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Killer Dowel Pin

06-12-2003, 02:54 AM

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hmickelson

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Killer Dowel Pin

I have looked around for all the information I could find about the killer dowel pin and notice tha most of the failures seem to be ,at least for the 1993, CTD's that have been modified. Especially those with HP over 205. then noted that of the thousands manufactured that Cummins admits to some of the pins were not the correct size but they installed them anyway. also ther seems to be a number out there of failures to date being 496. And that Cummins set forth a criteria for repairing those that were loose, or thought to be, by using wick loctite.
It seems incredible that Cummins would admit to a failure and not issue a change order(recall) or extend the warranty in the event of failure.

I don't know the requirements of a class action . Is 496 enough?
The real question is : What are the odds of having this failure if your CTD is not modified?

Food for thought. May I have you comments.
hmickelson

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