Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) CHECK THOSE Heater grid wires!!

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Well while working on the rig today (And yesterday) I had the intake and fuel canister off as I replaced the fuel system to -8an with a PE4300 pump. While doing so I happened to move the heater grid wires to get my ratchet out and there I saw it! Not only was the injector line polished to a mirror like finish but the heater grid wires were worn down pretty good. Now picture that will ya arced out with tremendous heat and post Vp44 fuel pressure Fireball city. Kids I cant stress it enough as that can ruin your day quickly. Easy to inspect and can save your Arse.

 

[Bigsaint]

Ah, another PE user . Good advice Toolman, I'll have to chceck mine asap.



Scott W.

 

[MCummings]

Save yourself the worries and just remove your grid heaters.



It'll still start. It just won't be happy about it



The coldest it gets here in my town is 32*F, right now it's about 85*F so the absence of grid heaters is not a problem here.



Merrick Cummings Jr

 

[Batman]

Hey Merrick... ... ... that's not good advise for up here in New England... ... ..... tonights frost advisory... ... ... ... down to -25 F..... with wind chill... ... ..... don't thin the truck would like that at all:{

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Golfers

. . . and here it feels darn cold to me in the 40s and think the diehards I see out on the golf course I pass every day are crazy





Vaughn

 

[MCummings]

Batman,,



That would be right.



Cummins sells a replacement "block" that will replace your grid heaters,, that way you could remove the heaters in the summer, and have them back in for the winter. For me, I was looking at this, but instead got real bored on a Sunday after Church. I just, um, non-surgicaly took them out.



I removed the intake horn, then proceeded to un-bolt everything related to the grid heaters,, once I had the heaters in my hand I just, shall we say,, "Tore them out". The final outcome was clean, but the methods used were primitave.

 

[StakeMan]

Check the ground wire for the grid heaters too. I had an intermitent cold start condition. Traced it back to the ground wire. Bombed grid heater wires.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Originally posted by MCummings

I just, shall we say,, "Tore them out". The final outcome was clean, but the methods used were primitave.

:-laf :-laf :-laf



Yep Scott , -8An and PE 4200 SCHWEET!