i spoke with a old friend that has a big truck diesel shop and he said the same sounds like i am losing power or ground to the vp44 so he printed out the diagrams from the cummins book for mehe said they can work on it but are limited since it is in a dodge pickup

 

bleed the injectors and it fired up today i got no clue what is up with this truck must have a short or something so I guess it has to goto the shop

 

If you bleed it then you must be sucking air somewhere, go on a hard WOT run and see if it dies again, if it does and you beeld it again and it starts then you must have a fuel issue

 

Did the hard wot after last time with no breakup and pushing full boost, this time the truck died at idle after startup, last 2 times died under low throttle driving conditions not loaded, dropped it off at a diesel shop where i know the owner so guess we shall see what they find, my luck it won't act up on them

 

Its is a bummer when trying to diagnoise a problem and you cant narrow it down, especially when everytime it happens under different circumstances, it becomes a guessing game after that...and expensive too.
Hopefully the guys at the shop can fiqure it out without breaking the bank...

heres another story, a friend took a ford tempo to a shop cause it dies on the side of the road, it would start and run then die again. they fiqured it was the fuel pump (spent2.5hrs diagnoising) they changed the pump, shortly after that it stopped and would not run, they concluded that the ECM was bad, so they replaced it. Friend goes to pick up car while its outside idling they see steam and smoke billowing out from under the car, they have a look and the Cat is glowing red. its so plugged the car will barely idle and move. The shop cuts the cat out and replaces it with a temp pipe (testing purposes) Car runs perfect, Shop swears it was never a Cat issue, I dissagree. No matter as the Owner is happy its up and fixed, The shop did eat alot of labour, but wont admit to the owner that it was a faulty Cat.

 

yup thats 1 reaseon I do not want to goto the dealer unless I have to, diesels are not big in this area so while they will say yes we can work on it they probly have no clue what to look for without spending hours looking through the manual and charging you for it,my buddie has to go 20 miles into a heavily congested area to take his ford diesel in for repairs at the big dealer all the others aren't equiped to work on it, I love how they will sell a truck but can't work on it unless it has a gas engine,most service writers only care about jobs coming in not weather they can do the job without screwing the customer since alot of customers don't know any better