The mysteries of the versatile LS series engines are unlocked in the Haynes Techbook Cummins Diesel Engine Manual. Covering everything from engine overhaul, cylinder head selection and modification, induction and fuel systems, camshafts and valve train, to beefing-up the bottom end, turbo and supercharger add-ons, engine swaps and extreme builds, this manual will help you get the most from your LS-powered vehicle.

With Haynes Manuals, you can do-it-yourself...from simple maintenance to major repairs. Haynes writes every procedure based on a complete teardown and rebuild of the machine.

Haynes offers the best coverage for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs and motorcycles on the market today. Each manual contains easy to follow step-by-step instructions linked to hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Included in every manual: troubleshooting section to help identify specific problems; tips that give valuable short cuts to make the job easier and eliminate the need for special tools;notes, cautions and warnings for the home mechanic; color spark plug diagnosis and an easy to use index.

With a Haynes manual, you can do it yourself…from simple maintenance to basic repairs. Haynes writes every book based on a complete teardown of the vehicle. We learn the best ways to do a job and that makes it quicker, easier and cheaper for you. Our books have clear instructions and plenty of photographs that show each step. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, you can save big with Haynes! • Step-by-step procedures • Easy-to-follow photos • Complete troubleshooting section • Valuable short cuts • Color spark plug diagnosis Complete coverage for your Dodge Full-Size Pick-up covering Ramcharger and Trailduster (with gasoline engines only) (see years covered): • Routine Maintenance • Tune-up procedures • Engine repair • Cooling and heating • Air Conditioning • Fuel and exhaust • Emissions control • Ignition • Brakes • Suspension and steering • Electrical systems • Wiring diagrams

At the very beginning of my career, I found myself "thrown to the lions." As a recent graduate and at my first job as a test-bench calibration engineer, I was asked to perform activities that were alien to me, and this made me feel quite lost, incapable of proving my value and making my contribution to my department and the company. This situation lasted for several months and converged slowly, thanks to the help of my colleagues and the few sparse files and books I could get my hands on. Finding appropriate documents on diesel engine calibration and bench activities proved to be a very difficult task. This book is trying to close that gap, providing a manual of activities and procedures for anyone starting from zero. If you are an expert on diesel engines, with a lot of experience and years working in calibration environments, you will possibly find the content of these pages quite obvious, or you might even -why not?- disagree with some of my arguments and suggestions. If you are an engineer who's new to this world, you have been contracted by an automotive company and will work on diesel engines, or you are simply an engineer working in the automotive industry, and you would like to increase this specific knowledge area -diesel engine calibration and operation- this is a book that will definitely help you. It is structured to give you insight into the engine, the bench, and the combustion process, and then to focus on some of the standard calibration activities performed at a test bench, with hints on the main points, possible problems, and expected results. It is all mixed together with a bit of theory and some formulas, but these are limited to the minimum necessary. There are plenty of highly theoretical articles available to deepen into mathematics and physics around diesel combustion, but that is not the purpose here. My small vision is that this book may be found, someday, in the technical libraries of diesel engine departments and in the libraries of diesel engine engineers, and of course in the hands of anyone who's willing to improve his or her knowledge on calibration procedures or simply to get to better understand how a diesel engine works and how bench technical personnel work with them. To improve the learning curve and the academic value, you will find plenty of real examples (all with false numbers and without an indication of the origin of the data, of course), and many images, some of which can be found online without much effort. People nowadays say that the remaining life of the diesel engine is short. I tend to disagree. Their advantages in terms of efficiency and utilization cost are so superior to their gasoline counterparts as to suggest many miles still await them in their current form or in other, more exotic shapes.

Complete step-by-step repair and maintenance information, 700+ photos, and wiring diagrams all based on a full disassembly and reassembly of the vehicle.

With a Haynes manual, you can do it yourself…from simple maintenance to basic repairs. Haynes writes every book based on a complete teardown of the vehicle. We learn the best ways to do a job and that makes it quicker, easier and cheaper for you. Our books have clear instructions and plenty of photographs that show each step. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, you can save big with Haynes! • Step-by-step procedures • Easy-to-follow photos • Complete troubleshooting section • Valuable short cuts • Color spark plug diagnosis Also including turbo-diesel engines (see years covered): • Routine Maintenance • Tune-up procedures • Engine repair • Cooling and heating • Air Conditioning • Fuel and exhaust • Emissions control • Ignition • Brakes • Suspension and steering • Electrical systems • Wiring diagrams