Doubletrouble

I'll leave them unhooked for now, I will get them replaced before long but leave them.unhooked until the weather requires them again. No sense in straining the batteries if not needed.

Since unhooked this morning no issues, no warning lights either.

Unhooked the power cable going to the grid heaters this morning and no problem. Breaker did not pop. Would it be a good idea to clean the terminals on the relays or should I just replace them? Also, it should be fine to leave them unhooked for now since the temps are up?

Thanks. I'll take a look in the morning.

@Mopar1973Man Is there a way I can test this? Where is it located? I don't want the breaker tripping Everytime I cold start the truck. The weather isn't real cold here lately but I guess it's cool enough for it to call for the grid heaters to come on.

I'm going to try to figure out why the break popped in the morning. Maybe the grids are pulling to much? Not sure if they were cycling when it tripped but I don't know what else could do it.

Got back to the house, shut it down and reset the breaker. Restarted, breaker popped again after a few minutes of idling. Reset while running and was fine for a 15 minute trip. Don't understand it.

I finished the ground mod. Not as bad as I thought it would be other than having big hands in small places. Ran the B+ alt through a 150amp breaker to the pass side battery. Separated all the ground splices in the front of the engine just like in the thread. I checked my AC noise before I began (engine still cold, grids not cycling) and had .038-.040. when finished well......see the pic below. Went for a short drive and the 150amp breaker popped. Not sure why

I am going to at least begin this mod today. I just received my 150amp breaker yesterday from Amazon, I'll still need to pick up an online fuse holder for the pcm as well. I do have a couple of quick questions. 1. What size fuse for the PCM? I read both 7.5amp and 5amp. 2. I read that the ac noise would affect cruise control somehow on a manual truck. I haven't used my cruise much, just wondering how it affects this? Any other things it could mess with? I will take ac noise readings before and after to see how this works out and report back when finished.

@Dieselfuture PB blaster is the stuff! We have plenty of rusty farm equipment sitting around. Some thing only get used once a year but ya have to have it so the PB comes in handy often. I didn't know that seafoam would stabilize gasoline for storage. If so I'll have to put some in my generator. I'm out of stabil anyway, was planning on buying some but I have seafoam on hand.

Don't want to hi-jack this thread but for those of us with no quad, is there a way to get high idle from the cruise control like in a semi truck or would we have to go with the high idle switch set up in the forum store?

I was curious on the opinions here on the use of seafoam to flush the oil system before an oil change. I have used the product before on gas engines with decent results. With a diesel engine being a more "dirty" engine and reading about possible valve and lifter bores becoming varnished with burnt oil on top of not knowing the exact history of my engine I was considering dumping a can in the motor oil and letting it do its thing to clean the oil system. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Been reading this thread, just curious for those of you that have done this, how much time are we looking at to pull the dash, replace/clean the heater core and the evap? Looks like a big job to me but I suppose once your into it may not be as bad as it looks? This is something I've planned in in the future to keep HVAC system working properly and to replace the dash. My hope is that the refrigerant leak I have is external so I can hold off on this for another year. Then dive in.

I tried fabreeze directly into the blower. I don't have any disinfectant on hand and can't seem to find any at the stores for some reason I hoping it will eventually dissapate on its own. Once I can get some disinfectant I will try that as well.

Lol, right!

Yes, not a good thing. All cleaned out now. Heater works great but has an odor, imagine that. I tried fabreeze into the blower fan. Helped for a minute, smelled like fabreeze and mouse turds. Lol

It was a mess for sure. I managed to get it cleaned up. Surprisingly everything works as it should once I lubed the cables and door hinges.

Just thought I would share what I'm doing with this old girl. We bought this to use as a grain truck/dump truck around the farm. It was cheap and it works so it fit the bill. Yesterday I was trying to get the heater working. I found exactly what I expected. The heater box and blower was converted to a mouse condo. The blower motor works when tested out of the truck. I believe the switch may be bad, or a wiring issue. It had no power when in the truck. I removed it to inspect and found the mouse house. Then removed the entire heater box from under the hood to find even more. I'm now in the process of cleaning this all out and replacing heater hoses since they were brittle and broke when moved out of the way. I will be replacing the hoses today and cleaning things up a little more then on to the heater controls in the cab. The switch lever for the fan seems to be froze up. Then test the switch itself. I'd like to get heat going for the fall harvest this year. Also need to haul some stone in for the driveway.

We had a weekend in July set aside for camping. Waiting to see if it's still gonna happen. Campgrounds around here are all closed at the moment. Also had a trip planned to Florida for the past week. That got cancelled. I'm not upset about it just yet. I believe there is something to this virus, I know I don't want to get it so I've stayed away from people as much as I can. I'd rather error on the safe side. I know not everyone feels the same on this and that's fine, don't want to start a debate on the legitimacy of all this. I think we can all agree that it will be nice when things get back to "normal".

Or, get in the freezer and stay there, for the ice cream of course.

Now she needs a bandana that goes from her eye lids up and over, then maybe some dark sunglasses.

My kids are already asking who I am leaving what to when I'm gone. The biggest items of interest are my farm, my trucks, my Harley and my guns. I keep telling them I'm leaving it all to my 5 year old grandson. Lmao I'm hoping I have many years left to enjoy the stuff myself. I'm not even 50 yet.

Thanks, I was just curious. I haven't ruled out a tuner forever. It's just not in the budget anytime soon for sure. I'd like to get gauges, new injectors, big line kit ( tank to VP) just not sure where to start to be honest. It's a good chunk of change just for those mods.

@Mopar1973Man, would those tunes yield the same results on my truck? I don't have a tuner but am asking out of curiosity. Being I have a dually I don't think I will ever get the high mpg's that some do anyway. Also, we've established that my injectors are original with over 140k on them. I've been noticing a slight "hickup" while idling, would this be due to the injectors as well?

Smoke is just a waste if fuel and energy. Inefficient burn and loss of potential.