Heeellllp!!!!!

[R Anestis]

I don't have a service or even an owner's manual for my truck and I need to know where the fuel prescreen is. It's been cutting out on hills and getting steadily worse. I just changed the fuel filter 'cause I thought that would be the problem. I tried running fuel additives to get rid of any possible water, and got no results. I'm hoping its not the lift pump, but considering that its getting worse, I guess it could be. I haven't got a guage in it yet, so I don't know what the pressure is. Anyway, the prescreen is one step in front of getting a new lift pump. Thanks for any help.

-Ron

 

[C1B1DIESEL]

Im not sure if there is a pre screen in the fuel tank.

The first check that I would do is check your fuel pressure, and maybe check for restriction. restriction check would let you now if you had a plugged screen. spec, is 6 in hg of fuel restriction.



I would bet that the fuel pump has gone south.



Good luck

 

[Evan A. Beck]

There are two screens on the 24V trucks--one in the tank, and one at the inlet side of the lift pump. BOTH are a pain to clean.



Chances are, your lift pump is going out... Get one at Cummins where they are cheap, NOT at Dodge where they charge $399.

 

[KDRABIK]

Ron-



Sorry to hear about your performance woes. I too have been dealing with the same problem, but thanks to Steve St. Laurent, President of the Great Lakes TDR, he has given me a lot of insight into the matter. I agree with Evan about the lift pump, but before you do any major repairs/replacements, purchase a fuel pressure gauge!!!! Steve and Tom Meers (briarhopper) have been helping me with the set-up and I'm sure will be more than happy to assist you also. After replacing the fuel filter 2X in the past 2months and checking for bad fuel and air leaks, I am pretty sure the lift pump is the culprit. But, I won't know for sure until the gauge goes in! Do a search regarding lift pumps and you will find a ton of stuff on the subject--especially a post by Steve regarding his pusher lift pump installation. Very informative.



Regards, Keith

 

[EMDDIESEL]

I ordered the Pusher pump kit from Enterprise too after reading Steves posts and talking to ToolManTimTaylor. It SHOULD be here any day. I am not having problems now, but i dont want to wait till i do

 

[R Anestis]

Thanks for the info. Here's some more questions for anyone who knows answers to them: Shouldn't a new pump be covered by the warranty? And would doing the swap out myself void the warranty? And, would installing the pusher pump from enterprise void it as well?

 

[Tom W]

The lift (transfer) pump is covered under the emissions warranty up to 100K miles. I had mine replaced about 20K miles ago and it works fine. 13 - 14 lbs normal, drops to 12 at WOT.

Tom

 

[JSoloman]

Is this lift pump problem Dodge or Cummins? and is it all that common... in other words, is it something I have to look forward to?

 

[R Anestis]

I don't know wether its a Dodge or a Cummins problem, but you might as well expect it. Those things just aren't made to last. You can get the "pusher pump" mentioned above that's supposed to remedy the problem.

-Ron

 

[Ram_Kowboy]

I have never had any lift pump problems. Seems to me it is more common on the 00/01 trucks.

 

[R Anestis]

Hey Ram Kowboy, That's because the lift pump problems are only commonplace on the 24 valves.

 

[JSoloman]

Hey guys,



Lets go one step further... . sure it'd be nice if pump is covered under warranty, but if this is a chronic problem of the 24V, why the heck isn't there a recall on it? Geez, I didn't buy a Cummins to have the darn think start falling apart.

 

[DarrellB]

Good question, I wouldn't mind knowing that one myself since I'm waiting on my new lift pump.





Later

Big D