Well, there are plenty of things that can go wrong, but if I were going to shoot from the hip with no other information on your '03 I would guess that the ICP sensor failed and contaminated the connector and harness. It is on the driver side under the turbo. Oil leaks through the sensor and...
I had looked at the connections at the PCM and Power Distribution Center early on. Everything looked good then, although I have not looked at the IDM connector. I have ohm tested the sensor circuits and short-tested (connect one end to fused power, ground the other end and see if the circuit...
I have a problem on a '99 F250 that I have found described in TSB 97-15a as PCM Reset. The truck acts like the key has been turned off and back on quickly: the WIF, WTS and SES lights cycle and the accelerator returns to idle until it is released and reapplied. The problem happens more when...
Hey 616, did you ever figure it out?
If you turn the key on, off, on, off, on without starting the engine it should display the code (if any) on the odometer. Do you have any electronics added to the engine?
Interesting. I guess the edges of the tread blocks do the gripping on snow? It's easy to see that there are twice as many edges on the A/T as the M/T when you look at that first comparison page. I thought that it was the deep lugs with enough room between them to allow the snow to pack in...
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It is my understanding that siping is more effective on tires that have large blocks of rubber. Trucks I've driven with these tires had good street manners and acceptable noise. My commute is 16 miles of 2 lane backroad, (not 50 miles of freeway) and when the weather is crappy it is...
Hey guys, I'm considering putting 285/70-17 Mud Terrains on my '03 Dodge 3500 SRW as winter tires. The truck is mostly my commuter, is pressed into farm duty sometimes. Towing is random; usually a fairly light flatbed trailer with project materials; I have a travel trailer but probably not...
Phillip,
Sorry that nobody responded, I have been away for a while. I believe that the vacuum pump should be making at least 20" vacuum. I don't know how much it takes to turn the warning light off, but if the light is on then there is something wrong.
As I recall the rear axle sensor on...
Second Gen Dodges up to the 2001s have a vacuum operated sliding splined sleeve in the middle of one of the front axles. When the transfer case is in 4wd the sleeve is slid onto both halves (on that side) it works like a regular open drive axle. When the transfer case is in 2wd the sleeve is...
The belt chirp seems to happen more often on the automatics, maybe the torque converter has less inertia than a flywheel and the engine can turn backwards quicker.
Darrin, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but 7 grand for a first gen 2x4 and the lady is riding a bus for 1000 miles to...
Do you mean when you start the engine or when you start away from a stop? In either case I wouldn't sweat it too much since a bit of black smoke is normal. If it is really bad on acceleration from a stop there could be a misadjustment or a binding problem in the aneroid system. There is a...
Although not impossible, I would not think that the banjo joint would start leaking out of the blue. When I've known of it leaking is after it has been disturbed. I'd be more suspicious of the pump itself (10 years is not so bad on a fuel pump). If you have taped the fuel vacuum switch wire...
Is it like ambient air warm or more like "heater is on" warm? I've never had the opportunity to work on a dual climate system but I'd guess that the rear evaporator has an expansion valve (that might be plugged) that could cause it to not get cold. If it feels like the heater is on then there...
If it is coming from the flywheel cover/bell housing then look up in the valley of the engine. If you have noticed sediment covering the bottom of the fuel filter housing under the heater plate then there is a good chance that the housing has corroded through. Other possibilities: hoses...
The failure that I have seen is that when you press the accelerator the engine remains at idle. The pedal assembly has 2 parts; the Idle Validation Switch that is just on or off to tell the PCM that you are not pressing the pedal (this is the portion that I have seen fail), and the sensor...
DJ,
I'd check the connector on the fuel heater at the top of the filter (points toward the back), disconnect it and see if it has fuel on the connector. If so then replace it and see what happens. you don't mention if the lift pump has ever been replaced; at that mileage it would be cheap...
I have seen chips and programmers cause the 1211. If you watch the data stream on one of those trucks and run it hard the ICP shows unusually low even though the truck is making good power. I am certainly not an engineer and someone that knows more about how the chips works can correct me but...
Certainly would make it interesting in the pickup truck market, wouldn't it? I'd be very surprised if they would consider a merge. I am a bit surprised that Daimler/Chrysler has not put a European Diesel in the Ram pickups considering the effort that they are putting into keeping the...
Funny; all those pictures and none of the engine bay. Who really cares what the passenger's seat looks like?
I have convinced myself that I need a dump/flat bed as a "farm truck". I'm just not sure that 5 acres constitutes a farm. And then the reality of higher priorities sets in....
I don't mean to belittle their racing success but in the real world they are not that dependable. There is considerable stuff to go wrong with them: complex electronics so that it can tie into the existing electronics without setting a bunch of codes; it may only operate while going forward, so...
I would try plugging it in and see if all is OK when the block heater gets it warmed up. If it runs OK then look to the GP system. If still rough then you will be proved correct on the air theory. I think that the little check valve (I'm assuming that you have a 7.3) on the filter housing can...
I have driven a 12 valve powered Chev pickup with the GM trans and it was programmed for a higher revving engine than the Cummins. If he is using a 24 v or HPCR it'd probably be OK or a 12v with a good governor spring kit to get more revs. Given the prospect of making the Dodge PCM work with...
I had an oportunity to drive a 6.5L Chev (4" lifted regular cab) with (as I recall) 12.50-35x16 (or was it 17?) and it had good road mannors for a Mud Terrain tire. Relaitvely quiet, smooth, was able to be balanced. I did not have the chance to try them where it would really count, but they...
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