starting problem 1999 ram cummins diesel Thanks Roy and SnoMan!

From : Annonymous

Q: got it back on level ground cracked a couple injector connections and cranked on it. started up without too much more ado. im still a little perplexed as the lift pump just seems to crank out the juice and pressurizes right up to 15psi but am thinking about an aftermarket pump mounted low on the frame back near the tank just to make sure. i appreciate the responses! if you are getting 15lbs. out of the lift pump i doubt that it is the problem. what does it show with a load and at idle .

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From : roy

azwiley1 wrote my first silver star burnout came after just one year and i hardly used them. there used to be a chart somewhere i think on sylvanias own site that listed life expectancy of their various bulbs. the silver stars hours were much less than xtravision or any of the other bulbs.i believe you are correct.... it seems i also saw somewhere that sylvania warns you that the silverstars arent as long lived as their other bulbs but four years aint bad for the extra light output. four years for lights that were almost always on is something that i would not complain about. i hated that damn auto daytime running light set up on the silvy but at least on mine when you disable it by removing the bulb it turns your heads on all the time. they have been great for me love the fact that i can see very well at night in the desert so i wont change. excerpts from daniel sterns blue bulb page the cost bulb lifetime. the filament changes made to produce enough extra light that the bulb will still be legal despite the blue-filtration losses mean the filaments lifespan is shortened considerably. the sylvania silverstar bulbs have a very short lifetime because the filament is overdriven to get a legal amount of light despite the blue glass. i think my light circuit upgrade with relays and shorter heavier wires routed more directly from battery to bulbs did away with a lot of voltage loss present in the stock circuit. the overdriven silver stars wont live long under full power but i would never have known with the stock wiring. id just be impressed that my voltage-starved silver stars were shining noticeably brighter than my voltage-starved stock bulbs did. since the upgrade the xtravisions have already surpassed the poor silver stars meager lifetime. and the trucks original 6-year-old 9004 bulbs are doing fine as inboard high beams. .