I changed every light on my truck. I was impressed with the license plate lights. You need to reach up behind the bumper to remove the bulb. I tried to pry mine out of the bumper and broke them both LOL They were $25 so not cheap to replace. They are a big improvement over the stock bulbs. It's a shame I have so many cars.

 

Yeah I have to do that to mine...

I still have to replace one of my factory license plate holders... the black plastic top cover came off... the 194 bulbs I replaced for the front map lights were off Amazon... bright **** ers to be sure.




https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...0?ie=UTF8&th=1

Will probably use these cheapies when the weather warms up or when I finally get to ordering a new factory light housing for the plate...

 

It was a pain to remove that cover from that light. Then is was a pain to remove the bulb. I had to remove the reflector just to get the old bulb out and the new one in. I don't want to do that one again LOL

 

Yeah that's right... it was a pain and I had to remove the reflector as well...

 

So apparently the S&B Fuel Sending Unit for the 17 to 22 6.7s has been out since September of last year. I do see they are developing a unit for us 11 to 16 guys which will ship in April of this year.

From the website here,

"Aftermarket lift pumps provide more fuel to your diesel engine but face issues at a 1/4 tank fuel level. The S&B Sending Unit allows you to drive to empty with your pump. Completely plug and play, with no need to modify your OEM tank or sending unit.


*For use with aftermarket lift pumps only. Works with any fuel tank, OE or aftermarket."

 

^^^ My concern with this approach for the 11-16 trucks is the in tank lift pump may emulsify any water with the diesel before it flows thru the fuel filter/water separator.

 

An aftermarket lift pump like the Air Dog for example, as that's what's going on mine, has a water separating filter on it.

 

The Air Dog system looks like it does an outstanding job of removing air from diesel fuel

 

I should have commented on this, that term "Venturi Jet Pump," is what they are just calling their replacement fuel sending unit as I don't believe that theirs has an in tank lift pump in it like the newer Super Dutys (17s plus) have from the factory. Remember, this is for use with an aftermarket external lift pump only that would be pulling fuel from the tank. I do know that the FASS lift pump for the 11 to 16 6.7 application requires dropping the fuel tank to modify the fuel sending unit to use with the FASS pump. Not sure on the 17 plus trucks.

In the kit with the Air Dog pump I have, there is 1/2 inch rubber fuel line provided, and the factory suction line from the tank sending unit, is replaced with this 1/2 inch ID hose and a new OEM style 90 degree connector that's provided to feed the Air Dog with. I'm not removing the factory DFCM and will feed it with the Air Dog. I still haven't decided whether I will use the "Y" fitting provided with my kit, as it was meant to replace the DFCM, to tie the Air Dog return to the factory return line or buy the fuel tank filling hose "T" fitting to send Air Dog return fuel back to the tank. After discussion with Air Dog about me retaining my DFCM, they sent me a different spring to get the fuel pressure down to 10 PSI that's required to feed the DFCM (the original kit they sold used to feed the DFCM and was preset at 10 PSI). As seen in that video, the return fuel from the Air Dog appears to be very low pressure. I was part of a discussion here on that very subject as speaker fritz brought up that very subject as he has a AFE lift pump on his F450.

I'm thinking S&B re-designed the fuel sending unit at the bottom to overcome the potential problems of running the fuel level low, which even with the use of an aftermarket lift pump, can still happen.

I have no plans to replace mine when I install the Air Dog but would look at it seriously if I were to replace my OEM 26 gallon tank with Titan Tank's 50 gallon tank. I originally wanted to do S&Bs 56 gallon tank but that tank's design makes it protrude under the DEF tank, which would require dropping one side of the tank to be able to drop the DEF tank to replace the DEF heater as @Dirthawg2.0 found out when he installed S&Bs 56 gallon fuel tank.

So I'm thinking that after the Air Dog is installed, if I replaced the OEM sending unit with S&Bs unit with the Titan tank, it would be total plug and play as their unit appears to have all the OEM designed male fittings for total compatibility with the OEM female fuel connectors

 

Just caught this notification on my phone... S&S teamed with Stanadyne and PurePower Technologies to offer a new replacement pump for the Bosch CP4.2...

I'm watching now. Enjoy...

 

I was hoping that it wouldn't require removing the vacuum pump, but guess that was very wishful thinking (needs that gear shaft). Seems like that would be the most difficult part to remove, since you practically have to disassemble everything in front of that vacuum pump to get it removed (from what I've seen on videos).

Man, I really dig that the lubrication is through the shaft of the cam, instead of just depending upon the fuel being present as a bath in the case like the CP4.

If I decide to go this route I'll likely just pay someone to do it, and be done with it. Too much time involved, and that's a luxury I just do not have a lot of these days. Have they posted prices for the replacement pump yet?

Edit: Just tried to go to their link from the video, and the page crashed. I reckon they're being pummelled by hits...

 

Just watched the whole video on YouTube... Two take aways here; 1 -- a more robust and reliable design like the CP3 but that if a rare failure is to happen, due to the different fuel path design, that if the pump failed, all the debris would stay in the pump and NOT be pumped out to the lines and injectors but to the tank to have to go through two OEM filters...

Number two, having pressurized fuel lube that cam like a camshaft does with oil in an engine...

I can tell you, once my DPK kit is installed and if I had a failure later on, I would definitely do this pump and then sell the DPK kit to someone who still had the CP4.2, to recover some money. This is awesome stuff...

 

Must be nice being a hot dog on YouTube to get new products before they are offered to the general public... Appears ARod has one of the new S&S DCR HPFPs in his hands.

 

I have heard of complaints about my thread here, that's it's tough to search through because it's so long but I have been thinking about doing a "Table of Contents" on the first page of this thread... If and when I start a table of contents with links to each entry, I will let you guys know. Since its my thread and I always intended it to inform other users, I think doing a list of contents, so it would be easier for others to look through and research, is relevant here... There are so many dead end threads here in the 6.7 section that IMO, I thought doing one truck thread was a better idea. But I also want to simplify it for the users here... Stay tuned..

 

You can dump my stuff if you want. I kind of hijacked your thread LOL