Friday morning me and my dad were going up to Juliet Illinois to pick up a refrigerator. Well I think we made it about 200 miles or so, to Atlanta Illinois when all of a sudden the truck just falls on its face and starts smoking real bad (white smoke) and missin, so we put on the flashers and coast over to the shoulder just about this time the truck dies. When we came to a stop we poped the hood checked the oil checked the antifreeze and all was good, When we went to restart it, it just cranked and cranked and cranked until it fired up. And it was doing the same thing only this time there was a noise coming from the motor, (it sounded just like a rod knocken on a gas motor) so we tried to coast up to the next exit, after about 15-30 seconds the knocken quit but it still was idling rough as ever, and smoking bad. We made it about a 1/4 mile and it died again, fired it up again and made it to the nearest gas station. We sat there for three hours and waited for a buddy to come get us with his goose neck. Im kinda thinking its a problem with the injecters, it isnt throwing no codes either.

 

How is the fuel pressure. Take a 19mm open end wrench and crack an injector line, it sounds like it is starving for fuel. Maybe the LP died, and the VP is trying to pull fuel through a dead LP.

 

Dont have a lift pump replaced it with the airdog, and its reading 14-18psi all the time.

 

Sound like your VP. If I'm not mistaken, Shovelhead's went out like that and didn't throw a code.

 

Pretty sure it's the VP. Sounds like it anyway.

 

Wish you could have checked the member map. You were only 20 miles down the road from me, we probably could have got you goin locally without having to call in the cavalry.

 

where do i find a member map? Live in NW Missouri curious if any members are close to me


Tom

 

Map thread is here :

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ad.php?t=80812

The Map is here:

http://www.frappr.com/dieseltruckresource

 

So im guessing everyone's bet is on vp44?

 

Most likely... malfunctioning VP44 = lack of fuel = rough running and knocking.

At least that's been my experience.

~ Russ

 

You should be able to do a "Key on/Key off" three times and pull the codes on your 2001.

My 99 didn't have that option.
My IP died without warning.
Truck was running at 2000 rpm one second, shut down the next.

Others have had rough running, white smoke, dead accelerator pedal, or shutting off while running when their Injection pumps were dying..

 

Well it turns out i wasnt lucky enough for it to be the vp44, it turns out to be that the #6 piston is burnt up pretty bad! And that im going to need a new piston, and hopefully it didnt hurt the cylinder wall or else then im really screwed!

 

Man that sucks! That had crossed my mind since it's the exact same thing I went through (except mine threw a code)... I didn't suggest it cuz I didn't want to jinx you... guess it didn't help though. Sorry about your luck. I've been there.

You having someone else do the work? If the cylinder walls are scarred the whole engine will have to come out which will cost ya... I ran up $2800 at the Cummins shop before I decided to bring the truck home and finish the job myself.

Good luck!

 

What codes did your truck throw? mine threw 2 but cleared them for some reason, i remember p0123 and p0194 or something like that.

 

I'm pretty sure it was P1693.