2002 Ram 2500 Loss of Power
From : john a reichert
Q: marksegal@optonline.net wrote i am not a truck person so i apologize if i dont make much sense. either way..... i have a 2002 dakota v6 4x4 sxt that i got used about 6 months ago. one time i overloaded the truck. when i got it home a smell of burning brakes was coming from it. although i havent done that again when i am carrying anything of a decent weight 400+ lbs i smell that smell again to a certain extent. 1. whats going on 2. what did i do 3. how do i fix it what do i tell the mechanic to check thanks! do you have a clutch brake and clutch often smell the same. if it is brakes take them apart and see what they look like. are the pads glazed the rotor scorched and blued dirt and oil on the drums -- ..bob 2006 fxdi hot rod 2001 dodge dakota qc 5.9/4x4/3.92 1966 mustang coupe - daily driver 1965 ffr cobra - 427w efi damn fast. .
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From : charles
bigironram wrote to generate power for california old plants had to be fired up from stagnant a significant cost alone and then they incurred fines from the epa for polluting texas. or did you think texans should have incurred those costs we already have some of the highest rates in the nation. and then some of us not me but hi craig! voluntarily pay extra to get clean power. if you dont like our rates generate your own power. last year my bill was pushing $500.00 for a 1540 sq. ft. house my brother in law got hit with $700.00 in his larger house. were getting a break this year due to record rainfall and cooler temperatures. californians benifit quite a bit from arizonans footing much of their power bill. arizonans paid srp to build the palo verde nuclear plant east of phoenix. we were told at the time our bills would be reduced. before completion politicians got involved and most of the plants power goes to california not arizona. cost overruns caused arizona srp bills to increase to pay for said overruns. thanks california! .
From : tom lawrence
other posters suggested the lift pump. i had guages installed on my 2001 w/100k miles and immediately noticed the pressure should be 5 psi or more would go down as low as one psi - again no load no trailer. i replaced the lift pump myself. cost around $200. now it is 15 psi at idle and does not go much below 10 psi. i understand the lift pump is no longer sold i had to go to cummins. the fix now is what cummins originally reccommended a pump in the tank. so you run yourself low on diesel fuel and for about $500 what i paid for the egt and lift pump pressure guages w/installation they replace the lift pump with a pump in the tank which apparently solves the problem permanently. otoh you can buy the same lift pump from carquest but with a different wiring. so you would need to splice the wiring from your old pump to get it to fit. in the meantime you may be starving the last two cylinders of fuel and damaging them not to mention the main injection pump which costs around $2k to replace. get it done real soon! if you replace it with another lift pump get the gauges so you know in advance next time. charles john a reichert wrote recently the power from my 2002 diesel has become inconsistent. if the truck sits for a day or two it take a mile or two before it feels normal as far as power. while driving this first mile or two the engine just seems to lug. this is with no load in bed or trailer. this has a manual trans so you can normally feel the torque through the gears as you shift. i use this truck mostly for commuting. today while coming of the interstate after about a 20 trip the same symptoms again. these cleared up and i was able to drive home. call the dealer asked for a possible explanation of cause. he was at a loss. the truck has 65000 miles could this be a fuel filter problem any ideas would be appreciated. regards john .
