I was finishing up my piston pump install. Opened up my air bleed.... went to close it off and it wouldn't tighten.



So i was wondering if anyone had the part numbers for the banjo,bleed and washers.

I should just buy the one from genos but i need my truck mobile and hope to find it local.


Thanks.

 

If you still need it tomorrow I can get you the part # from work .. any cummins or diesel truck shop should have one that will work, just bring in your old one. Don't worry I did the same thing

 

The numbers would be great. The guys at cummins here don't like to help you unless you have part numbers.

 

It has gotten to the point that alot of parts places or maybe more dealer types ask for a parts #. I always thought that was their job to find the # when you told them what you needed. I think it's getting worse. As bad as the economy is and as parts sales fall off you would think they would do everything in their power to be most helpful. A "few-very few" will go the extra step to get what you need/want. I hate the deer in the headlights look you get when you ask for something they don't sell a hundred of a day. Good luck with your truck.

 

Could you tap it out to 1/8" npt and plug it?

 

Take your ESN engine serial number into Cummins and that will bring up the part number you need. Or wait for Geno's. Or drill and tap it to 1/8npt.

 

To get the truck up and running, simply drill/tap it to whatever next larger size tap and bolt that you already have.

Without digging one out of the spider-webs and refreshing my memory, I think the bleeder-screw is smaller than 1/4"; I am nearly certain it is smaller than 5/16".

You can, as already suggested, tap it for 1/8-NPT, but for emergency purposes you probably can lay your hands on a plain old bolt-thread tap a lot easier than an NPT tap.

You can coat the threads with the sealer of your choice.

Lacking a tap, simply put a machine screw through the hole from the inside, with flat washer and nut on the outside, then seal it off on the outside with some stick plumber's epoxy.

To keep youir fixings from contaminating the system, simply swap the two banjos, such that the repaired one is pre-filter.

 

Looking at it from the parts supplier's side of the counter, there are five-thousand times more parts/possibilities than there were twenty years ago.

Just for something so simple as plain old tires, it would take two big tobacco warehouses to stock only one set of each size that are direct replacement for O.E.M.

For just one specific vehicle, the application book will list as many as ten possibles, all completely different; for instance: for a 2003 Studebaker Hudson GT, it may come as plain-jane, limited, GT, sport, imperial, deluxe, luxury sedan, fleet/lease, LT, and economy, all being spec-ed with different tire sizes and rim diameters; the customer seldom knows what they have; so, without complete information, many costly time-consuming mistakes can easily be made.

It is not all the parts-man's fault.

 

Ditch it and get high flow banjo bolts.

 

I got the dripping stopped with a little Teflon tape But it is just a trail fix and will be repaired properly. Cummins didn't have the banjo or the bleed and didn't even entertain the thought of ordering it for me, and komatsu was a couple days out.

Wanna, How do i go about getting high flow banjos?

 

Order them from Geno's, Vulcan, or GDP.

 

It don't say so, but these are the ones that fit :

http://www.genosgarage.com/prodinfo....BF-LONG-TAPPED


Better yet is to completely replace the hard-lines with rubber hose, JIC fittings, and 12x1.5 Metric adapters, commonly referred to as a "big line kit".

 

i saw a post sometime ago where someone bored the holes in their stock one slightly bigger. but in your case, it's stripped. maybe you can get your hands on a stock one for cheap and open up the holes with a bit one or maybe two sizes larger than the existing holes.

 

what lines can be replaced? from the lift pump to the filter head, from the filter to the pump, pump return lines, etc?

 

All of 'em. The return lines are perfectly adequate as is, though.