• Welcome to The Truck Stop! We see you haven't REGISTERED yet.

    Your truck knowledge is missing!
    • Registration is FREE , all we need is your birthday and email. (We don't share ANY data with ANYONE)
    • We have tons of knowledge here for your diesel truck!
    • Post your own topics and reply to existing threads to help others out!
    • NO ADS! The site is fully functional and ad free!
    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

    Problems registering? Click here to contact us!

    Already registered, but need a PASSWORD RESET? CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD!

Stanadyne or Flight Systems for a new PMD?

PMD?

  • Total voters
    28
Yes let me clairfy. First, in my signature it say available 5 years, but that is a typo it should be 7. I will fix that next. Thanks for catching it, not sure how long its been that way. On my web site it says 7 year.

On a FS kit I will extend to 7 years. See this kit http://www.pmdcable.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=4
Otherwise you get 1 year.

On the Stanadyne its 2 years. I have not as of yet offered an extended warranty on it. It has a factory 2 year warranty.
If there is interest I can work up an extended warranty for the Stanadyne also.
Here is the Stanadyne PMD http://www.pmdcable.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=34
And here is the cable and heat sink for the Stanadyne PMD
http://www.pmdcable.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=31
 
The plug will fit the gray PMD just file the nubs on the sides of the plug and it will plug right in
Click to expand...

I thought so because I have both the grey and black. Kept swapping along the road to get home! Got SS intake cooler now and no issues. Havent got to try the FS version. I kinda wish someone would step up with a final solution and be done with it!
 
countryboy69 said:
I thought so because I have both the grey and black. Kept swapping along the road to get home! Got SS intake cooler now and no issues. Havent got to try the FS version. I kinda wish someone would step up with a final solution and be done with it!
Click to expand...

If you have the ssd cooler on the intake, get it out of the engine bay into the bumper.
 
I thought about that and was gonna do it....but I heard once that the longer wires made a small change in the resister. Could be nothing, wrong, or not enough to make a difference. But since I went to the intake I had no issues at all since. Not a big deal but I am still using the PMDs that would die when mounted on the pump! Your probably right but it can stay til it quits again!
 
There have been some motorhomes with ext. 15' or more with no issues. I believe Leroy from PMDCable has made some up.
Mine lasted 5 months on the intake. Good luck.
 
Was that a Flight Systems?

I've had the old Standynes last many years on the intake. The old Flight Systems were prone to failure at anytime, mounted anywhere. I had a FS pmd last only a few monthes mounted on the front bumper.


NVW said:
There have been some motorhomes with ext. 15' or more with no issues. I believe Leroy from PMDCable has made some up.
Mine lasted 5 months on the intake. Good luck.
Click to expand...
 
jrsavoie said:
Was that a Flight Systems?

I've had the old Standynes last many years on the intake. The old Flight Systems were prone to failure at anytime, mounted anywhere. I had a FS pmd last only a few monthes mounted on the front bumper.
Click to expand...

Actually its the otherway around. The "old" FS PMDs were very reliable. They did have a run of PMDs that were terrible last year though (fixed now). The black Stanadynes were flaking out in a year in alot of cases. This is why GM switched over to FS PMD's. Well they cost less also.
A PMD will live longer remote mounted out of engine bay.
I've built cables over 20' for both FS and Stan PMD's they still run on customers RV's.
I highly recomend you get a cable from somewhere and remote mount.

Not @ jrsavoie, but in general. Not realizing a remote mount is better is old school thinking, like 1994 thinking!
 
More like 1959 thinking. I've had no more problems with intake mount than remote mount overall. All of the FS pmd's I got were crap. Must have all been from the bad years.

Unless they start puking on the intake I will leave them there. With this number of vehicles on the road I should notice a pattern.
 
Some have had real good "luck" with intake mounts, but the #s are small. You need to buy a lottery ticket as you have got good luck.
 
Intakes are about the hottest place aside of the exhaust to mount something. I have melted wire looms that simply go near the intake with the 300+ degree air temps out of the turbo. Heat kills electronics both by reducing life from running hot and stress cracks from heat cycles. So a steady temperature or reducing the heat cycles and the extreme heat swings reduces cracks. Peak and sustained high temperatures reduce the life of electronics. See accelerated life testing to failure and the #1 ingredient is higher heat...

This is why out of the engine compartment is better as the overall temp isn't as high and the swings of temperature are not as high. If you can't touch it you can blow it is the rule for electronics. Some days I can't touch the bumper let alone the door handle - but always things under the hood are too hot to touch...
 
Sorry for digging this up but I have a couple questions.

1. Are the new flight systems pmds direct plug and play replacements for the old black stanadyne pmds?
2. Do the cables that leroy (burning oil) sells for the stanadynes have the proper connector to adapt the new grey pmds to the old plug (black pmd)?
 
Yes on both counts,from all reports I have read the harness from PMD Cable is available for either the black or grey IP harness for the grey PMD`s and the flight systems PMD is a direct connect to any other black harness.
 
racer55 said:
Yes on both counts,from all reports I have read the harness from PMD Cable is available for either the black or grey IP harness for the grey PMD`s and the flight systems PMD is a direct connect to any other black harness.
Click to expand...

Thank you.

X2, Yes on both. Let me see if I can claifiy alittle.
My cable/s will plug onto both the old black Stanadyne or the new grey Stanadyne short IP harness from the IP.
The PMD side of the cable is specific though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top