Texas CTD

Built the first fall 2014 fire last night. It got down in the 30's, and it was nice and toasty inside.

Geno's Garage has Fleetguard filters... FYI.

Pretty much any male animal can put off an odor, especially this time a year... Sounds like a cool place though.

$500 for a timing box!? Dang... The TS does the same thing as the Smarty, and boasts of a bigger HP gain, so you probably won't gain anything from the Smarty. When you want to wiretap the VP, get you a TST Power Max, and it does fuel, while your MVP will do the timing. It's supposed to be an awesome combo. Stacks look excellent!

All in 4th gear?

The past couple days have been frustrating... Here's a link to my thread on the Cummins Forum... I'm not gonna type it all out again. http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/89-93-non-powertrain/1359321-hot-brake-drum.html#post15234609

Ebola = distraction by the government, and/or they want ebola here so they can sell a vaccine.

9 years is pretty good, considering the cost of that hose. Really good I guess, considering how many junk products are on the market these days.

Got a new E brake cable, so now that works. Last night I changed the oil in the differential. Today I got it inspected, and it passed, and then I installed the Diamond Eye 4" straight pipe.

AH-64's make one of the best sounds known to man.

Nice! Where at? Those little T-38's are cool little birds. (Or MiGs, if you've seen Top Gun )

Thanks, but no thanks. Got new fuses and bulbs yesterday, so now all the lights work, except the gauge cluster lights... (PO said they didn't work) At least I thought they didn't work, then I reminded myself I'm an idiot. I finally got smart enough to twist the headlight switch. The knob was a little hard to turn, and then bam, gauge lights. After turning it and playing with it a little, I determined that the switch is just kinda finicky. It doesn't go from bright, and smoothly down to dim. It has it's sweet spots, and then sometimes no lights at all, but all I have to do is run it in the correct position, and it's good. Tomorrow I'm going to tackle fixing the E brake, which requires pulling the axle. Hopefully I can get it fixed.

I've always been told it depends on how far you're towing it?

Mine is in a litte bit better shape than that...

As the title says, I bought me a first gen Dodge Cummins. It's a 1991.5 D250, regular cab, with a getrag 5 speed. The odometer stopped at 154,000, but the PO said it has about 160,000 on it. Dad and I drove nearly 500 miles up to Arkansas to pick it up. The rust is just surface, it's not bad yet. Video link: http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t488/WillM1/My%20Truck/th_HDV_1212_zps5b9e2ac9.mp4 It has some electrical problems. The most important one was to get the turn signals, head lights, tail lights, and brake lights to work. I feared the worst, and thought it might be a bad grimlin. After an hour or so of checking the obvious things out, I reattached a ground wire, and the headlights worked. With dad's help, and a test light, the signals were getting power, and so were the park lights, but one would signal, but the park light wouldn't work, and the other light was just the opposite. Turns out 1 bulb's signal filament was out, while the park light filament was good, and the other was just the opposite. One rear tail light worked great, and the other did nothing. After chasing some wires, we found that the wiring harness going to that light was pinched between the frame and the recently installed rear bumper, nearly cutting it in two. Re-wired that and it's good to go. Now I can pass the state inspection. The other issue is the gauge lights don't work... Haven't looked at that yet. Also the key ring light stays on, and eventually drains the battery. I just pull the #10 fuse and it fixes that. (for now) It needs a little front end work, and new tires, and I need to fix the E brake, and install new door hinge bushings. The interior is clean. The dash is not cracked, along with the windshield. The seat is not ripped, the headliner scores a 9.9 out of 10. It's missing the carpet, but I'm fine with that - I'll put down some good floor mats and call it a day. For $2,400, I'm happy.

Those look nice, Mike.

I was in the parts store the other day, and I looked at a brand new K&N they had on display. I held it up to the light, and I saw so much daylight it wasn't funny. I was cleaning my BHAF today, and I held it up to the light. We all know what I saw... Zilch. Just a big ole filter.

I see, time to move on... So lets see - now you have electronic gauges... Next you will be buying a K&N air filer.

What was wrong with your pyro?

And for the 24 valve guy, where exactly is this screw located?

Just a thought, but did you inspect your turbo? I know it's brand-spankin' new, but ya never know. And that's good there's no blow by.

Do you have a fuel pressure gauge? If it were junk in the line, and it caused the truck to die, you'd probably have no fuel pressure while it happened.

I meant to put this in General Discussion, but oh well... And here's some short clips from the documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVO894yyaNE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvugsSjI6s

Has anybody seen the documentary called, "The Hornet's Nest?" It came out in May, but I just recently saw it..... And wow. Everybody needs to see this - it really made me stop and think.