Doubletrouble

Ok, thank you. I'll try to check it later. We have a storm coming in now, 50mph winds gusting to 70mph and a line of strong storms

Interesting....... I now want to check my ac noise again. Refresh memory please, the DVM gets hooked to the charge lead from alt to engine ground correct? It's been minute since I did this, I searched but couldn't locate it.

If someone really want to be a garage building monster I will donate the land in which to build it on. I have plenty or room in my yard for one. I need to be the garage cleaning monster you mention. Mine is a disaster right now. To much stuff in there. I need to move the riding mowers to the pole barn for the winter so I have some room to work on things. Haven't been able to get much done the past 4 days, been home from work with a torn meniscus, trying to nurse that back to health to return to work. I have an uncle now in the hospital with covid so now I am concerned about him as well. And today my youngest son (30 yrs old) is getting married. Been laid up but still have things going on everywhere. Geesh

Once the engine is running I thought I read somewhere that the grids alternate back and forth between the two? I could be wrong or what I read was incorrect.

I forgot to report back but so far, after 1 night sitting at work she seemed to fire up just fine. Grid heaters are hooked up again and the new breaker has not tripped once yet. So far so good.

Doing some concrete work @dripley?

I certainly hope you get things figured out @JAG1, getting old isn't for sissies. It's a painful process. All the fun and dumb things we did when we were young come back to haunt us.

Just a bit of my personal experience, for sore muscles I use tiger balm. That stuff is amazing.

I bet they are mike. I have the same issues minus the lift (wish I had one). I seem to be the family machanic, whenever something's breaks I'm the first call. Went to the hospital, diagnosis so far is a torn meniscus in my right knee. Ugh

Prayer sent. I feel your pain. I to have lately been dealing with a wicked pain in my right knee. I also visit a chiropractor regularly to keep the sciatica in check the best I can. Pain like that really puts a person down. I'll be heading to the hospital myself here shortly to have my knee checked out. Getting to where I can't work. Get well JAG1, prayers.

I have mine in front of the battery box on the driver's side. It's cool out now so heat at first shouldn't be an issue. Maybe after she warms up good. I'll report back after tonight.

When I first start the truck I tend to wait until the batteries recover (looking at the volt meter) before I turn on any extra electrical load. I hoping maybe the breaker I had was faulty to a point. I'll see if this new one is up to the task. It's 49° here now and a low of 33° tonight so the grids will come on and I'll monitor it closely. Prior to the ground mod I never had the oem 140 breaker blow at all.

I finally received my breaker. No idea what took so long. I ordered the one hdpwipmonkey linked to. Installed today. We will see what happens.

Not to hi-jck but how does the factory high idle work. It's supposed to get down in the 30's tonight so I'd like to pay attention to see if mine is enabled.

I'm curious about this factory ecm high idle as well. I don't think mine does this either.

******UPDATE****** So, it's been a little while but I finally got the time to stop by my buddy's shop and have him plug in his snap-on scanner to see what's going on. It showed 2 codes in the abs system 1. Revs per mile to high 2. Tone wheel tooth count off Wording may be slightly off but that's what they said in a nut shell. Problem was the tire size was entered wrong. Once that was corrected the light was out. After driving the truck that afternoon I noticed the speedo was off by 6mph at 60mph (speedo showed 66mph at 60). I called him and we deduced that the gear ratio is also entered incorrectly. He noticed it showed a 3.92 gear. He didn't think much of it since his ram 1500 is the same ratio. I told him it's a 3.55 gear, he confirmed it with the vin number. So I'll be going back soon to get that setting changed and the problem should be solved. Just wanted to update for anyone having this issue now or in the future.

@Mopar1973Man, that was an excellent explanation of timing and it's effects on a diesel engine. Can you possibly put that in the articles section or something so we could access it easily? I will definitely be re-reading it and taking notes! It really cleared up alot for me. I come from mainly gassers and my mindset was much different in thoughts of timing. Much appreciated!

What is the cooling system capacity? I think I saw somewhere 6 gallons? I didn't flush the while system and change that stat at the time of heater core install because I was laid off at the time, money was tight. I'll get a new T-stat and the required amount of coolant and do a flush here very soon.

That ain't good. I'll have to try changing the T-stat and flushing things out good first before replace a brand new heater core.

@Mopar1973Man, judging by the description is a thermostat in order? Would flushing at this point help the heater output? The heater core is new so should be flowing just fine.

Always something isn't it. Lol

I agree the cooling systems are very good in these trucks. There is alot of heat from the Cummins to keep under control. I just figured I would get better heat from the heater with all the heat generated by the engine. It hasn't been cold enough ( at least I didn't think so) to have to put cardboard in somewhere yet.

I'll post this here but I believe this could all lead to the thermostat. Anyway, not long ago I replaced the heater core and evap. Removed hvac, cleaned, inspected the foam seals and reinstalled. Now that it's getting cooler outside I'm noticing that it's not putting out the expected heat. I read the heater output write up in the articles section and checked for the movement of the blend door motor, checked to see if the heater hoses were hot indicating flow of coolant, blower motor is functioning as it should. All good. I have noticed though that when I come to a stop light or if I'm sitting still much more than about 30-45 seconds the engine begins to cool down per that gauge. Like from just above 190° to below 190° (again, on the factory gauge). Temp output at the floor vent is good while fan is on low but cools down considerably when moved to 3 or on high. I fear that when I really does get cold around here I will not have enough heat output to warm the cab. When the outside temp was in the 60's the heat output seemed to be in spec with the article. I'm thinking thermostat, any other things I should check out? The first two pics are going down the road, engine at temp, outside temp was about 45° I think. Next pic is sitting at a red light, notice the drop in engine temp. I've been google searching this issue, I've read that it might be possible to have air trapped in the heater core. Anyone heard of this? Is there a certain way to bleed it out?

When I did my heater core not long ago it was to bad to remove the HVAC unit from the truck. I also replaced the a/c evaporator core as well so I had to remove it. Took about an extra hour to remove it from where you were.