Are my injectors going bad?
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07-09-2011, 09:20 AM
I own a 2003 5.9 ram3500 I recently bought it and a 40 ft trailer to haul hot shot loads. I love the truck,the tork, my truck has 130,000 miles I noticed a growl in the manual 6 speed trans. now it growls in every gear except 5 the fluid level was good. Is this a transmisson that can be fixed with bearings?and a good book or to complicated for a little better than average do it yourselfer? thanks for your time
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07-22-2011, 11:13 PM
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I recently bought a 2005 3500 4x4 with the 5.9l. it gets great milage and doesn't have any probles starting up. 4x4 works great, it has 143,000mi on it and just had a new transmission put in it less than 1000mi ago along with new tires. The guy had sold it for his son who left for vet school and said his son did all of the maintenance on time and becuase it was so clean and everyrthing including all of the fluids checked out that I could see, I bought it for 16k and thought i got a good deal on it.
I noticed a few days after buying it that if i rev the rpms up, it will temporarily hang, followed by staggering back to its idling rpm range. I have never owned a diesel before and i wasn't sure if this was a unique quality to expect out of a diesel.
I took it to Truck Stop Performance in San Antonio, and they told me that because it hangs like it does, i am gonna need new injectors. the previous owner had given me a quadzilla stealth tuner that he said his son had used for better fuel economy. It wasn't modified in any other way, other than a K&N and so i didn't have any particualr reason to think he was using it for pulls or goofing off. The mechanic said that they can be particularly hard on the high pressure common rail and that it likely damaged the injectors and i need to get them along with an airdog.
It runs fin never stalls, no smoke, no hard starts, but i fear that i might have bought a truck with an expensive problem. should I take it to a dealer? is there any specific diagnostics to check out if it's just one particular injector? please give me peace of mind.
I noticed a few days after buying it that if i rev the rpms up, it will temporarily hang, followed by staggering back to its idling rpm range. I have never owned a diesel before and i wasn't sure if this was a unique quality to expect out of a diesel.
I took it to Truck Stop Performance in San Antonio, and they told me that because it hangs like it does, i am gonna need new injectors. the previous owner had given me a quadzilla stealth tuner that he said his son had used for better fuel economy. It wasn't modified in any other way, other than a K&N and so i didn't have any particualr reason to think he was using it for pulls or goofing off. The mechanic said that they can be particularly hard on the high pressure common rail and that it likely damaged the injectors and i need to get them along with an airdog.
It runs fin never stalls, no smoke, no hard starts, but i fear that i might have bought a truck with an expensive problem. should I take it to a dealer? is there any specific diagnostics to check out if it's just one particular injector? please give me peace of mind.
Alot of what you had is what my truck was doing. I have an 06 2500. but it did smoke with heavy throttle. i finally saved up the money and had all 6 injectors replaced and i also found out my lift pump was only putting out 3psi. after 3 days w/o my truck i am happy to say it runs awesome!!!
It is quiter, gets better fuel mileage (went from 10 to 16 on highway) and the throttle doesnt hang.
not only did i have to replace the injectors there had to 2 fuel tubes replaced. apparently the last person that made repairs installed them wrong. the shop that made the repairs now is not sure how they managed to screw it up as there are 2 alignment *****.
couldnt be happier and if your in WI i would strongly recommend the company that did the work i my truck. i am very happy. so far i have put a hundred miles on and all of it was with the radio off because i love how the engine sounds, espically with the turbo whistle. before this work was done, i didnt realize how loud the engine was.