As it often does, the Diesel Truck Wars Spring event kicked off diesel drag racing for the season. Once again held at Northeast Dragway in Hertford, North Carolina, loads of trucks showed up to compete both on the track and in the show ‘n shine. Out on the drag strip, David Keyser represented one of many old body style 7.3L Power Strokes tearing through the eighth mile in 7-second intervals.
The infamous Jumping Jack Flash Pro Stock truck, a ’16 F-350 packing a Hypermax common-rail 6.7L Power Stroke under the hood, showed up in Hammond, Louisiana over the weekend. The reason? The first Mid-South PPL points hook on the season. With the truck’s builder, Will Hardesty, behind the wheel (for the first time, no less), the JJF Ford lugged the sled 308-feet on Friday night—which was good enough for Fifth Place in a tough class.
“I don’t trust your lifting bracket to hold a fully dressed engine…” How’s this for a confidence booster? To prove its engine lifting bracket is as strong as advertised, Firepunk Diesel posted this photo to social media. Not only is this Cummins fully dressed, but its compound turbo arrangement is bolted in place and so is the transmission that backs it up. Firepunk’s engine lift bracket is designed to go in the rocker box holes to make this exact situation a cinch for fully dressed Cummins mills. In raw form, the lifting bracket retails for $80.
CP4.2 failure is a very big fear in the 6.7L Power Stroke segment, and rightfully so. The lifter buckets are infamous for rotating in their bores, at which point the roller affixed to the bottom of the lifter bucket begins eating into the camshaft. In short order, metal shavings can take out the pump, lines, rails, injectors, and even the lift pump. RCD Performance has permanently solved the lifter bucket issue by pinning the buckets in place. For added insurance, a new feed port is machined in the CP4.2’s housing so that—in the rare event of a pump failure—metal shavings won’t contaminate the high-pressure chambers and be allowed to flow toward the rails and injectors. Called its CPX, the stock replacement version of its pinned pump starts at just $999.
Your truck’s factory body mounts will eventually fail. Polyurethane replacements often come with a trade-off in ride quality. The body mounts produced by S&B Filters are the perfect solution. Made from a premium silicone rubber, the company’s body, cab, and core support mounts offer tremendous vibration isolation and will not crack or break down like OEM rubber or foam versions do.
Many enthusiasts don’t know this, but your ’20-’22 Duramax monitors air mass and pressure so closely that any deviation from stock causes a check engine light. This means that most aftermarket cold air intakes have to flow the same as stock. This is also why Banks includes its newly-patented air mass control module with every Ram-Air intake it sells for the L5P Duramax.
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