Doubletrouble

Just pickin @JAG1. Glad to see W-T still pops in from time to time and insightful as always.

Awww @Tractorman and @W-T have secrets!

Thanks to all that have helped! I finally got her fired up and running. W-T, that was a great testing scenario! Unfortunately I did not read this until after I was finished. BTW- I do have the lift pump on a relay to avoid pulling the amps required through the ecm. To sum it up, I got her to build pressure so fired her up. The fuel pressure would slowly tapped off to near 0, I shut it down. Reprimed with a key cycle and restarted. Did this about 4 times and she started holding enough pressure to safely idle, around 10psi. As it idled things began to warm up and the fuel pressure was rising as well. Once fully warmed the fuel pressure was back to 18psi at idle. If I would rap on it she did not drop below 15psi. I let her idle in the driveway for a good 45 minutes to an hour before a test drive around the block (about 4 miles) then let her idle some more while putting tools away. I believe there may have been some gel or icing somewhere in the lines or pump. At this point there should be plenty of treatment in the tank to avoid a repeat. I poured 64 Oz. Of power service 911 red bottle in there to begin the thawing process. Then 32oz of the white bottle power service to prevent gelling. Should be plenty! So this is my Christmas miracle I suppose. Thank you all again for your ideas and advise. I greatly appreciate it!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I would love to! Wish ya'll weren't so far away, it would be a great time I think. Today I'm going to open a fuel line in a spot or two to see if I have flow. What concerns me is I'm not showing any fuel pressure at the test port on the vp. Also going to check for power to the pump to be sure she's getting juice. May have to line up a couple tables for a wind break and ppint the salamander under there also. We have family coming over today so my truck time will be limited. Just drives me crazy knowing she's out there but won't start. Don't know why but it irritates my soil. Lol

@wil440, yes the grids are working fine. I was messing with it yesterday and got it to shiw fuel pressure so I would bump the starter and just let the pump run for 20 seconds to try and bleed it through hoping to pull the now treated fuel through the lift pump. It was showing pressure at the test port on the vp44. Then I tried to start it. She fired and ran for about 30 seconds and died again, list fuel pressure. I'm hoping this didnt simehow take out the lift pump. Its a raptor 150 and has less than 10k miles on it. I'll mess with it more today, the outside temp is a bit better. It's 12°F now. Yesterday it was still in the low single digits. Also had the battery charger on it all night at 6amps, maybe that'll help. I don't know. In all my years of truck driving this is the first time I've had anything freeze up in the fuel line like this.

I haven't heard from Mike. A heat gun might be a better option. Be easier to control where the heat goes that way. If I can get her fired up and stay running to warm everything I have some fuel treatment to prevent it from happening again.

The filter housing and LP are in the stock locations. I belive the small factory line from the tank to the LP could be the issue. I may have gotten a little air in the filter housing when I removed the top but minimal. I'm gonna go back out and try to get some heat under the truck with a salamander heater to warm the lines. It still windy so I don't know how that'll work.

So, weather sucks. It's like 4°F here with wind chills of -25. Truck won't start. I though it was gelled up. Poured power service in the tank, went to pour some in the filter housing and the fuel in there is fine. I reinstalled the filter top. Still no start. Put a fuel pressure test gauge on it and no fuel pressure. truck was plugged in, ran fine before thos cold weather, plenty of fuel pressure before also. Is it possible the lift pump froze?

Glad your genny fired up for you @Andyba20. Luckily I haven't had to fire mine yet. The snow has stopped but the wind is still a big issue. That to is supposed to slow down some by tomorrow. As present the temp is -1 and wind chills are around -25 to -30.

There is a multi vehicle multi-accident pile up on the ohio turnpike near Sandusky, Ohio. I've heard it spans nearly 6 miles. Turnpike is shut in both directions. These were sent to me by a friend, he got them from Twitter. He has heard that there could be as many as 100 vehicles involved. We shall see, I know how things get exaggerated. Hopefully no fatalities.

Well, it's Thursday evening, 6pm. The rain has started, it's expected to change o er to snow sometime overnight. Tomorrow we are expecting more snow, total they say will only be in the area of 5 inches. The winds will pick up though, gusting to 65mph which will set us up for blizzard like conditions. Luckily, the wife and I finished our preparations for Christmas today. We are now home waiting for this storm to do what it does. The cummins is plugged in for the night, I have gasoline for the tractors and generator if needed, plenty of food and water. Time to sit back and see what mother nature has in her bag of tricks. For some reason this reply didn't post. I hit the button to post this morning. Here we are Friday morning. What a difference. Rain began changing to snow around 11pm. This is current weather conditions.

@IBMobile, there should be one some where out there. There are plenty of snowflakes in Cali.

Well, it's Thursday evening, 6pm. The rain has started, it's expected to change o er to snow sometime overnight. Tomorrow we are expecting more snow, total they say will only be in the area of 5 inches. The winds will pick up though, gusting to 65mph which will set us up for blizzard like conditions. Luckily, the wife and I finished our preparations for Christmas today. We are now home waiting for this storm to do what it does. The cummins is plugged in for the night, I have gasoline for the tractors and generator if needed, plenty of food and water. Time to sit back and see what mother nature has in her bag of tricks.

I wouldn't think it would be necessary. Unless mayne you were in some extreme cold.

I think it's pretty cool. I sit on the fence between original vintage restorations and modern restoration. That one seem to me a nice mix of both, very well done and clean.

Here in ohio they have issued winter storm watches. Saying we could see Blizzard conditions Friday. I'm going to work a short day on Wednesday and take Thursday and Friday off I think. I need to get gas for the tractors and generator, fix my daughter's car and get wifey to the store. Then we should be good

Won't catch my bike out in that weather.

Not to down grade Cali but I think I'd rather deal with the snow. Lol

I have to get outside today and put the back blade on the tractor for any bigger snow. Also have to get the old wheel horse out of the pole barn for the snowblower. That works well as long as you don't overload it. Need to get some weight in the truck bed as well. It's hard to weigh down a 1 ton dually for winter driving. I have several RR ties, I'm going to put 1 layer of them between the wheel wells to see how many fit.im thinking 4-5, they're 8 footers so they weigh in around 150lbs or so a piece. That'll be 600-750lbs, hopefully that will be enough. If not, I'll dump snow on top if them. Lol Another thing on the list will be to bring out my heavy extension cord for the block heater. I generally don't need it but it's nice in the morning to fire up the truck and have a little heat right away. Plus it keeps the grid heaters from pounding the alternator and batteries so much.

Me and the wife will discuss something and next thing you know it's showing up in her Facebook feed as an ad for the very same item or topic. I know they listen.

Glad to see it's dropping in some places. Here around toledo ohio it's still hanging in the $5.50 area

Any updates on this engine swap? Just curious if you were able to find a good engine, ballpark price for said engine and if work has begun.

I agree with @Me78569, I would say stick with the HX35 and you should be able to tune out any smoke or whatnot with the adrenaline. I don't have a tuner on mine yet but have read a lot about the adrenaline, @Mopar1973Man should be able to comment on that with more insight than myself.

So to condense this, my oldest daughter and her boyfriend had one of their cars breakdown on them. A Honda pilot, supposedly had a bad transmission. I couldn't get there to look at it before the BF made the decision to sell the car leaving them with only one. It's getting cold, they both work and have 2 kids in the home as well. My daughter was stressed about how they're going to make this work. I immediately jumped online and found them a 2007 dodge grand caravan with reasonable miles, nice interior but a had a little rust. Went to check it out and ended up bringing it home for her. We invited them over Thursday evening for dinner and suprized her with it. Christmas came a little early for her but now I know she has a safe vehicle to drive and haul the kids around in. It's a great feeling when you help someone out, I'm not sharing this story to brag in any way, I just feel good about it and wanted to share.