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Wheres your base camp? You passed through my neck of the woods already. Sandpoint...

You do not measure it in ohms. You measure it in voltage. Apply heat to the thermocouple, you will watch the DMM show an increase in voltage as it gets hotter. So, if I take a battery and hook the leads up to it, I can watch the gauge. Whatever the voltage is on the battery, will correspond to what the temp. would be on the gauge. The key though, is to know whether or not the gauge is displaying the right temp. for that amount of voltage. I wish I had a potentiometer... Wonder of radioshack has one...

True. But, I atleast know it will go above 800. I'm gonna have to hook a battery up to the gauge. Dig up my other thread and compare numbers...

Alright, so I took a torch to the probe. I hit it for a little bit and it went over 800. Did not act funny or anything so, I suppose it is working just fine...I drove the truck after purging the fuel line to gauge to see how much better it would perform. I think that when my turbo really kicks in at higher boost, it just does not allow the egt's to rise more than 800.Dripley, you oughtta have someone watch your gauge as you hit it with the torch and see how it reacts.

Yea! That was witty.Although, people make it a complicated matter and tend to screw up the simplicity of it.You have to look at like a mind of a child...

Right, I just replaced my thermocouple. I DO NOT have an amplifier for my gauge. It is a Dipricol.I'm wondering if I was lugging my engine and when it hit 800 thats when the engine caught up and the auto decided it was not worth downshifting but just let it accel.

The longer I hang around at the fire dept. the more and more I seem to adopt their ideas of things...Frequent washing down of the apparatus' is key.

Before you excuse your vp44 as the problem, you need to remedy the biggest problem on these trucks. The lift pump. You need to invest in getting yourself an airdog or fass. Even if the problem is not fuel related, you still need to get one as in time your VP WILL die from the lack of performance of the OEM lift pump. - - - Updated - - - ALSO, disconnect your quadzilla and run the truck in stock form. Make sure that even though the quad may be turned off, it is still disconnected. Egde chips still interfere with the truck even though they are off, so its just a good precaution to take with your quadzilla. See how if it runs good after you D'C it. - - - Updated - - - Read through this: http://articles.mopar1973man.com/2nd-generation-24v-dodge-cummins/26-engine-systems/95-map-manifold-atmosphere-pressure-sensor-error-codes

You should not forsake the fact that there is another side to this site. There are many useful articles on here for common problems. One of them, being the starter. http://articles.mopar1973man.com/2nd-generation-24v-dodge-cummins/26-engine-systems/123-starter-operation-and-specs http://articles.mopar1973man.com/2nd-generation-24v-dodge-cummins/26-engine-systems/124-starter-contact-replacement Hope that helps.

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P0237 (M) Map Sensor Voltage Too Low MAP sensor voltage input below the minimum acceptable voltage. P1488 Auxiliary 5 Volt Supply Output Too Low - Auxiliary 5 volt sensor feed is sensed to be below anacceptable limit. P1488 5 Volt Supply Voltage Low - Sensor supply voltage for ECM sensors is too low.

Alright, so with what I'm runnin' on my truck, I noticed something particular. Running at highway speed, I approach a grade. I keep on the throttle and EGT will go up as it should. Except, the temp on the gauge goes from 600 or so, climbs to 800, stops. It struck me as a little weird that it would just stop like that. Especially considering the fact I was pretty much about 2/3 the way up the grade.I got into the throttle more to see if I could make it climb more, but at this point, I had the turbo spooled up and the load decreased into relation of the grade and speed I gained.I coulda swore I could get the egt's to shoot higher. They have before... :think:Just trying to make sure my gauge is not broke or something.

How many means of egrees does this little critter have? I would try and limit the amount of exits he has and leave him with only 2-3.Get some live traps and bait them. Block the exits with them so it only leaves him with one exit that he can use to walk out with. Camp at that exit and wait. Shoot him if he reveals himself, or relocate if trapped.Find out what they like to eat, learn their habits and preferences. If they like to burrow and like dark places, cove the traps with tarps, etc. Make it an irresistable haven for him. He will come!

