NEW MEMBER Welcome DukeDuke to the TPS

[SixStringMadness]

New Member Alert,....

Everyone join me and welcome Alex, DukeDuke, to the Tennessee Powerstrokes.

Alex,

Tell us a bit about yourself, and welcome to the Chapter ym friend.

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[justinlogue5_0]

Welcome DukeDuke! Glad you made it over here Any luck with the truck yet?

[SixStringMadness]

what's up with the truck

[justinlogue5_0]

Hes the one I was asking about the other night, wondering if any one was close to Chattanooga to help him out. Here ya go.
99 7.3 tries to start, but won't turn over...

[SixStringMadness]

I don't know the 7.3 as well as I thought I did after learning about my 6.0. My 7.3 never broke so I didn't have to. I have no idea whats up with that one. I wish I had more to say that would actually help. Let me know how it goes guys.....

If you get stuck somewhere and need a pull/tow let me know dude. I'll try to help

[DukeDuke]

Thanks guys! No luck yet. It completely wouldn't turn over yesterday, so I let it sit in a parking lot last night, went to crank it this morning, batteries were dead. So, I took them to Advanced to have tests run on them and charge them, they are still under warranty, they are supposed to be 750 cold cranking amps, one was 450CCA and the other was 240CCA. So I left them, went back and one was 350CCA after 6 or 7 hours of charging, so I'm guessing the batteries are bad as well. So, perhaps the batteries and/or charging system is at fault for the issue. I'm not sure, if that isn't the problem, I'm having it towed to a diesel mechanic tomorrow. I'd like to have to combed front to back anyway by a professional just to give me their input. Oh well! I'll keep you updated! Thanks for everything guys! I am going to enjoy being here! Talk to Bill(CainInTN) for about an hour last night, and it was a good time just BSing with a local guy, I can't wait till the next meet and to meet everyone!

[SixStringMadness]

Glad to have you on board, keep us posted on the truck

[dbkerley]

I wanted to know on mine shortly after I got it up and going. So, I dropped it off to a guy and he went through the whole thing. He ended up replacing a couple of injectors and putting in a set of glow plugs. He also gave me a ton of info on the truck that I used later when the little nuisance items (CPS, relays) started acting up.

New batteries are a must in these trucks. I was running the 1000cca batteries from Sam's. They would spin it like a small block.

[justinlogue5_0]

Yep, I thought my batteries were fine untill I actually started checking voltage. needless to say I had to go buy two new batteries.

[chvyrkr]

Welcome to the chapter Duke!