broke down hillsville, va

[AGPTurbo]

My number 3 injection line snapped off at the vp. I'm looking for any ideas

[AGPTurbo]

I think I have a used line coming from a local garage. I've never read about this happening on this forum

[JAG1]

I don't know but I think you'll need to go to Cummins parts.

 

So it snapped from high pressure and fatigue?

 

Is there a way it might work to cap that one off till you get home? This might be a bad idea however

 

Perhaps a wrecking yard nearby.

 

I've never heard of this happening either.

[AGPTurbo]

Broke clean off about 1/4 inch behind the nut on the VP. I have the line off, was able to sneak it out

[JAG1]

Are you stuck somewhere besides home?

[CTcummins24V]

When driving? That's odd. Any corrosion?

[AGPTurbo]

I'm on the way to Myrtle Beach from Pittsburgh found a mechanic he sold me a used line. Back on the road. No corrosion on my line just a clean break.

[JAG1]

I'm glad you got it fixed.

 

You must be living right to have gotten a new/ used line so easily

[AGPTurbo]

You have no idea how lucky I am. I try to treat everyone with respect and this was one of those times it came back to me. I blew the line right after fueling up so I thought it was bad fuel, I had my wife find a napa up ahead and it was 16 miles down i77. The gps took me to a dead end residential street instead of the napa- unreal. At that point I saw smoke and smelled diesel and knew something was wrong. As I pulled into the napa in Hillsville, VA, a guy came walking up and asked if I needed any tools, as he was inside when I called the clerk to check on a fuel filter. When we popped the hood we saw fuel on everything and I mean everything from the firewall to the rear axle. I cranked the truck and we didn't see anything but fuel mist. I removed the filter housing and cranked it again and we could see the fuel shooting straight back out of the number three line that was broken clean off. Unbelievable the truck didn't catch fire. At least it's rustproofed. I got a hold of a company called cobra diesel and he happened to have a non running parts truck behind his shop and he called his weekend mechanic to bring the lines down. I took the number 3 out put it on, cracked a few injector lines and we were in business - 4 hours total. Absolutely thankful for everyone that helped me today. Could have been a trip ender for sure!

[Buzzinhalfdozen]

That's a whole lot of bad luck followed by a whole lot of good luck! Better pay it forward to keep that good karma coming your way.

[rburks]

AGP Turbo

 

     Man Im sorry, i am only about 1/2hr from Wythville and 40 from Hillsville, I was in garage all day reinstalling valve body in trans and didn't see this till this morning. i had a hole set of lines and some new.. id been glade to came to ya and got you going...

    as I am in your neck of the woods sometimes,

 

      MT Morris, waynesburg, Indiana, Johnstown, etc..

[Mopar1973Man]

At least you got it resolved. Like said above pay it forward to keep good karma going.

[rburks]

i just thought of something, may not be worth much "But here goes

  Do you still have all your clamps and isolators on your injector lines????   The only time I've seen this myself is when somebody has had line off and didn't bother to put back some or none of the clamps/isolators

Edited June 21, 2015 by rburks

[AGPTurbo]

Rburks, thanks for that- I still have a lot of this trip to go and a return trip home so keep looking here! Funny you mention the isolators- when the guy brought the line set, I noticed his had an extra on my doesn't - the 3 bar one closest to the vp on the set that broke. After closely inspecting my existing lines, I could see the faint marks where it originally was. He let me take that extra one and I am going to install it before we leave myrtle for florida. My truck had a vp installed before I bought it at a shop on WV, so I guess whoever put it on left it on the shop floor lol. NOW , I have to cross my fingers that the other 2 weren't affected.

[CSM]

Andrew, 

 

All I can surmise from this, is that for some odd reason folks in Virginia just... well... they want YOU out of Virginia!  

[AGPTurbo]

And I was happy to go. Although I was packing cold beer and sandwiches, that I shared with my new friends of course