HEY! Good to see you back on here Moparmom! I totally agree with you on this subject. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to look up and see the signs. There are too many people that wanna be in their bubble and go on thinking things are going to always be hunky dory. There is too much reliance on the govt. to come in and save the day. When disaster strikes, thats when people react. They do not prepare before hand as they should. No one did anything to prepare before Rome burnt down. It was not until it happened that action was taken. The funny kind of creatures we are! My paranoia has sometimes gotten the better of me. Perhaps it has not always been a bad thing either. I'm glad to be able stay sober-minded most of the time and not forget what will and can come to pass. I would rather not let it come upon me like a snare. Being that our location is a somewhat semi-rural, we do not necessarily have to deal with much here. Hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, earthquakes are all rare occurrences. Flooding, wildfires, snowstorms are the more common. Flooding has not happened on a large-scale. Just local flooding. It can create problems, but usually nothing of the emergency type of nature. Wildfires have never been close enough here to warrant an evac. Does not mean it can't happen. Snowstorms would be the biggest one. We can get some good blizzards here and the power can go out. Typically does not stay off longer than a couple hours. Being able to drive in the snow is a little different. Have not been dumped on these past few years to cause much of a problem. Although, our city has changed their policy on how plowing will be conducted. Due to the lack of finances, they won't plow until it stops snowing! Some of the above mentioned could become bad enough to warrant a displacement. As I stand now though, I believe I have an adequate enough supply of gear to make it possible to wait it out. The biggest one I have been trying to prepare for is the civil unrest. Yea, I have enough guns and ammo to shake a stick at and ward off any "zombie apocalypse". The problem with the unrest is combating the enforcement of any executive orders that take effect during these said times... I have been doing my best to secure my assets as you would say. I have actually developed a plan of action to take and prioritized our finances to allow for it to be carried out. A good site I have referenced is: SurvivalCache I'm finally starting to reach through to my parents who have been somewhat on the fence about things. Its difficult for them to swallow what could come to pass and they do not like the idea of losing their little world. I have always been the type of person people would love to put me into the conspiracy theorist category, but dangit, when the day comes and things need to be done, they are gonna regret not preparing for something and they come running to me...

E-mailed an engineer on the issue. Asked about I-beam size for 5ton capacity at 10 a foot span. Guess I'll see what he says. Got a quote on an I-beam at those dimensions in a 12". 35lbs. a foot and it came out to like $340.Not bad, considering the harbor freight gantry crane offered is $700 and can only handle 1ton. Dunno what the 12" I-beam I got a quote on can handle, but I bet it could handle more...Sounds like I could get a pretty decent one made up for cheaper...

I seriously wish that the filter was serviceable instead of having to replace the whole line. Not that the line is overly expensive, but its just one of those things to me that should have been looked into a little more...

Alright, its been a while, where is the, "mom"?

I'll keep my eyes open for her! *Looks off into the horizon*

Thats strange. I had one of these on my truck too. Only ONE. I don't remember if it was passenger side or driver. I have not had any issue with my truck such as rubbing tires or anything. I dunno what is for. Maybe it was to compensate for steering? I will have to ask the auto guy when I get my A/C charged and see if he knows..

I can tell you how to test your gauge and thermocouple. But if you have a box in between, that is over my head. Read through this and you can get an idea on how to test them. http://forum.mopar1973man.com/threads/5834-Just-can-t-seem-to-get-a-break

On a side note, where is Moparmom? She needs to chime in so she can set this thread on course, lol.

