I tried doing a search, but the search engine keeps telling me that the word kdp is to small to search.
Newbie to Cummins trucks. Please help.

Regards,
Clay

 

killer dowel pin. (its a pin that resides in the timing case*ithink* and it is prone to wiggling out and cracking the housing because it gets jammed in teh gear. should find a ton of info in the tech section of the website. thanks for the reminder i still need to get mine taken care of one day!
he he, jiMMy

 

Do your search with kdp* and it will work.

 

Thanks all. Where did the name come from?

Clay

 

That's a good question... I haven't been around for that long...

 

it starts with the new 1994 timing covers. it is called the killer dowel pin becuase when it wiggles out it is notorious for killing the timing cover and i have heard of it damaging timing gearsets and in a few cases i think it has killed the motor. I know mine wiggled out enought to let the gasket behind the timing cover gasket tear. the $1600+ is going to be a "killer" my wallet

Doah: I guess it does involve Gen 1s also

 

the KDP also applies to the 1st gens, just not as much... ask wannadiesel for more info

 

Here's a example in a '93 CTD:









The typical fix is to modify a washer so as to block the pin from coming out and falling into the gears and/or case with catastrophic results.


I bent up some coat-hanger wire: