When i bought my Dodge i figured it would save me some money , diesel was less then gas , they got better mileage. .BUT not long after i got my 95 Fuel prices started up and Oh wait i was ot getting the mileage that everyone was claiming . Hummm something is wrong here ,so since i was not up on the 5.9 Cummins i went up to the Cummins storeand had a long chat with the service manager who i have knowen for years and Bobby took me on a tour of the 5.9 as they had several scattered across a couple benches and some talk with a couple of the guys that worked on them. Bobby then ran the engine S/N and found that oh wait it had never been PUT IN SERVICE . What that means and NOT uncommon for the ones in Dodge trucks is that it has never come back in to either a Cummins shop or back to the dealer to have the after break in check up and setting reset . Mine since it was USED and 25000 miles past the FREE BE the cost of them to do it could get really expensive really fast now. Bobby then said why aske me to do it when your darn good at working on the big Cummins DIY it by the Snap On 5.9 tool Kit and go for it and i will give you all the spec.s ya need and knowing you you will be in the pump so lets go have a talk with the pump guy . So i dug into doing it and what i found was valves way out of adjustment . A.F.C. set way to tight Fuel plate choked off and when done i gained five MPG faster throttle response and far better performance in the hills . and that was great . Now as to how well it would pull a trailer we never got that far as i never got the flat bed i was building for it done when the farm economy went to the out house . So i just left the uglybox on the back and used it as a service truck . Also what i can tell you is my truck plum sucks out on the big road on a trip and the box kills fuel mileage . Out on the open road tryen to run just the speed limits at around 72 -75 she is at factory gov. max and now with the low sulfur fuel she get 14 to 15 mpg . Partly due to the BOX and the 4.10 gear . Now my old 88 Ford with the 460 with the 4.10 it would avg 14-15 out on the open road empty truck or even with and empty trailer . With it when i had the trailer on i never used overdrive and the 460 had a sweet spot between 2850 and 3400 rpm , the cummins at the sweet spot even in O D is a turtle crawl as that is 1950 down to around 1450 and flat out 2550 gov run out STOCK . Here gas the other day was 2.69.9 and diesel was 5.05.9 . Now my 88 460 was NOT stock so to speak as i did change cam timing back to what the 1969-71 385 block engines ran for cam timing and i was running a 92 model year ECM with a total advance ing timing of 36 degrees at 2000RPM . When the truck stayed running she ran great BUT she lived up to the fix or repair daily . Now would i go back to Gas , yep if i could get a 460 and we could get rid of the GREMLINS and jump up atleast one size bigger in the U/Joint dept. NO i don't want one of these new small Cu. In. high RPM turbo charged things they are shoven down our throats and no i don't want a slush box for a transmission controlled by a computer .
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