DieselJake

Okay so I've confirmed the lift pump is dead. I honestly don't have $600 plus dollars at the moment to upgrade to a FASS. Although after reading and researching i also don't want to leave my VP44 vulnerable to a cheap China made lift pump either... is there a happy medium between the OEM replacement and the big money lift pumps? Thank you!

Thank you for the detailed information Sir!! I will update you all on how it goes

Thank you all for answering me and taking the time this morning to help me understand what happened! It makes sense now based on the fact that a VP can bring fuel through a dead lift pump but when I drained out that water/fuel cannister, it introduced air and exposed the problem of a dead lift pump. Follow up question: I will go ahead and purchase a new lift pump and might as well change the fuel filter, after I install both what should be my steps to prime the truck? Should I crack the banjo nut on the VP and when I see fuel squirting out move up to the injectors?

I have a 1998 Dodge Ram 24V Cummins 3500 2WD Dually. Yesterday I moved the little selector on my fuel filter housing and pushed it down releasing a little diesel. I stopped after about 5 seconds. I did that with the truck off. After about 2 hours I went to leave and the truck turned over, fired and then stalled. Since then it won't crank. I have watched some YouTube videos about priming it, some people saying I let air in the system other saying my VP is toast and honestly I am new to Dodge Cummins so I am not familiar with what to do. This is what I've done so far: 1. Turned the truck over about 45-50 times, it won't fire. I killed both batteries. 2. Charged the batteries and cracked the fuel injectors just 1 and 3. Turned the truck over about 20 times: no fuel came out. 3. Opened the two little pressure screws? On top of the fuel filter housing and topped the fuel filter housing with diesel. Attempted to turn it over 10 times: no fire. 4. Cracked open the fuel line nut LEAVING the filter housing going to the VP: turned it over about 10x: no fire and no fuel came out. 5. Cracked open the nut on top of the fuel filter housing coming FROM the lift pump, attempted to turn it over 10x no fuel came out. Took the nut out, attempted to turn the truck over and it stayed bone dry got no fuel and no start. 6. Turned the key to the on position but no start and listened for the lift pump to engage: silence. Turned the key to the on position, then bumped the started, listened for lift pump to engage: silence. Checked the fuel pump relay and swapped it with another relay, checked fuel pump fuse: nothing. 7.Everyone is telling me to go purchase a new lift pump now and it seems like that is the problem I guess. The lift pump is dead silent, its not filling the fuel filter cannister, but I cant seem to think something else is going on here...why in hell would it suddenly die just because I released the water/fuel valve on the fuel filter housing? What do you all think? Thank you