infamous "no bus" problem ....has me Lost, Confused,Disoriented, & I do not know which way to go!!

From : marsh monster

Q: on sun 26 nov 2006 124353 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote on sun 26 nov 2006 112327 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote ok. so todays big learning experience is that the 12v truck fridge pulls power even with the switches are all off. so i had a very dead truck this afternoon 2001 dak. no worries i have a very helpful neighbor with one of those portable jumper boxes. gotta get me one of those! now heres the weirdness. get the truck running but each time i take my foot off the gas it dies straight off. every time. since it ran perfect yesterday we were trying to sort out why the alternator would die suddenly and without warning. however after we unhooked the jumper box the truck would remain running normally. its fine now... is the truck computer smart enough to know the batterys being jumped and disable the alternator why thanks for any eddication anyone can provide. jmc. its 8pm and just under 100f. ick. its common on dodge trucks and vehicals with the old 3.0l engine for it to not idle if the battery was dead or even after it was replaced. for lack of a better way of explaining this the pcm will loose memory of where idle should be and it needs to relearn it. usually you just need to keep your foot on the pedal and drive around the block and itd be ok. as for why your battery went dead im not even gonna guess. either your battery is going south or you got a drain on the electrical system somewhere. denny gee do you suppose the refrigerator mentioned would provide that drain beekeep i guess im just stupid i didnt even see the fridge part. duh!! denny maybe you had taking a nap on your mind after all it was a westinghouse. beekeep .

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From : joe brophy

trent please explain to me why combusted through heat and compression is the opposite of neeing to be vaporized. ive read a web page on diesels but i still dont get what you meant. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. in order to get either fuel to combust it has to first be vaporized. in a gas engine its ignited by spark. and in a diesel by compression. but both fuels have to be vaporized to work. gasoline is a lot easier vaporized and so id expect problems with early ignition and who knows what else. cylinder damage. i dont believe that combusted through heat and compression is the opposite of neeing to be vaporized. diesel also needs to be vaporized. no. diesel is sprayed into a fine mist combined with air to be compressed. sorta like wheat or rice in a processing plant. the individual pieces of rice or wheat does not burn very well but once processing starts and makes a lot of dust combined with air makes a very volatile product. gasoline is heated into a vapor. that is why in the good ol days that gasoline engines did not work well when cold. the gasoline was not being vaporiaed very well. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. . it means adding gasoline to diesel vehicle makes the fuel less combustable under compression. diesel is combusted through heat and compression while gasoline is the opposite needing to be in a vapor to get better ignition. diesel has cetane while gasoline has octane. those products are inversive to each other. .