Recent content by SeanPwnery

Oddly enough... the 3-liter Powerstroke is basically our engine with wider rod and mains. Honestly - I think your due-diligence will pay off. The bearing size was never the issue, the EPA meddling is what ruined the reputations of these. I know people in Europe who have run these for over a...

A proper delete with the corresponding tune simply deletes ALL of the PCM parameters for the DEF injection system. I'm "halfway" deleted so far, but will be doing the full enchilada in about two weeks time. I purchased a tune that had an "EGR off" tune and an "EGR off, DEF off" tune too. I...

Just a thought... the saying "The aftermarket provides" seems to have walked right past our little pasta-diesels when it came to these valves. Dodge wants 300 for a piece of plastic with a 6-pin sensor... kinda bonkers. The aftermarket options are 60 dollars or less, but ... as things have...

I played that video 4 times, I couldn't hear anything strange... maybe a little something "whiny" in there, but nothing shockingly out of place... maybe it's just my ears?

These engines have achilles heels - the biggest one is the oiling system - many which are neglected by people who never had to deal with diesel engine maintenance. The biggest problems I've encountered is TIPM failures (which has happened so often on this side of the pond that the cost to...

Hrm... these little pasta-diesels typically run oil temps around 200-230 on the regular, at least that's what I've gathered around here. If the coolant temp gauge is hitting 3/4 though... that's a bit of a worry. If you know anybody with a scanner that can give you real-time readings, maybe have...

What's the temperature creeping up "To" ? If memory serves, the fan relay works with the sensors, but the AC sort of overrides it - at least in most vehicles I've ever dealt with. Tried playing musical relays with the fan relay?

I've done two in 11 months .. each time I pull the old one, the valve itself looks fine so I'm chalking it up to a sub-par sensor inside it.

Unplug the sensors on the bumper. If memory serves, there's a master connector on the driver's side for both the front and rear ones. I actually had to pull mine off to "lengthen" them with my aftermarket bumpers. If you're getting faults because of moisture *in* the connector, just clean them...

I think the bigger question is did you come from a diesel background before this truck? I too had similar concerns when I first got mine, but as I got more and more familiar with this particular engine, and a few 6BT's and IDI's before that, I realized these are very different animals compared...

These valves are garbage - the sensor in them mostly. I've done two in 11 months. If they're going to fail that often, then let the aftermarket cheapie-ones provide. I'm sick of dealership fleecing for little return. My last valve was 60 bucks.

I seriously doubt FCA gets ANY recommendations from the Germans about their transmissions - I pulled my pan at around 120k and found plenty of wear debris to warrant the trans service and fresh fluid. Everyone has their own acceptable tolerance to wear - but we're driving ticking timebombs in...

Small update... no clue what the deal was, but the new socket works 100% fine now. It's almost as if the new one joined the neighborhood and the truck was like "oh? New neighbor... okay then..." :ROFLMAO:

I recently did it on mine. Coming from a BMW background, the "lifetime" fluid to me is somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-100k depending on how it's driven. The ZF service is super easy. Feel free to take a look at how I did it along with a pan upgrade.

Welcome by the way. When you say it won't start - what's it doing? No crank at all? Stuck cranking constantly until he flips the key to the off position? Can he hear the lift pump with the key to the "on" position, but not the "start" one? I'm not 100% on if what happened to mine is common...