Cummins 8.3 ISC Caps issue

Discussion in 'Heavy Duty Diesel Truck Mechanics Forum' started by Deanfitz27, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM.

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    Deanfitz27 Bobtail Member

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    I have a 2003 Peterbilt with a Cummins 8.3 ISC with the caps pump. I have been having issues with the truck, first problem was a break down, i scanned it out and did some testing to determine the stator on the caps pump failed, I replaced it along with the transient suppressor and the truck fired up and ran great for a couple months. The next issue was it went into power derate due to the rear pumping element, during this the engine light came on and stayed on, i diagnosed it and determined it was the rear pressure valve on top on the caps pump accumulator. Replaced this and it has been running well ever since, except the engine light comes on at times during load (certain accelerations), only for approx 2 seconds and goes off again, when the light comes on, it detrates power for a second but the power comes back when the light goes off. Once the truck warms up the engine stays off. I am getting code 329 sid 233 fmi 7. I have checked all the basic things like replacing the fuel filter, both fuel lines are new. In planing on selling the truck and can not get this problem to go away, any help would be appreciated.
     
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    Possible issues are, bad grounds, air in fuel, high inlet restriction and high inlet fuel temps, stator plate leakage, injection control valve, do click test on icv, not saying if it clicks its good. The D drive coupler wollows out after time and creates all kinds of issues with fuel related timing issues. One of the worst fuel systems to diagnose, oh, and parts are spendy....
     
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    Yes, it is not a nice fuel system. It did pass the click test, I don't appear to have any leaks. Funny thing is the truck works perfect once warmed up. When you say check for grounds, would it be possible to attach a new stand alone ground to the pump and see if that worked?
     
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    If you had a bad ground, you would have lots of off the wall wierd things going on. You can unplug connector to caps pump. Gently probe on non pump side to cab ground, 10 ohms or less for a ground. Hopefully less than 2. I do not remember which is ground, but could look at diagram later. I am betting on the D drive wear and throwing timing off when cold engine, when warms up has some heat in it, so its not as noticable
     
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    Thanks if you had a diagram that would be great. I guess another important thing to note is this pump is 5 years old with about 25000 miles
     
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    Sorry, was out of area with a load, will check in am
     
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