40psi and quiet!
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From: Plankinton, SD
You must be pretty much ready for spring travels then, huh? What the heck you gonna do the rest of the winter? 
You get bored, I'm about ready to start a dually conversion and new exhaust. I know you know the way to SD..
You get bored, I'm about ready to start a dually conversion and new exhaust. I know you know the way to SD..
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From: AZ
I would love to come and help you but would probably get in your way and you would just tell me to go home,
. I'm still thinking about getting those fenders off that dually in this junk yard. I hate seeing that dually sitting there in the dirt right down to the axles! Its not smashed up, I don't know why its there, maybe because it was a gasser, LOL
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From: Plankinton, SD
LOL! You wouldn't get in the way! If you like to BS though, my dad would always be out there watching/supervising(haha) me. He'd probably get talking to you and I'd have 2 supervisors!!
You should check on the fenders, maybe they'd be real cheap, never know. I may need a spare, I'll probably run into something with those things sticking out! Probably not until after I get it painted though!
You deserve some rest. You've done a lot to that truck of yours over the last year or so! Plus all that traveling on christmas eve.
You should check on the fenders, maybe they'd be real cheap, never know. I may need a spare, I'll probably run into something with those things sticking out! Probably not until after I get it painted though!
You deserve some rest. You've done a lot to that truck of yours over the last year or so! Plus all that traveling on christmas eve.
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From: AZ
Mission accomplished.
***** Nelson has his song wrong. Instead of the way he sings it, it should be: "On the SIDE of the road again". LOLLOL. Ran it for over 80miles on the new rear tank and the reading on the fuel gauge was all over the place. Then I started getting a lot of vibration so pulled off on 'the side of the road again'. It acted like I had a burnt UVCH but the first thing I looked at was the fuel pressure. I have it set at 70psi and it showed 65psi. The gauge under the hood agreed. The check engine light was on, 1211 (normal) and 0478 for EBPV (normal). I changed tanks and starting looking up the codes just to make sure I had it right. I only had one bar of signal so it probably took five minutes to look them up. By then it was running OK and took off for 220 miles more.
5psi drop in fuel pressure and it craps out??
new tank, new filters, new sending unit with a clean screen??
codes would not put it into limp mode or what ever you could call the way it ran??
90% sure I didn't cross the hoses on the sending unit. It would not run if I had them wrong?? Well, it did run for 80 miles!
Edit: the fenders Darin are $50 apiece and one is not perfect. I'm like you, its like I can see into the future, I know I'll get one screwed up sometime.
***** Nelson has his song wrong. Instead of the way he sings it, it should be: "On the SIDE of the road again". LOLLOL. Ran it for over 80miles on the new rear tank and the reading on the fuel gauge was all over the place. Then I started getting a lot of vibration so pulled off on 'the side of the road again'. It acted like I had a burnt UVCH but the first thing I looked at was the fuel pressure. I have it set at 70psi and it showed 65psi. The gauge under the hood agreed. The check engine light was on, 1211 (normal) and 0478 for EBPV (normal). I changed tanks and starting looking up the codes just to make sure I had it right. I only had one bar of signal so it probably took five minutes to look them up. By then it was running OK and took off for 220 miles more.
5psi drop in fuel pressure and it craps out??
new tank, new filters, new sending unit with a clean screen??
codes would not put it into limp mode or what ever you could call the way it ran??
90% sure I didn't cross the hoses on the sending unit. It would not run if I had them wrong?? Well, it did run for 80 miles!
Edit: the fenders Darin are $50 apiece and one is not perfect. I'm like you, its like I can see into the future, I know I'll get one screwed up sometime.
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From: AZ
Awww, let me explain this a little more, LOL. I wanted the biggest vent I could possibly get in there. When I first raised the tank up, the plastic 90° I used on top of the tank was hitting the bottom of the bed. So, I added a strip of rubber 3/8" stripes inbetween the straps on the frame and the tank, which lowered the tank a little. Being a little lower screwed me in connecting the fuel lines to the sender because of the frame and the angle created. So, I cut the factory lines off and put on fuel lines with hose clamps. Could it run 80 miles like that if they were crossed? Why would only a 5psi drop in pressure show up?
Your right, physically impossible to mix up the connections. They are different sizes but the lines along the frame are the same size. Man, I don't think I mixed them up.
Edit: forgot the picture. I doubled clamped the lines, still maybe some air being sucked in?????
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From: Orrville, Ohio
Haha! Busted!! Lol.
I doubt you're sucking air through the connections, but if you had the hoses backwards I could see it sucking some serious air. I don't think 5 PSI drop would necessarily make a difference in how the truck runs, but if it was sucking a bunch of air because it was picking up fuel through the return port in the tank, that could certainly account for it losing some fuel pressure. I guess the true test would be to top the tank off again, run it for a while and see if you get the same thing around 80 miles into that tank of fuel again.
How long was the tube on the return line of the sending unit that you used? I really hate to say it, but if you're dealing with an issue with the sending unit, it sounds like you may be dropping the tank again anyway, no?
I doubt you're sucking air through the connections, but if you had the hoses backwards I could see it sucking some serious air. I don't think 5 PSI drop would necessarily make a difference in how the truck runs, but if it was sucking a bunch of air because it was picking up fuel through the return port in the tank, that could certainly account for it losing some fuel pressure. I guess the true test would be to top the tank off again, run it for a while and see if you get the same thing around 80 miles into that tank of fuel again.
How long was the tube on the return line of the sending unit that you used? I really hate to say it, but if you're dealing with an issue with the sending unit, it sounds like you may be dropping the tank again anyway, no?
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From: AZ
Haha! Busted!! Lol.
I doubt you're sucking air through the connections, but if you had the hoses backwards I could see it sucking some serious air. I don't think 5 PSI drop would necessarily make a difference in how the truck runs, but if it was sucking a bunch of air because it was picking up fuel through the return port in the tank, that could certainly account for it losing some fuel pressure. I guess the true test would be to top the tank off again, run it for a while and see if you get the same thing around 80 miles into that tank of fuel again.
How long was the tube on the return line of the sending unit that you used? I really hate to say it, but if you're dealing with an issue with the sending unit, it sounds like you may be dropping the tank again anyway, no?
I doubt you're sucking air through the connections, but if you had the hoses backwards I could see it sucking some serious air. I don't think 5 PSI drop would necessarily make a difference in how the truck runs, but if it was sucking a bunch of air because it was picking up fuel through the return port in the tank, that could certainly account for it losing some fuel pressure. I guess the true test would be to top the tank off again, run it for a while and see if you get the same thing around 80 miles into that tank of fuel again.
How long was the tube on the return line of the sending unit that you used? I really hate to say it, but if you're dealing with an issue with the sending unit, it sounds like you may be dropping the tank again anyway, no?
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From: AZ
Did your turbo seal hold up?
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From: Southern West Virginia
Don't know yet. I haven't driven it since I made the drain bigger. I still have the leak that I think is the HPOP gasket, so I'm waiting on one from Clay. Tracking says it will be here Monday. I'll try to get that changed after work Monday evening, but probably won't take it for a drive until Tuesday evening.
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Oh yea, forgot about the hpop leak. You'll get it just like I will but at times its hard getting kicked in the teeth and getting back up again. Should I put a LOL on that statement? Oh what the hel!, LOL