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Started by herm, March 10, 2010, 01:55:38 PM

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ducpainter

#15
March 11, 2010, 03:08:40 AM
Quote from: ZLTFUL on March 03, 2010, 06:35:08 AM
I got that covered...
I'm a certified Diesel mecanic,<snip>
PM maybe?
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Bun-bun

#16
March 11, 2010, 04:27:31 AM
Quote from: herm (not herb) on March 11, 2010, 02:39:39 AM
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is that because you dont have a diesel? or because it uses direct rail injection? my truck does not actually have glow plugs either....uses some kind of injectors....but its hard to refer to them as anything but glow plugs.
No, it's a diesel. It uses a heated wire grid in the intake plenum instead of glowplugs.

I think you're confusing glowplugs and injectors.
Glowplugs preheat the incoming fuel charge when the engine is cold, assisting in the combustion process. Think of them as sparkplugs.
Injectors spray the fuel into the cylinders under pressure.
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ducpainter

#17
March 11, 2010, 04:36:28 AM
Quote from: Bun-bun on March 11, 2010, 04:27:31 AM
No, it's a diesel. It uses a heated wire grid in the intake plenum instead of glowplugs.
<snip>
My 50 year old tractor has a small element in the intake that fuel drips onto and theoretically vaporizes making start up easier much like your wire grid.

I hope your system works better than that old Massey's.   [laugh]
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    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
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MendoDave

#18
March 11, 2010, 05:24:23 AM
Quote from: Bun-bun on March 10, 2010, 06:37:23 PM
Be glad you got the life out of them that you did. Neighbor had to replace theirs at 3800 (Yes, hundred) miles after buying their new powersmoke in '07. Had to replace them again this year at 67xxx miles.
I haven't had any problems with glowplugs in my '97 Dodge Cummins at all.



















'cause it ain't got none!


I concur with the 97 Dodge Cummins. Sell the Ford and get a Dodge. Plus there is way more room under the hood with the inline six design. The newer Dodges have twice as many valves and you can get a compression release with them. [thumbsup]

herm

#19
March 11, 2010, 09:24:37 AM
Quote from: D Paoli on March 11, 2010, 05:24:23 AM

I concur with the 97 Dodge Cummins. Sell the Ford and get a Dodge. Plus there is way more room under the hood with the inline six design. The newer Dodges have twice as many valves and you can get a compression release with them. [thumbsup]

well,....

IF i was going to sell my truck, probably would not buy another one so big, even if it meant getting rid of my trailer. so wouldnt need the diesel. but i will drive it into the ground, or the poor house, whichever comes first.
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herm

#20
March 11, 2010, 09:29:23 AM
If you drive the nicest car in the neighborhood, work in a cash business, and don't pay taxes, you're either a preacher or a drug dealer...

Howie

#21
March 11, 2010, 06:34:11 PM
You do indeed have glow plugs.

Bun-bun

#22
March 11, 2010, 06:52:38 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 11, 2010, 04:36:28 AM
My 50 year old tractor has a small element in the intake that fuel drips onto and theoretically vaporizes making start up easier much like your wire grid.

I hope your system works better than that old Massey's.   [laugh]
The Cummins uses battery voltage to heat the wires, just like a space heater, and heats the incoming charge of air. It works fine as long as you have adequate charge in your batteries.

That old Massey sounds like an explosion waiting to happen.

And I'm with Herm. I'll probably die before it does, but even so, when I die, bury me in my Dodge.
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#23
March 11, 2010, 06:55:02 PM
Quote from: Bun-bun on March 11, 2010, 06:52:38 PM
And I'm with Herm. I'll probably die before it does, but even so, when I die, bury me in my Dodge.

Sure-just give me the keys  ;)
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ducpainter

#24
March 12, 2010, 02:28:13 AM
Quote from: Bun-bun on March 11, 2010, 06:52:38 PM
The Cummins uses battery voltage to heat the wires, just like a space heater, and heats the incoming charge of air. It works fine as long as you have adequate charge in your batteries.

That old Massey sounds like an explosion waiting to happen.

And I'm with Herm. I'll probably die before it does, but even so, when I die, bury me in my Dodge.
What could go wrong? ;D
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 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
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    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


rgramjet

#25
March 12, 2010, 06:23:27 PM
Quick threadjack.

Duramax, Powerstroke or Cummins, which one and why?

Im looking at a 2500HD.  Love the quiet powerplant as opposed to the charter boat-like Powerstrokes that I've been around....
thx for the jack!
Quote from: ducpainter on May 20, 2010, 02:11:47 PM
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ducpainter

#26
March 12, 2010, 06:29:07 PM
Quote from: rgramjet on March 12, 2010, 06:23:27 PM
Quick threadjack.

Duramax, Powerstroke or Cummins, which one and why?

Im looking at a 2500HD.  Love the quiet powerplant as opposed to the charter boat-like Powerstrokes that I've been around....
thx for the jack!
The Cummins...

in anything but a Dodge. ;)

Why...?

A diesel should be an inline engine.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


Popeye the Sailor

#27
March 12, 2010, 06:31:14 PM
I'd argue Cummins makes a better diesel, though I've never actually spec'ed anything out.


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lethe

#28
March 12, 2010, 06:31:45 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 12, 2010, 06:29:07 PM
The Cummins...

in anything but a Dodge. ;)

Why...?

A diesel should be an inline engine.
So not the wonderful GM ones made from the Olds 350s back in the early 80's?  [laugh]
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rgramjet

#29
March 12, 2010, 06:45:30 PM
Why?
Quote from: ducpainter on May 20, 2010, 02:11:47 PM
You're obviously a crack smokin' redneck carpenter. :-*

in 1st and 2nd it was like this; ringy-ting-ting-ting slow boring ho-hum .......oh!........OMG! What the fu.........HOLY SHIT !!--ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
-Sofadriver

What has been smelled, cannot be unsmelled!
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