This is a double-edged sword we are riding on here. We need to understand both sides before we can get an idea of what is really going on. Firstly, people of my generation, we have one side that has gone to college to make something of themselves. They get out of college hoping to use these skills they have put so much time into learning. They are in debt before they are even able to rent a car. Job placement is very low as the economy is just not sustaining to allow a new workforce to enter. They now owe on this debt, that they cannot even begin to pay on since they put most of their time into college. The jobs, if they had it, were back in college town, not back at home with their parents where they are now staying. Secondly, we have people of my generation on the other side that did not go to college. Some of them thought about it differently and did not want college because of whatever reason. My reason was the burden of debt. Some look at it think its for suckers, or just don't want to handle the stress, etc. Some of them are even ones that did not continue on to do better and just slacked off and now they have slumped into an even worse position than before they graduated high school. Both parties, are now in the same playing field. They both are stuck having to clambor for the same position. Neither of them are going to possess the skills that will put one another above the other. The degree the graduate got means nothing to this new job they are fighting to get. Unless the exception is made that they went to college and the other did not. It means nothing now, to go to college once again and pursue education in the field they are trying to be employed in. We are not only seeing this with people in my generation, but older people as well. My auto body teacher in high school lost his job as a teacher when the economy was tanking. His brother and him had a family business on the side, so he was able to fall back on that. Now, they both run a military surplus type of general store. This is his full time job. Granted it does not allow him to buy the t-bone steaks every week like he was once used to having, but he is still making a living. Although, he stated that he is in the same position just as I was then. The playing field has evened out. My generation has been stunted. The majority are not living on their own any longer. We are having to go back home to our parents to stay afloat for a few different reasons: 1. College grad, no money, needs to find work, but no work to be had. 2. Notorious victim of lay-offs, cannot stay afloat with limited income. 3. Not enough with the existing work to even pay bills. Needs to risk pool. 4. Just plain lazy, does not care, moocher. Now, I have been on unemployment longe than I have ever wanted. There is an aspect to being on unemployment for those who get it. This also comes into play for those said people who are living with family, friends. Their is a deep psychological that takes place. When you add up all the doom and gloom the world is spitting out, coupled with the unsuccessful job placement and the stress of having to be a provider, you lose hope. Despite having unemployment, knowing that it is not enough and you are only going to have it so long, or for those who do not get it, but others have agreed to give them a free ride, complacency kicks in. Let these people go on for a few months, they get used to it and become comfortable with it. The idea that if you go to manual labor, you will not make enough to make a living anymore. That is somewhat true. I have done nothing but the manual labor for my work history. I have been on both sides of the field in the manual labor and can say that in the areas where you have to be skilled in something, it will pay higher. In the areas such as the manufacturing, it definitely pays less! But overall, I disagree that manual labor is OUT. If everyone goes into a field requiring to be a desk/office man or paper pusher of some sort, there will be an offset. The demand for manual labor will increase and become more "high-profile." This construction job I will be getting placed on, will be the highest paying I have seen. SO much so, that I will actually be able to afford to allow the wife to NOT have to work. Will she do that? Probably not, as I'm sure she will go nuts... As for the rich not allowing the poor to become a little wealthier to get by better, I would have to say its all isolated. I agree that there are companies out there that will just bend the little guy over and then toss them out. They play the numbers game instead of looking at them with a name. But I WILL NOT place the blame on the 1% like the occupy wall streeters. Wealth does not come out of thin air, and neither does it come from out govt. It comes from people who have worked harder, thought smarter, acted smarter. They were able to play the game of capitalism and become what they are be where they are. Now, we gotta remember what capitalism does. Without the drive/motivation for more money, these people are not going to push themselves or think of other ideas to make more money. This by-product of their actions and thoughts are our jobs. Because of these, we become employed, because they need help to make these things become so. Without the wealthy our jobs would not exist. Poor people cannot employ poor people. Now, I will step onto my soap box and go out on a limb here and state some things that I think are our root cause of the problem. I will start by saying that I neither like Obama nor Bush. The presidents are nothing but puppets anyways. I sincerely feel that their is an "agenda" to be followed and orchestrated carefully and timely to play it out right. This, I feel is just the product of that agenda. We are feeling the affects of those things that are being carried out. Everyday, we are seeing the govt. grab hold of private sector and taking control of free enterprise and strangling out capitalism. This country is designed to run with LITTLE govt. interferance. The free market is suppose to run the show. But as we have all seen, the more that uncle sam dips his hand into it, the more it becomes a nusiance and a problem. Regulating what can and cannot be done doing and saying who and what can do this and that. There is no more freedom within the free market. Suddenly, people have to start playing by a more restrictive set of rules. They can no longer be as innovative as they once were. If they cross those lines, they may have to pay fees, penalties, etc. So what do they do then? They either have to make cut backs to preserve their business entity, or they go somewhere else where the restrictions do not exist so they can once again become what they strived for. Now, there are other factors that are influencing this displacement. Our govt. is being ran by tyrants! We are seeing bad policies being made, and terrible decisions being carried out. We are allowing these people to run this country into the ground. They are not in the best interest of the American people. They racking up debt on our country so badly, that we are eventually going to go head over heels. We eventually are going to be told by our lenders that they will no longer support the dollar. Our goods that we produce will eventually be offset by the debt. Our GDP will no longer stave off the inevitable. When these TYRANTS, use the only option they deemed they had, to quell this disaster, we saw the backlash it produced. If you keep printing money, money that CANNOT be backed, such as a physical commodity like GOLD, you are essentially putting that chewing gum of yours over a leaking crack in the wall of a dam. It WILL NOT HOLD. Some day, that patchwork of gum you put up to seal the crack will give way and the dam will flood everything downstream. The product of printing this money is INFLATION. One day, we are going to see that gum give way and the flood is going to be so great, that there will be no stopping it. That day will be described as HYPER-inflation. This will be the time where our country comes to GRINDING HALT. Everything will STOP. Suddenly, your dollar has become so worthless, that turning it into toilet paper or kindling for a fire is all that it will be worth for. It will be more worse than the great depression. Unfortunately, IMHO, there is NO TURNING BACK. We as a country have accrued so much DEBT, that will are not going to ever even pay off our INTEREST! We are on the downhill side of things right now. The best any of our leaders could ever do is hit the brakes every once and a while to slow the descent down a bit. Then brake fade sets in and there is no more slowing down... I know this is probably something that was not originally intended to be discussed on this thread, but really, this is where it is heading. This is something that is hard to swallow for all. But I feel it is necessary to be said. There are too many people in these days that willfully look the other way and say, "NO, thats a LIE!" One day, we are going to know the truth, whether we like it or not...

Hahaha, would'nt that be something!Yea, I know what your sayin'. It seems like things are improving a bit, but what gets me is that they are still talking about how unemployment numbers are staying steady and that the reason why fuel prices are going down like they are is because we are heading into another recession...Really? Huh...

Do you have to pay to get the Linux OS?Would I have any conflicts running Linux on my computer? Such as hardware compatibility?

So, I take it nobody has ever built a gantry crane? No one on here is an engineer? Nothing?