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Greetings Guys. Back again with more fun. Just completed replacing tappet cover gasket, upgrading transmission solenoids et, al. and pan gasket replacement with help of the site. Thanks guys for all the assistance. If these three projects were not enough pain in the ***, I decided to replace the engine mount bushings and add a big line kit and a set of A Column gauges (egt, boost and fuel pressure). Yeh, I know, a real masochist. Anyway my truck (2000 flatbed, extended cab, 1 TN, 4WD with 325K miles) currently has an idiot light for fuel pressure which I originally installed a couple of years ago when I added a Raptor lift pump. I would like to keep the idiot light just in case I don't happen to notice a falling needle on my new pressure gauge. (See - they named the light after me!) Everything went fine with the big line kit and gauge installation until I got around to testing my handiwork. The gauges work fine, but the low fuel pressure light does nothing. I tested the light - good. I tested the (+) lead to the light - good. I tested the (-) lead to the light - NO GROUND. Then it occurred to me. When the Low Fuel Pressure light was originally installed it was attached to the Banjo Bolt and got its sender ground through the metal contacts to the engine. Now the sender is attached to a "T" in the middle of the rubber big fuel line between the filter and VP44, hence, no ground. My big line kit replaces the Banjo bolts. (As I understand it, the low pressure sender internally is normally grounded but when it sees 5PSI (in my case) the pressure opens the contact and you have no ground contact between the sender threads and the wire attachment point to the low pressure light.) In my case now since there is no ground to start with, my light never functions. Then it occurred to me. What if I can provide a ground to the sender threads then it would function normally? So, now if I got a large ring wire connector that would fit over the threaded end of the sender and run a wire to the (-) battery terminal or another ground source, would not I solve my problem? The new fuel pressure gauge sender 2 inches away has a ground lead and I might just tap into that. I would only have to be sure that when I tightened my sender into the "T" in the big line it made good contact/compressed with the wire ring and did not leak. Has any of you gurus out there in Cummins' land faced this problem? If so, how did you solve it and does my proposed solution make any sense?
Regarding the fun of my engine mount bushing replacements, I will have to get back to you on that. I may be over my head on this one. If I get these done, I'm thinking of moving on to injectors and turbos. Never a dull moment.