i have a suggestion. when you gonna start on my truck ha.

 

May be a future hobby, but we are going to figure out the complete stock look first. Have to get these darn gauges working....

 

Bump for exposure. I have a thought that the cam sensor reading a seperate pulse is leading to tach loss. Maybe need to only cut half of the notch depth on the six we added and mount a sensor on the outer edge of the balancer. This would show 8 pulses per revolution to the crank and two pulses per revolution to the cam sensor.

 

Bump again. We started again tonight and the tach read for 20 minutes until we shut it off. Then the tach did not restart. The ASD is doing fine, staying live and and not shutting it off at all.

The tach is irratic at anything above 750rpm but that might be due to my custom notches not being deep enough.

 

Wow. Nobody?

 

There are more Diesel guys over on dodge talk .com. You might try that out.

 

Headed that way. Thanks.

 

I still think I'd use the computer and gauge cluster from a CTD donor truck. The cluster is a key component because of just how much it actually does to control the truck's operation. If you haven't already, read the shop manual section on the gauges. There's a lot going on in what used to be just some needles & lights.

FWIW, your swap would be just as hard if you'd tried to put a Hemi in there. It's just so difficult to swap engines in these trucks -- the engine control setup is far too complicated for what it actually does.

 

Ditto...I was not expecting to see a RCSB, that thing is just going to be sweet.

As for the gauges and PCM tuning Im with everyone else on this, go pull everything you can out of a donor CTD truck, gauges/wiring harness/etc. It will still "look" stock on the inside and will probably save you a bit of time and effort trying to wire everything together.

Good luck man, cant wait to see/hear that thing rip down the street.

 

a stock tach reads to 7k? and a diesel redlines at 4k?... the tach is going to barely move... it would be much better with a tach that doesnt read so high too... just a thought...