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My Blinkers work just fine..... I spotted Dolly Parton while on the freeway the other day.

I am really glad you made it thru that. And I hope you get treated right from the insurance.

We use the oem for target practice, never seem to miss when one gets set up at the range.

I hope that I never said anything wrong @PilotHouse2500 to make you want to stop posting. I am very sorry if I did. My wife says that I am always guilty of saying the wrong things, have been beaten with strong words many times and deserved it.

@Blueox01Do you mean you were towing the 6500 lb Cat and were you okay? Scary for sure.

Doesn't @dripley teach electronics at that school ?

Sometimes these things are the best lessons in life. Something about getting a boat out on the water.... makes a guy want to get it going a soon as he can, but I found quite often around boating you have to go thru all the right protocol, even if it seems redundant, and not short cut or take anything for granted. It seems boats were sometimes not my best friend when a small problem became a huge pile of trouble. I do hope you and your kids have a great time and your foot heals well. We have a lot of great memories with our kids on the water in between the ones we wish we could forget.

Dang! I am so glad you are okay. I was afraid you were going to say that you got caught inside the truck and your truck went in the lake. I think that door did you a good deed.

Brings back memories... thank you. Got a ride in one from southern British Columbia to Northern Cali in 73 going all along the coast. It was a cool machine. Today they cost a lot here in the states.

Also please mention to dripley the direction you turn to loosen it. I believe it loosens the same direction as the motor turns.

Your welcome Dripley... I'm still a big FAN of chickens for target practice...

As long as there is no wobble with the engine running, fan spinning, I would go till the weekend. I would keep an eye on it though any time I stop making sure it spins true and is not loose.

Pretty cool that you had a big hand in helping someone in very remote situation. You were a God send. One thing important is having an effective fire extinguisher. Although being able to correctly judge whether or not the vehicle on fire is about to have it's fuel tank explode....however if the fire is small and in the early stage, that fire extinguisher will come in very handy.

Love to get over there and do some detecting. That would be just tops. About those trucks... I really like them being so useful/ utilitarian. Built to last and perhaps much more reliable without all the technological aspects. I like that. So easy to work on the engine too, the way the cab tilts out of the way. They have something similar here called the NPR trucks with a Mitsubishi diesel but, the environmental protection agency mandated less particulates and the exhaust manifolds are cracking with some other issues showing up in the low miles range. I thought about and looked for an older one since they typically go many miles trouble free but, lost interest when I found my 2001 dodge Ram with all options and all original. One other consideration was the talk about an increase in the number of lethal crashes when sitting so far forward. My interest sort of melted away. I even had a cab tilted forward to see how easy they were to work on. It's amazing for certain... just a piece of cake.... as we say here in the states! It be so cool if our second gen dodges hood and fenders tilted forward. They be sitting on a gold mine. MoparMan we need a kit you could sell us for that Sorry to get off topic I very rarely do....

With all that ancient history around, you better get a metal detector . What if you loose and important nut , screw or bolt . You'd be up a creek without a way to find it BTW, nothing more reliable than a 2nd gen Cummins.

I drove long distances going camping/ traveling Knowing I had the 0216 error code. Heavy doses of 2 cycle. Carried the rebuilt VP44 from Vulcan in the RV and all the tools the whole time. One trip on the way home, finally started getting hard starts. Not bad but enough to notice longer starts. Next morning I made it home, and later drove it from western Oregon to 'Mopies Auto shop', (what I call it from the early days) and Moparman did a great job changing it out. His mom was the center of entertainment in those days around there, she was the coolest of all moms I ever met. Problem now though, everytime I go there to visit, they hog tie me up in the woodshed till they are done working on a truck.

Mopar Man rules say: as long as it about beer it not hijacked.

I think it's easy for our small alternators to be mildly overloaded and so with enough time will deteriorate to the point of an internal short. Just google forum talk about hot Alt's on our Dodge Cummins and you will see an inordinate amount of 'very hot' alternator discussions. It's uncanny how many and are numerous. Dieselfuture cools his with beer.

Huh!? you have to spell it letter by letter for me to understand

Next time please leave that cam you used on me.... you know the one that squirts elephant pea! Also can you post up this criminal's face? I think all of us here would like to post it a bazillion times all over the net. That would be great.

It was nice meeting you for a short moment on the phone too . Want to remember your name now but a lot was going on that day.

Was her car broken into while on your property? I hope not.

If I'm not mistaken .06 is a fail. Needs to be less than .05. I think you said your batteries are new so no excessive load there from a shorted cell. A good test: With the B+ charge wire disconnected from the passenger battery, place a rag under so it won't accidentally fall back on the positive post. If I remember correctly there should be no continuity between the alternator housing and the B+ terminal on the back of the ALT., if there is, alternator has an internal short. Just for the sake of saving the OHM meter you should disconnect both batteries as an OHM meter gets destroyed if any voltage goes thru it. Only other issue would be something is causing a heavy amperage load on the Alt. and causing it to overheat.

I think the Alt's are so marginal in these trucks, relatively cheaply built inside with the real rating somewhere around half depending on age, temperature and condition. When they start getting warm their rating diminishes placing them on a road to deterioration with more overloading. developing heat, a purely destructive cycle. I cannot find any reasons for my two experiences with smokin hot ALT's. Nothing to cause this full sink. I did see the B+ charge wire in line fuse bolt holding the lug terminal glowing like a light bulb is why WT told me it was a full sink to ground. After changing the ALT again, there has been no problem now for about 6 mos. It would be wise to install better Alternators even tho many seem to do just fine for some reason. To answer your question.... no, my WTS light was fine both times afterward. I did tear apart the grid heater relays and found nothing faulty except some small burn/ melt marks in the contacts. If it was the contacts failing to open, stuck together there were no significant tell tale signs with major burn marks.

It has happened to me twice now on the same truck about a year apart. The Alt got smokin' hot both times. Looked everywhere for a full sink to ground short and cannot find one anywhere. I think these rebuilt Alt's are doing that if they are overloaded and the overload is caused by something in the rebuild that has marginal workmanship or marginal parts. There is no way for me to know for certain of this, but seems to happen when I turned on both seat heaters after using the grid heaters. First time was a shorted cell in one battery and that was my fault. I think these ALT's are marginal in some respect. May not be what they are rated for.