give ATS a try, since I live in Denver.

Think of the weight savings! The rotational mass gains must have been killer... (i kid) :D

Well, if you go that route... Please take video. On a more serious note, I did some looking at this a while back. Some of the new pellet guns are pretty darn fast, and a friend of mine with a squirrel problem in TX has been eliminating them with a beeman .177 and .22 pump pellet guns with headshots at 25 yards.

Conibear trap if you can find one nearby... Once upon a time I liked them for muskrats. Or, get your class three and get a can. :spend:But then, by the time the ATF got your permits done and you get your stamps... You will be overrun with woodchucks!