I switched to Dodge Cummings after driving Fords for over 25 years (never left me stranded). My 2006 has left me stranded twice now. First, last year an injector froze open shutting the engine down. This week it left me caught in an intersection when it died. This time the high pressure fuel line to the 4th cylinder split.

Am I being overly concerned? I am wondering about the quality of the Dodge.

 

It's hard to take you seriously when you don't even spell Cummins properly. Maybe you should go back to driving Fords.

 

Not sure how an injector freezing open could shut down an engine, But the 5.9L CUMMINS is the most reliable diesel engine ever....

 

I thought this was a discussion forum. Evidently not. If someone is going to get ridiculed and blasted for venting with fellow members and spelling a word wrong, which I am sure you have never done, correct, why have forums?

I switched from Ford because they changed the dependable 7.3 Powerstroke. I knew the 2 best engines out there were the 7.3 and the 5.9 Cummins (did I spell it right?) My Ford was 12 years old when I sold it so I could get the last 5.9 before they changed that too.

My intent was asking if the outages I had were either common or not. The injector sticking, OK, that could be explained. But a fuel line splitting, would you consider that common?

Disappointed in forums...

 

The #4 is the most common one to have problems with.

It's not so much the line itself, as it is the retainer that secures it. When you look where the lines runs to the head, there are those retainers with the blue plastic pieces securing the lines.

For some reason, the #4 tends to be loose and this lets the line pulse under the pressure and it eventually splits the line.

Now, the injectors......

The early '06's had some injector issues and they came out with a new design to replace them. If yours is an early '06, that might explain that.

 

Thank you for that explanation.

They did replace all the injectors when they towed me in. Hope that takes care of that.

You are exactly right. It was the #4 fuel line. Is this something that could happen on a sporadic basis?

I want to run this by you as well. When they towed my truck in for the fuel line this week, the service rep said they might have trouble or take some time to get the part. They lead me to believe that with the Chrysler bankruptcy, they were having or going to have trouble getting parts.

Any news or opinions?

Thank you again for taking to time to help me!

 

More than likely you won't have that issue again.

If they replaced all the injectors, I'd be assuming that you had the older style and, more than likely, a few other were on their way out.

Once that retainer has been properly tightened, it's usually no issue. I'm not sure what the inital issue was with it, but it always seems to stem from that #4 retainer.

Check the retainers every once in a while. If you think one is loose or you hear a ticking noise under the hood, let the engine idle, pop the hood and grab onto each of the high pressure fuel lines. If you grab onto it and the noise / vibration stops, more than likely the retainer needs to be tightened.

 

Thank you for the information. It is a pleasure talking (so to speak) to you.

I was hoping you or someone might give me your opinion on getting Chrysler parts now or in the future based on what the service rep referred to.

I can't see that any company would let the Dodge Ram Cummins go under.

 

Parts are READILY available, especially on the engine and trans side of the house. There are so many choices for parts there it can actually be difficult to decide.

Axles.....those tend to be a bit of a pain to find parts for, but they're pretty much bullet proof.

As for the rest of the truck, I don't think you'll have problems with parts for quite a while.