turbo dreams

does everyone here worry about their vp? it makes me sick thinking that i will have to replace this thing again. I have even contemplated swapping in a 12v motor when the vp dies again. last time my pump died it died cruising with 15 psi pressure, and left me on the side of the road. Does everyone worry about this thing like i do??

cumminspower79

Not really, I mean look at how many miles that pump lasted you, nothing lasts forever, parts wear, mine went out @ 69000mi. and yours lasted 200k. But I said if mine does go out again im going to buy a 3rd gen. somewhere between 03 and 05.

SilverRam3500

I worry like hell. Becasue to me it's not just the cost, it's the agrevation of being stranded and if far from home then things are harder and different to fix. Your hands are tied at the place you end up at.
if at home I fix and replace whatever and do it right with my patience and skills. I do things better than most mechanics on my stuff. Others out there know what I mean. I hater repair shops and especially dealers!

I hate to worry about that VP!

CARR

I try not to

Dinner

I do, every time I get in my ol girl I wonder if today is going to be the day. And then of course the night I think nothing of it, it dies

AAmeeting

You could spend the rest of your life worring of things like that. What if you get 2 Flats? Tranny failure, earth quake, meteor? Things happen and if it does you deal with it like a man. If mine fails I replace it, If it doest it again maybe by that time do a p7100 swap. With as many miles you got out of the first one sounds like you were lucky. The point I am trying to make is that every vehicle can fail and leave you stranded so you just cant worry about it lifes just to short.

CSAGrey1

All the time
But if I had gotten 200k out of the stock pump I probably wouldn't be to terrible concerned.......

BigBlue

Nope. I've got 128,500 on it and it's been tapped for 100k+. It's going to die, I know it is. Matter of fact I think it's getting weak. But there's nothing I can do about it so I might as well accept it and live life.

cumminsdriver635

I would worry if I had one. This is the honest truth:

I have driven 2 VP44'd truck with comp boxes on them. Neither was my truck, and it was the 2nd time I had driven one, and the first time I drove the other, and I killed both of them! I was coasting to the side of the road each time I couldnt believe it. I dont even own a 24 valve and I have killed 2 vp's

Eric

Tate

You've got that special touch. Just stay away from my truck!

smokindog

Ahh, talk like this is what makes everyone worry.

You said your 1st one died at 190K with a solid 15psi, but how many lift pumps did you replace in that time?

The following short story was before I know squat about the VP.....

I noticed a slight stumble from my truck under heavy load around 88K. I took it to the dealer and they replaced the lift pump. Problem was I was working at a jobsite about 80 miles one way for 3 weeks so I had to wait until I could either be without the truck or not have to be onsite. It ended up being the latter and at the completion of the job I finally got the truck in. How much damage do you think I did to it in those 3 weeks that it wasn't getting enough fuel? Well, at 159K within about 1500 miles of installing the FASS, TST, bigger sticks, and my tran$mi$$ion, it finally croaked on me. I replaced it with a Blue Chip VP and haven't thought about it since. I now have 208+K on it.

VP's are just like the news.... if something bad happens you hear about it everytime. No one goes spoutin off about how.. "Well, today in the city we had absolutely no murders!" For everyone that has had a VP leave them on the side of the road there are just as many that have never had a problem. Heck, a lot of the folks running around with stock trucks and not too in tune with the internet don't even think it is a problem. I would be willing to bet that for many of them it never will be either.

Dinner

Yea we only replaced 1 Lift Pump out of the 268,000 km we got on ours. We are now at like 269,XXX and they both took a dump

J Double

I can't wait until mine dies. Just more justification to get a Hot VP. Back in the day I was more worried about the lift pump failing and taking the VP along with it. Ever since I put on a RASP, over 60k miles ago, I haven't thought about or worried about a LP failure or the VP dieing.

turbo dreams

you all have valid points. and all these different opinions is what i originally wanted when i made this thread. i agree life is too short to worry. and that any car can leave you stranded. my first pump did go a long while, but you just read so many threads about "my vp died with 30k" and blah blah blah. it just gets to you after awhile. my pump is new and my truck is very strong. my old pump gave me warning it was going out. when you put it in drive after starting it up, it would stumble, so i kinda got the clue. i just would hate to be stranded far away from home and luckily last time i wasn't far from home.

cumminspower79

Smokindog, you couldent have said it better, when I first found this forum I thought oh man theres a lot of VP problems, even before I knew what a vp was(thank you DTR members for educating me by the way!) then I realized there are thousands of these trucks on the road and we are not even a dust spec of a percentage of them!!
Sometimes when I am driving around town and I see a soccer mom or a person that just bought there truck to tow there horses or somthing like that I think to myself, I wonder if they know what their FP is or do they even care? They just start the truck and drive it. Never giving their vp44 a second thought, Heck they dont even know what it is!!!