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I'm tired of removing my cold-air kit every time I change the oil-filter so I want to install a dual-filtration (regular & bypass) remote kit. Questions directed toward young and/or old-hands out there with some past experience in this area, include: 1) Should I stick with an established...

I've read most of the posts on this topic and nobody has posted a video, so here's mine. Jump to '38 seconds' to see the CEL/MIL lights & RPM swing. Recap: It's a 5 year old, BD trans with 50k on it (serviced yearly including band adjustments & Amsoil trans fluid) I'm taking it to Competition...

Just got the truck back from the diesel shop after a trans service, FASS service & misc. repairs. They performed an injector-balance test and here's the results. #1 = 99% #2 = 102% #3 = 100% #4 = 111% #5 = 99% #6 = 89% Does this seem 'typical' for reman BBI's with 50'k miles on them? 2 years...

About 10 years ago I installed LED rear tail light assemblies in my 2004.5 Ram. They've been great until last week when the mounts on the drivers-side broke and I saw the light dangling behind my truck in the rear-view mirror. So I ordered new rear light assemblies from Amazon and the next night...

As my previous posts over the past several years indicate, I had a local shop rebuild my 5.9 from the ground up Sept. 2018 and 30k ago (see parts list below). The engine was rebuilt at 225k and now has 255k. It smokes on take-off but thins when once I get going. Just had it smogged last week...

I'm looking for a referral to someone or a company that can provide me with some 'tunes' for my 2004.5 My usual diesel repair shop here in town has a dyno and can build custom-tunes but only EFI-live devices. Any suggestions?

I got under the hood this morning to check the engine oil level and found the bracket that holds the dipstick tube to the GDP intake manifold had cracked all the way through and broken leaving the dipstick tube unsecured. I know I could weld it but I'd like to put an aftermarket billet style...

I've heard some TDR members talk about reprogramming their grid-heater's so they turn on at a lower temperature. I just ran to Home-D and it's 60 degree's out (cold engine /first time started today) and the grid heater was cycling as if it was 'cold-out'. How do I reprogram my GH's so they...

After experiencing wildly fluctuating alternator voltage issues, I took my truck back to the shop that rebuilt the motor last year and had them trouble shoot it. They said one of the Costco batteries had a bad cell (pass-side) and the ECM was bad. The alternator is original OEM (2004.5) and...

When we tore down the 5.9 in my 2004.5 last year, I noticed that all the tappets were cracked. I can't find any of them now to show a photo, but what I saw was was a small circular-crack on the 'contact-face' of the tappet directly under the 'stem'... and there were straight-line cracks running...

I took my 2004.5 back to the shop that rebuilt the 5.9 earlier this year, for a leaky oil-drain tube & heater hose and while they had it I told them to install a new MM3 from Smarty and a Quad boost-fooler. I'm using the engine & trans tunes from Diesel Camper (Rob). Got the truck back and...

We have several 2004 Dodge Ram's (1500, 2500 etc) and all have the same map-light broken switch problem. I've searched on-line and can only find a replacement switch-harness for 1999-2001 trucks or loose Dorman switches that could be spliced-in to replace the broken switches. I ran across one...

Anyone running a 2003-2005 Ram 2500, install a JDM ASTAR 2600 lumen 3057 LED back up light bulb in their truck's rear tail light assembly, and 1) is it brighter and 2) did you need to put a resistor in for it to work properly?

My last 'working' remote-fob disappeared during the 3 years my 2004.5 Ram sat waiting for a 5.9 rebuild. Now that I have a fresh engine & trans installed....I can't find my last 'working' remote-fob...although I do have 5 or 6 spare keys. Is there a way to program a new remote-fob....without...

I didn't realize how bad my mirrors had gotten until I had my passengers door mirror torn-off by a passing truck with tow-mirrors fully extended...using them as a feeler-gauge rather than a mirror. After the dealer replace the passenger-side mirror, I noticed how 'wiggly' my drivers mirror had...

Have any of you guys used the BT1 OBDII device...paired to an Iphone or IPad? What is/was your experience. If you lost your present BT1 device (blame it on one of the grand-kids with sticky-fingers) and had to buy another one....Would you buy this one again or get a different one? Inquiring...

As you can see in my 'sig' my truck is a 2004.5 that I've owned since new. I had it re-flashed once on 6-30-06 by the dealer. The tech put a sticker on top of the radiator core-support with two numbers. The first is 45051 and the second is PN#20325253ai. I've got 197,000 on the truck now and...

With 180K+ miles on the engine, The Cummins is leaking oil past the turbo journal bearings and into the motor and I'm burning about a quart every 3-4 days. I've got a local shop in Vegas that's going to pull and rebuild the turbo, so I need to find a 'good' rebuild kit. Geno's doesn't carry such...

So... I walk into my friendly neighborhood Chrysler/Dodge dealership parts-depo yesterday and ask for a MAP sensor (part#5139278AA) and they say they don't have one but the dealership on the other side of the valley does. Before I can tell him to grab the phone and double-check that they do...