You also have to factor in the tax, increase in insurance cost and so on of
a newer or new truck. Also along with the newer truck come a whole bunch of
expensive electronic stuff.
You might want to take your truck to a Cummins facility and have them put it
on the dyno and see what they come up with. You might be down on power due
to a real simple cause.

I learned some time ago that if you really want to go fast you do it in a
car. A truck is a truck, is a truck, it may be powerful but it is a truck.
If I had it to do over again, I should have kept my 94 12V.

But it always seems to come down to "want" rather than "need".

Miricle of miricles...ok, pretty simple fix really. I'm rather embarrsed
while scratching my head. I'll get to this and the fix in a moment...

Local Cummins seemed much more in tune than the Dodge guys as they
didn't know what was wrong, what couuld be wrong, and not sure where to
start. Cummins didn't want $95 to throw it on machine as Dodge did. It
doesn't need a machine. it's needs a real mech who knows the engine as
it has to be a simple fix, just because of the symptons. I'm not a mech,
but do repair things and know the difference between something major and
something minor. It's just a gut feeling and the symptons.

Cummins said $90, then 50 to hook it to a computer then time to read it
and it came out to $240 just to see if there was anything wrong.
No thanks.

I heard our area (Virginia Beach) finally has a diesel place that is
about power, not big rig repairs. Went there this morning. The man who
looked at my truck drives the same thing as well as a newer dually and
is in the Navy as a Nuc Mach Mate. We speak the same language.

I told him what I noteced and thought, the overflow valve replaced,
etc... We went for a ride. It wasn't too bad and he liked it for the
most part. I said the throttle plate is slid all teh way forward. He
didn't like that as the power wasn't there for that simple mod. I asked
him if his foot was on the firewall or in a more normal position like
his truck.
That got his attention.
Back tot eh garage.
Throttle has a lottle of play in it. Yep. that's why I said I'm not
getting WOT. Didn't take long from there. I told him Dodge had done a
recall to replace the throttle cable but it looked different than the
new one I had already replaced on it (new style). The one they put on
wasn't the old style or the new style. It's different.

He made a quick spacer to take the slack behind the pedal. Lo an d
behold, the truck runs like it did when I forst bought it. I'm putting
the old cable back in.

(if you're confused, the original cable frayed and Dodge had a new one
out. Dealer said no recall even though NHTSA said there was. I bought
the new one, repalced it myself and called Dodge. A friends brother
worked for them in their main hq in their quality dept. That helped. The
faxed me the paperwork to give to the dealer for the recall and sent me
a check to pay for the cable I bought. Dealer put the new cable on and
gave me my new cable back. Sweet!

Now the embarassment. I never noticed a loss of power or slack in the
throttle from that time. I did notice that over a year to two years
time, power was slipping away. I thought my truck was dying.

Nope. Overflow valve spring broken and now throttle cable bad. It's
running really sweet now. I've got power! My foot isn't embedded into
the firewall trying to get it to move. To be honest, with the slack in
the cable, I didn't notice my foot sinking into the floor before power
came on. Seemed pretty normal. Now my foot barely moves and i'm honking
60. Pretty easy to pass on the freeway now, as well as take off from a
dead stop.

I did feel blessed and that God was allowing me to play a little so I am
going to put  in 3k gsk, kdp fix,  3 pod gauge set, timing checked and
tweaked, and a #8 TST plate installed. He's going to do that in 2 weeks
(he's only free weekends, Scott, not the business). I thought about a #6
plate but looking at TST's site, the #8 seems best for tranny life. A
#10 isn't rec'd for some reason. I know I've read online that taking a
10 and then grinding is fun, but TST says 10's are n/a.

Anyways, there it is in long form.

Short form? Stretched (or wrong throttle cable installed by dealer.)

John

Yeah...  pulling transmissions every time they break gets old REAL quick  :)

I'll do that at next rebuild. I'm approaching 90k on this rebuild. The
guy who worked on my truck today mentioned about the stall set up on
them. Not sure why Dodge does it that way. My understanding or take from
his conversation was that they will always slip as the Sp is higher than
what it turns. Did I say that right?
John

John