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On the "blend door", the indexing pin had broken off the arm that the motor connects to. The 3rd gens recalibrate for every start up...........so if the indexing pin is broken (cheap plastic) it has nothing to limit it when it tries to index past the stops. For example.................with the heat all the way turned up (warmest)...............if I turned it down a bump at a time, nothing changed in the temp of the air coming out. It wasn't until that the dial had been turned all the way down to the coolest would the temp change....................and then it would be the coldest all at once. There was little if any middle ground with the temp dial control. The "recirculation" door, the plastic part that connected the door to the motor was broke, so I only had fresh air setting. Both work perfectly now!!! Duck butter............the oil you get from the gland that ducks/waterfowl use to oil their feathers with when they preen. Slicker than snot!!!!

Did you chop a couple cylinders out of that gasser??!!

10-4. I actually misread you prior post. Sorry...............My speedreading skills are eroding!!

I filled MightyWhitey up with 32.xxx gallons of diesel at $3.49/gallon this evening at about 6:00PM!!Most of the "other" stations around me are $3.69-3.95/gallon.

You's guys ever read the short story, "To Build a Fire", by Jack London????Coldest I've experienced is -33*F actual air temp.

I used "duck butter".

So what's the "count down" to the tear down??? Take lots of pix.

Hopefully Mopar1073Man won't punch his mother in the nose the next time MoparMom tries to make him eat his Lima beans!!!

Well, I finally got around to changing out 2 of the doors on my truck this afternoon. I replaced the "recirculation" door and the "blend" door. I didn't replace the "mode" doors, as they still function................the mode doors direct the air to the panel, floor, etc. Not difficult; just a pain in the dupa. Tight spaces and trying to find all the screws that hold the dash panels in place..........arrrggg:duh:Well it all went back together without any leftover parts.................took her for a test drive to test everything..............and shazam, I now have fine adjustment for temperature and I can again tell when switching into recirculation mode.Both doors took about 3 hours total. As I said tight spaces.............that and big hands made it more difficult than it might have been for someone with smaller mitts.

Sent!!

-20 in KY...........................Where????........................The BS-O-Meter is almost pegged!!! -20 with wind chill....................but straight air temp.................mucho doubtage here.

Any idea if'n it's related to the internal engine mods you've done???? Turbo, cam etc.??

There are companies that make engine "blankets". These essentially isolate the engine compartment from the outside air. Sorry, no info though.

The USA has multiple armpits................Chicago, IL.......LosAngeles, CA............New York, NY............Washington, DC..............Philadelphia, PA.............Detroit, MI.................etc. Feel free to add any if you so choose.Living where I do, I'd surely consider Grand Forks an "oasis" from the daily crap I deal with!!!

I wanna see the rest of the video!!!!

BJ, wasn't meaning to type like an asshat, seeing as you took it that way.Read me out here before going off again....................I still think it "may" be a piston design issue. Maybe they don't wish to produce injectors that large due to the "blow-torch" effect that the narrower spray angle makes on the top of the ALUMINIUM pistons. The '04.5-'07's are the ones prone to piston failure/melting..........correct??? Don't you believe that could be due to the piston design??? Coupling the increased injector size with the timing and duration available to us by the electronic boxes (Smarty, etc,) with that piston design; IMHO, is a recipe for disaster for the CF types that mod trucks indiscriminately due to poor info and/or ignorance.Maybe they "choose" not to build injectors in that size purposely and just say it's QC. It's a cheap insurance policy for them not having to answer for melting pistons etc.

8 days ago, I was an hour South of you (Fargo on I-94) as I drove home from my annual hunting trip to NoDak. As I type this now, I'm about 11 hours SE of you!!

I've got the GDP 2micron secondary FF kit installed on my '04.5; along with the 7micron Fleetguard in the OEM canister. There's a post here with pix of my set up.AH64IUD is the filter guru here.

IIRC, the NV5600 weighs in about 350lbs. dry.............no clutch, fluid and flywheel

To good not to share this!!

Amsoil MTF here.

Don't forget the blinker fluid and muffler bearings. You're in Florida, so you'll be fine with the summer air in your tires.

Here it is............October 14, and I've not lit the stove yet!! Twas gone all last week, and all that happened here was that the grass grew 5 inches!!! Just got done mowing. I thought I was done with that the week before last!!Gotta line on 2 downed trees though. Probably about 2 full cords worth. Gonna cut them up once the weather gets cold..............I hate sweating!!

I would say again............to answer both of your questions............that it's due to piston design. AH64ID is more better to answer these questions than I am!!!

That; I believe, is due to the piston design.