Aux Diesel heater installed
From : calf
Q: on mon 17 jan 2005 095709 -0600 all of a sudden mike simmons mikesim@yhti.net exclaimed on fri 14 jan 2005 172557 -0600 mike simmons mikesim@yhti.net wrote thanks!!! amazin what you can learn here if you just tell us the make model and year.... oh yeah and color! ;^ mike and the type of seats and bun warmers with corresponding current draw.. smartass! ;^ m humph. actually what came to mind for me was warmass! yeah well mine stays warm thank you very much! these other guys are just jealous! ;^ well now mike you got my curiosity up. just how warm is your ass no fair asking the wifey on this... denny 98.6 if ya gotta know. all i know is that when it is zero out i go out and fire up the cummins and hit the seat switch. i go back inside and finish my cuppa coffee and then head to work. when i plunk my tush on the seat i feel a nice warm glow instead of a gawdamnitscold! ;^ mike ifn ya didnt have those sissy leather seatcovers yall wouldnt have that problem to start with. real trucks have cloth seats!! vbg denny .
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From : calf
with no problems we dont sell them as a maintenance thing in the shop either i know... and for the most part todays fuel and fuel stations are pretty clean but it only takes one bad tank of dirty fuel to plug up a filter and id just much rather have the filter external and easily changed out in the event something like that happens. .
From : calf
i am going to change my fuel filter this weekend and wondering if there are any extra needed tools to change it it is a 2003 dodge ram 1500. can i just take the old filter out and install the new one seems like i would have to rebuild the pressure .
From : trey
on wed 19 jan 2005 200217 -0600 william. boyd william@cowboy.net wrote mike simmons wrote indeed mike. as far back as 94 with an old v10 power factory the manual explicitly noted the transmission workaround for cold temps. ya gotta get in touch with the folks who do the writing of the manuals for dc and tell them to use more pictures. indeed! the truly sad part is i see this on an almost daily basis. perhaps im strange but i simply cannot fathom anyone who would spend something north of $30k and not take to time to spend some time reading about their investment. even though i work around these vehicles every day when i purchase one for my own use i read the manual from cover to cover and i never fail to learn something i didnt know. the best way to maximize your enjoyment from this major purchase is to take the time to read about it in the owners manual. your will learn how to work all the gizmos whats normal and whats not and most of all how to maintain it properly! my philosophy is that if it costs more than 50 bucks and it comes with a manual read the damned thing! climbing down from my soapbox thank you very much! mike but! but! but! now there are reasons not to know every thing that is in the owners manual. let me explain it with a similar situation. i have collected 380 movies and made a complete listing by name and actor. now i have found that i can view some of the movies and hardly remember seeing them before. the secrete is keep adding movies and age until you have reached the ultimate conditioning of being able to enjoy a movie any time you want to. do you suppose you can read the owners manual and forget some of the things that it contains due to the shear vast amount of the information coupled with age no body is getting younger you know. - bill p. just think bill.... eventually youll be able to watch a new to you episode of star trek every day!! *g* mac please remove splinters before emailing .
From : nosey
nosey wrote are you sure it is gelled from the cold and not microbial contamination it doesnt happen often but when it does its a nasty clean up job. so you are saying those tiny little black stringy worm looking things in the fuel filter is a bad sign ;^ after nearly 20 years of looking at fuel samples i have never seen microbiological contamination. ive seen cloudy fuel and fuel with lots of free water in the bottom of the sample jar but never anything living. why didnt dodge put low point drains on our fuel tanks anyway they want the water drained from the fuel filter at every fuel stop but there is no provision to drain the water from the tank. i think your thinking about a algae contamination which is similar to a fungus contamination of diesel but which is more a white looking mucus that resembles gelled fuel instead of the green or brown/black algae. it kind of looks like a jelly fish that washed up on the beach. there are dozens of these kind of little bugs if you will and they live off the fuel while getting their oxygen from the water in the fuel. ive never seen it in a vehicle before mostly because truck/car fuel is pretty much kept water free. but i once had it happen to a ships cargo tank that held a little over 500000 gallons of jp5. i ended up stripping out about a 100000 gallons of fuel plus having to go through about a dozen sets of coalescer filter sets. most people have never heard of this stuff but you get a tank loaded with water and dont clean it out good you run the risk of this contamination. out of the hundreds of millions of gallons of dfm and jp5 that i loaded stowed cleaned and pumped in the 6 years as fuels cargo officer on two aors i ran into this problem only once. but like i said it was a nasty one....... jerry .