I was just wondering because a lot of people on here make posts on their problems but when they find the cure to the issue they never post back on how they found the cure.
If you do that then you maybe buying someone else's problems. Like what it sounds like you have already done with this truck. I would look into how much it would cost to do the repair and do it yourself, if you're not real confident then buy some beers and have some people come over that know...
The new one probably wasnt programmed to your truck, that's more than likely why it wasn't communicating. On the new trucks if you replace the pcm you have to take the truck to someone that can program the pcm to every drivetrain related system on your truck otherwise everything gets confused...
The murphys gas station local to my hometown is not a truck stop but i often see semis dump trucks and diesel pickups fill up there so i prefer there. If not then theres another gas station in my town that is the home base of a semi truck company and I use them as well
Get your fuel from places that fill there in ground tanks often 10 times out of 10 they'll have the best fuel. It doesn't have to be a truck stop necessarily but a place where you see any kind of diesel vehicle fill up at quite often
That is not a regulated return system that is a fuel lift pump that helps get the fuel from the tank so the regular fuel pump doesn't strain as much when you go wot and demand more fuel from the pump (well that's my theory anyway on why they sell these products but I do know for sure that it...
Also while you have the engine out you want to go ahead and take a look at the flywheel and clutch/torque converter. If you have a manual transmission go ahead and replace the clutch while you have the motor unless you know for sure that the clutch is still good. Because it is a pain to do it...
What happened to your original motor? Depending on how it went you could buy the takeout and check compression on it look for any obvious leaks and damage and check the condition of the main engine harness, and install it in your truck for now and then while you have the original out of the...
You could buy a newer truck but it all depends on how the previous owner or owners took care of it. That's one of the problems I'm running into with mine when I got my truck it had 166k miles on it but it had blowby even then which tells me the previous owners did not take care of it at all...