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Dodge Cummins Questions 94-98?

Johnny Longrifle said:
Making power with the 12 valve is literally hammer and chisel simple. Spend some money on fuel and air and you can really wake them up.

Alot of guys here will flame me for this, but the NV4500 is bombproof if you drive it right.

The front end in those trucks suck a dick, and drive like shit. If I was going to DD one I would look at fabricating a radius arm front end without the disconnecting passenger side axle shaft. Engineer a decent panhard bar. 05+ Super Duty as a template.
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Especially if you do the 5th gear nut fix. I beat the shit out of my 2003 3500 dually with the NV4500 with zero problems.
 
blakes said:
10k :eek:

137k 1994 2wd single cab 12v with auto. I drove the thing in high school. He bought it new.

I simply don't think it would be worth that, but he insists it is. :smokin:
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If it was a 4wd or a 5 speed, it might be, but getting it running might be a good start:laughing:

I'm out, but you should get it for the son price and 4wd swap it for water hauling, could be the perfect rig

There's an "overflow valve" on the fuel return that gets overlooked, it's good to throw a quality one from any of the hotrod guys at one with driveability problems
 
Projectjunkie said:
If it was a 4wd or a 5 speed, it might be, but getting it running might be a good start:laughing:

I'm out, but you should get it for the son price and 4wd swap it for water hauling, could be the perfect rig

There's an "overflow valve" on the fuel return that gets overlooked, it's good to throw a quality one from any of the hotrod guys at one with driveability problems
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Yeah, if it was 4x4 and 5spd, it would be up here on the mountain in my shop with a 450 gallon water tank sitting in the bed.

It's in the shop getting worked on right now. I'll try and remember to update the thread with what the fueling issue turned out to be...
 
I owned a 94 rclb 5 speed truck , no issues other than 5th gear nut backed off. I just did no fuel plate , play with the afc, timing at 17 degrees , 3k governor spring and it ripped for what it was.

Had to replace doors and fenders and fix cab rockers and corners. Got decent mileage, it needed a steering box and I did ball joints on it. I am on my 3rd 24v second gen daily right now , I like them better for a daily. Airdog or fass and I havent had an vp44 issues with any of them. Had one that I bought with a bad lift pump , put a fass on it and it would get dead pedal once a day or so. Just tap throttle to floor 3 times and it would come right back. :homer: And that was with a edge comp and 7x12s injectors , quite a bit of fuel.

Here is the old 94 12 valve. Currently working on swapping a p pump 12 valve into my 84 chevy. Honestly I like the squarebody better than the second gen , they are shipping crates.

Oh and because dodge is so fucking cheap , the frames are spliced at the rear spring hangers , and where I live they rust jack real bad and will eventually snap in half. And they love to rot right where the front swaybar bolts on.

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Current 2nd gen beater , have a whole rust free body I am working on painting for it here this winter. The only good body panel on it is the hood.

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Wish I had kept my 97 CCLB because i loved it, but what a pile of shit that truck was. Bought it as a 1 owner truck used to tow his bass boat on weekends with 110k miles on it. Paid 11k for it back in 2004. Started life as an auto, ended up with a set of HX35/HT3B compounds and a short throw NV4500 swapped in, New Era 435 injectors, laser cut DV's, 4k gov and valve springs to support with the obvious fuel plate/AFC/timing mods. Truck scooted for sure, but ate driveline parts for breakfast. With the aggressive clutch and the short throw kit, you could just bang gears fast enough to keep the big turbo lit, and spit a u joint when it grabbed. I ended up de-tuning it and returning to a HX35/40 hybrid for the last year or so I owned it, and it was a much nicer overall driver at the lower power level. Even though the upgraded steering components and track bar helped, it still was way sloppier than my GM's of that same era, while also riding worse and costing more to maintain.

I upgraded the output shaft to fix the 5th gear problem, and never had any issues with the trans. As much as the truck drove me nuts constantly breaking dumb shit and just being a POS to work on once it got over 200k miles, I'd buy a clean, stock RC 2wd truck in a heartbeat. Even if it was an auto like the one that apparently doesn't like to start mentioned above, hint hint.
 
slveryotabuggy said:
Have you used these? We have a 6.7 Mega cab and my old 95 12v but the brakes on my 12v suuuuck when towing a heavy load compared to the mega cab.
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Not mine, but a friend had a 96 or 97 and he towed a 30' Cobalt to Tahoe from Sacramento, and it ate brakes until he went disc.
 
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