From : john a reichert
the lady that rides a motorcycle and is probably stil smoking. make sure you tell her i said hello. i talked to he every night before she boarded the last franklin local. she quit smoking four months ago. i told her i was talkin to someone local on this forum then i showed her this reply of yours she said oh i know him. thats gotta be roy w. she asked how your shoulder and leg from the atv wer doing if you know her then you probably know me. i used to wal her out to the train sometimes then most likely headed back t three cheers i dont do that type of thing anymore now that i have m class 1 license btw - three cheers closed at the end of 2006 ive also known dan for about 35 years as well you want t get his attention call him veronica he hasnt heard it for some time. i hit him up with that at the union meeting last night. h got a chuckle out of it and explained the veronica lake story dan was all over the contract stuff. he should have been lawyer we are all voting no but they had e mails that three othe locals were recomending yes votes they didnt have any info on how big those locals wer compared to the amount of vote no local members though s i dont know what that means gotta run. ill check back here later if you are talking about denny parker the piper he just ha a massive heart attack a week ago. i havent heard how it all turne out taking the readville shuttle home from that gig i ran int th bombardier guys at south station doing the acela startup. ha worked with most of them in 94-95 as my first job in th subcontrac business doing the red line 1800 series cars found out they needed trainriders around the same time my q jo ended so i went to bombardier. by that time marty f was genera foreman at hsr when the bombardier job ended i went to amtrak as a q inspector an my fellow qais were marty randy and the well known mik fraites mike worked for me at a couple of outside points. had to resor to old school railroading to get him into line. he was fired a coupl of years ago at amtrak within a month or two randy and marty went to mbcr and mik left the business thats all ill say on that the other guys did the qa job as inspectors at the facility bu the hired me mainly as station protect for the morning acela runs that what i did for bomb the last few months after the trainride progra ended i did the whole boston hsr q&a thing by myself for abou nin months working with chris furtado as the hsr gm i think tha was th title after paul cottam retired there are two people you can never trust. i saw chris on hi knees tying a managers shoe for him. cottam was a lying pos. i understand h was told to leave they liked my work and knew me al the way to ny and dc. they promised me id have a job when th qa jobs dried up as necmsc bomb & alsthoms hsr managemen group was being phased out but i got passed over for a job or two so wen to engine school if you visit the railroad look me up. ill be the one that wen t school for 11 weeks and trained for 16 months just to end u doing mph and occasionally 15mph most of it backwards actually i occasionally can hold a spare board position. nothin lik doing 125 or 150mph and its legal! - this site is one of the best ones for good informative response thanks to steve lusardi tbone and a bunch more roy wrote there is a ton of info here on just about anything. ya have to wadethrough some bs to get it at times but it there. hell when im going back and forth between fl and ma i get atraffic report for dc from one of the guys. roytake care john .
From : john a reichert
what is the lift pumps function its a 12v electric pump mounted to the left-rear of the engine that sucks fuel from the fuel tank and feeds it to the injection pump. the injection pump is a high-pressure mechanically-driven electronically-controlled pump that supplies fuel to each cylinders fuel injector. it relies on a constant supply of diesel fuel for lubrication. if the lift pump starts to fail and cant keep up with the demand for fuel that the injection pump needs you experience a loss of power. you also starve your expensive injection pump of the lubrication it needs and the pump eats itself up resulting in a repair cost of over $1000. so find a place that can service a diesel vehicle and have the lift pump tested and replaced if necessary - the sooner the better. .
From : tom lawrence
sorry wrote sorry to keep bugging everyone about this but i just dont know. 77 dodge van 318. on startup ammeter needle swings from full charge to midrange. loud squealing when ammeter needle swings to full charge. noise goes away after engine warms up. i think i tried tightening the belt long time ago and made no difference. visual inspection of belt appears ok. it is one of those kind that is serrated on the pulley side but no glazing or obvious wear. looking at a shop diagnostic report sheet from long ago it is somewhat illegible but says under alternator output bad dode stator which i guess legibly written means bad diode stator would this cause the noise the belt looks ok and i brought the alternator down to autozone for them to test on their machine. test said it was ok but mgr. there said it was probably a bad diode in the alternator. should i buy a new alternator and see if the noise disappears alternator tests ok leave it alone for now. the squealing is a symptom of a belt problem. either worn glazed or loose. how many belts does this vehicle have it might not even be the alternator belt. check them all. -- paul hovnanian mailtopaul@hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ where am i going and what am i doing in this handbasket .
From : wcmj
in response to wcmj s post. i thought everyone should know i have 354000 on my diesel engine and it is running great. how long does a cummins usally last damn near forever....*grin* -- chris .