They are typically used to help locate and line up a housing to housing assembly.
Killer dowel pin 24 valve.
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On the assembly line a tiny steel dowel pin was pressed into the block of 89 to 02 mills in order to locate the engine s timing gear housing.
This kit gives everything needed to replace the pin with a more permanent solution before it leaves your truck down.
In a nutshell the term refers to a dowel pin failure inside a 12 valve or 24 valve 5 9l cummins engine s timing gear housing.
Killer dowel pin kdp the problem.
Killer dowel pin is the achilles heel of the 12 valve cummins.
The dowel pin used in the cummins engine can back out of its bore.
Common especially to the dodge 5 9l 12 valve engines but still a concern for the 24 valve cummins the dowel pin located behind the timing cover can work its way loose and drop down into the timing gears causing extensive damage.
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A problem has the potential to well completely kill an engine by.
Such is the case with the cummins 12 valve engines and some early model 24 valve engines where the gear case timing cover assembles to the engine block.
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Does the killer dowel pin exist in a 1999 24 valve.
Due to its ability to completely trash an engine the killer dowel pin tops our list of cummins shortcomings.