The name certainly is intimidating enough, isn't it? 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; a problem has ...

While both the 12 and some 24-valve Cummins 5.9L engines are known to suffer from the killer dowel pin issue, it's believed that the former models are more prone to experience the problem.

If you don't know what the dowel pin does, it's inserted into the block to keep the timing gear housing lined up with the ...

The killer dowel pin causes engine damage or oil leaks Industrial Injection/YouTube.com Found in the 5.9-liter Cummins turbodiesel engines is a small, cylindrical metal part that functions to ...