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I found when we built the engine in my bride's dually that the gasket kit from Cummins was the most expensive part. ($1,000-ish iirc) the bearings and hard parts were super reasonable. If you have mechanical ability, I would recommend building it yourself. They are basic and stout.

I ran a torktek pressure regulator for a couple years, I found that it bled off too much volume and I was loosing top end fuel pressure because of it. I located a stock one and did the "bic-pen-mod" to up the pressure. It runs way better. It pulls hard all the way through to the governor now. I run a modified factory lift pump on mine. It is modified similar to what PDD sells as their hotrod lift pump. In response to the original poster, the 12 valves don't really have any problems. Killer Dowell Pin is about it. More power is pretty dang easy as was already stated. You can double the power for now much of an investment.

I just saw a kit for this somewhere.....was it here? or was it on LarryBs?

I have the He351cw on my Fummins, spool up is way quicker do to the tight turbine housing. If you adjust the wastegate they really run good between 38-50psi boost. However, longevity is reduced when you push them hard in the 50 psi range. I try to keep mine around 45 psi. I'm running around 425 hp. It is great upgrade for the price.

That thing is pretty sweet! Great job so far. The fresh painted components are purdy. I'd save lots of budget for sound dampening having that noisy 12 valve under the floor. I put 3 layers of fat mat on my firewall in my Fummins. It is much quieter, but is still loud compared to my bride's dually. Granted I'm running lots of timing and its got over 500,000 miles on it.

I looked it up after I posted..... I haven't had this problem, thankfully.

What is this heater treater blend door upgrade?

Love it! Great looking Ol' Ford!

The fan in my bride's dually was blowing lazily, so we swapped a couple different used ones into it to see if that would help. No improvement. I finally bought a new fan motor for it and that fixed it. Now it blows like how I remember them blowing when these pickups were new.

I run the Sealed Dana Spicers in all of my rigs. My Bride's dually had 250,000 miles on it before it needed ujoints anywhere. I figured that was impressive considering how hard we push that truck. When I tore them apart to replace them they were still tight with maybe one dry cap per joint. I never got that kind of mileage out of greasable joints. Maybe 50,000 tops. I used to grease my rigs every oil change and crawl around them checking them over. I simply don't have the time to now. I have since swapped my Fummins over to the Sealed Dana Spicer 1410s, all 6 of the driveshaft joints and the front axle joints.

Mine is out the back, I've not seen one the other way except for the one on here.

Hey Mike, if I order the diodes from here do they come from you directly or from a supplier? I need to tackle these things at the end of this week. My bride is wanting to have her dually fixed and working correctly.

We will be praying for you also.

Thank you Mike! Here’s my Fummins and another pic of both our rigs bringing wood in this fall.

My name is Scott, I have a problem...... I am addicted to my 2 Cummins trucks.... I have a ‘71 F250 that I swapped a ‘94 Cummins and 47rh into and I love it. My bride has a ‘96 3500 47re that I have a love/hate relationship with. When the Diodes aren’t fried in the alternator and it shifts correctly I love it. I just finished deleting the CAD axle shaft and put locking hubs on it.