cornbinder89 wrote:Lift pump or filter?
I have not been outside to the shop today. I have a suspicion the fuel gauge is not showing correctly. The odometer reset has a suspiciously large number of kilometers showing for the position of the fuel gauge pointer. The RAM may have run out of fuel. I shut down ASAP and coasted to the next safe pull-off. These VP44 pumps do not tolerate fuel starvaion very well or for very long.
I replaced the Carter 4601
https://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/ ... /overview/ with a DDRP lift pump several years ago.
http://www.thoroughbreddiesel.com/fass/DDRP.htm I have more confidence in the DDRP, but failure is still possible. The fuel filter was replaced last summer.
I forgot to replace the fuel last fall. I may have to loosen one or more fuel lines at the injectors to dump air that may have entered the system. The Daimler Chrysler shop manual has restart procedure for filter and out of fuel situations .If I still have a no-start, I will call Mundie's Towing and have the truck dropped at NW Fuelinjection in Port Kells. This Cummins has about one half million kilometers on this VP44 pump, so, it may be a typical failure point.
I do not have any plans to go anywhere today, but being crippled by knowing that my main source of getting aroud is not an option is not a good feeling.
The tow truck that got my truck and me home is a 2017 Ram 4500 dually, Cummins automatic. This RAM has some kind of compression braking. When activated the transmission changes to the correct gear and it appears the locking torque-converter locks up. On the steepist hill we had to go down, the engine braking system was able to hold back about 6500 kg total load to 30 kmh without adding wheel brakes.
While I really like the new RAM Diesel, and we can afford to buy one, the "other half" will not likely be including a replacement to deplete our savings by $50,000. We do not finance anything.