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Batteries are dangerous. Dad tells me a story of a couple of 8D batteries that blew up in their repair shop in/during Vietnam turning a fellow's face into hamburger. Lead is toxic and lead shrapnel will give you a lifetime of problems. F*** around and find out! This is why modern chargers will...

Let me guess you already pulled the OnSuck battery parasite fuse?

This could get expensive. Is the filter head assembly readily available in case it goes "SNAP!" or strips? Does the filter absolutely need to be changed? The next thing that can give way is the filter can coming off the filter base plate leaving that stuck on the filter head. If it comes all...

Alternators change voltage depending on temperature AND voltage drop on the charge wire to the remote voltage sense wire. Load doesn't change the commanded voltage by design to the limit of the alternator at idle speed. My 2003 Dodge Cummins ran 15V and had the least amount of battery failures...

That's under 15V. Depending on temperature it's fine. Unless the battery stinks and/or is boiled dry ... again FINE. OT the 2002's had a TSB to move the alternator "sense" wire to the output of the alternator as it would "ring" with noise during a shift and confuse the ECM. This change removed...

SO?! Test them and be sure they aren't the problem. Never give anything a free pass because it's "NEW". Offhand: Defective, died an early death, or bad cable not charging a battery ruining it... The not clean ground if it was a battery ground could have murdered your new battery. Just saying do...

Is this a CA emissions or 49 state? CA has an electric EGR where 49 state is vac operated. A stuck open EGR would stall the engine at idle. (I had the CA electric version randomly stick on me and primitive ECM had NO CLUE.) Vac operated EGR can flop open off idle and give you trouble. Vac...

Fixed it for you. Clarification the mat of debris that builds up on the condenser requires the oil coolers to be moved away from the condenser to clean off.

And the most overlooked thing in A/C repair is the fan that removes the heat the A/C system is pulling out of the cab because the engine isn't spitting coolant overheating. 160F condenser temp is in the overheat high head pressure range for a R134A system. The engine will not overheat with a...

Curious as to the size and kind trailer, terrain aka what part of the country, and what it's actually getting for MPG? The major problems for HD use were not addressed: a turbo that's too small. The van has the better manifolds and you should have the most updated cooling system although GM...

Maybe you did this 5+ years ago and your fan clutch is aged out as they loose 200 RPM a year. The E/V electronic clutches could compensate for this although they get slow to respond as they age. You have a taken your Dodge back to the OBSOLETE STONE AGE with the Spring Thermal Fan Clutch! The...

I assume new rod bolts? Just from the runaway fatigue.

Come on over to The Darkside. We have coffee! Even a modern Gasoline engine will do a better job than the vintage pickup you have now. Ride in a new 400+HP 1000+ Ft LB Cummins and I bet this truck gets Farm Duty. Cummins is proud of their parts and RAM, although improved, is not known for...

Gapless rings should allow the engine oil interval to go longer although soot not metals was the limiting factor I would run into. Small difference between runaway to failure and overspeed. If the engine doesn't pop a rod it can have serious bearing damage from it. Aircraft engines are well...

:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: My experience with alternate fuel was very expensive. I have said many times a bad injection system will take the diesel engine with it. I would suspect the alternate fuel wasn't burning well or they got hold of peanut or other oil that simply gums the works...

Check for codes. A nightmare long list is also the same problems outlined below as the ECM "fries" on low voltage, brownout, and can't function properly until voltage is high enough. So clean grounds. Separate and load test batteries. NPF? than replace the ignition switch and autopsy the old...

Focus on this. No dash lights = NO ECM Power! Offhand I suggest it's the ignition switch.

You will be better off towing the RV with the 350. On the OEM turbo I bet the MPG will be the same towing: the 350 and the 6.5TD both getting around 7 MPG. Unless the 6.5TD has a bigger turbo (bigger turbo gets better MPG towing) and all the cooling system updates, HO water pump, 9 blade or...

The 3 bolts on the IP gear will not all go in if that happens.

It's not physically possible to jump the IP gear out of time as there is NOT enough clearance in the chain drive housing to allow the gears to un-mesh. I have tried it. However, the timing chain will stretch out to very very sloppy from the normal shock IP loads and I have seen the sprockets...