there is no need to put an additive in the fuel, unless you have water in the tank.
my truck is 22 years old and has never had anything added to the fuel except for what the refinery's put in it, and i have never had any problems with any of my trucks. some of the trucks i sold to the regular drivers now have over 400,000 miles on them and are still going strong.
with the exception of new injector pumps every 150k miles, glow plugs, and vacuum pumps, those trucks are still all stock too.
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there is no need to put an additive in the fuel, unless you have water in the tank.
my truck is 22 years old and has never had anything added to the fuel except for what the refinery's put in it, and i have never had any problems with any of my trucks. some of the trucks i sold to the regular drivers now have over 400,000 miles on them and are still going strong.
with the exception of new injector pumps every 150k miles, glow plugs, and vacuum pumps, those trucks are still all stock too.
You have to use fuel additive now the ultra low sulphur fuel will wipe out a mechanical injection pump in no time. The old Stanadyne pumps were designed for diesel that had lubrication.
You have to use fuel additive now the ultra low sulphur fuel will wipe out a mechanical injection pump in no time. The old Stanadyne pumps were designed for diesel that had lubrication.
totally false.
when sulfur was removed from diesel fuel, a lubricant was automatically added to the fuel at the refinery to replace the lubricities lost by removing the sulfur.
as i said before, i have never added anything of any kind to my fuel, and have never had any problems.
the injector pump in my 88 has 120,000 miles on it so far running strictly ULSDF
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a good fix for the sluggish power would be an after market turbo. my 93 IDI has a banks turbo on it and i out run 6.0 and 6.4 PSD's all the time
Ok, I gotta throw the BS flag on this one. Unless you've done a whole lot more to it that you're not telling us, you ain't outrunning 6.0 & 6.4 PSDs.
I'm not saying the Banks turbo doesn't help, it probably wakes that IDI up pretty nice, but you're putting down what? 195 HP to the wheels? Stock 6.0's & 6.4's are putting a lot more than that to the pavement.
I got nothing against the IDI motors, if it works for you, great. But if you're outrunning Powerstrokes, then they're just not trying.
my 88 when it was juiced to the max with open pipes and the 5 speed hit 346hp on a dyno with a banks nonwastegated sidewinder turbo running 16lbs of boost..
it is now detuned to around 250 hp.
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The IDI is a pretty decent engine, but keep on top of the coolant or you'll blow holes through the cylinders. Ford has a special additive to help with this, I would highly suggest using it.
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Parts would most likely be cheaper and more plentiful on the 2000. Not that the 94 would be a bad buy but they made the turbo idi for a short peiord of time compared to the 7.3 powerstroke. Also if I recall the turbo 7.3 was basically a ats kit added at the factory. Where the power stroke is a international design. I like the old turbos but I bet parts are harder to find and more expensive
I checked before I got my 90, the parts are cheaper on the IDI.
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Can I retrofit a catalytic converter to my butt?
Some of the turbo-specific "hard parts" like some of the exhaust bits are obsolete, but kits seem to pop up on ebay all the time. Everything is pretty much your standard IDI stuff, even the exhaust manifolds are the same.
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totally false.
when sulfur was removed from diesel fuel, a lubricant was automatically added to the fuel at the refinery to replace the lubricities lost by removing the sulfur.
as i said before, i have never added anything of any kind to my fuel, and have never had any problems.
the injector pump in my 88 has 120,000 miles on it so far running strictly ULSDF
Hate to burst your bubble, but sometimes the wholesalers "forget" to add the additive(s) before shipping to the retailers. I'm spending $20/fill on additive because of their stupidity.
And ULSD *IS* much "drier" than the old LSD or the really old 3000ppm fuel.
I've got a set of Detroit S60 injectors that are screaming for replacement; their degradation in performance can be traced almost to the week to the introduction of ULSD fuel.
my 88 when it was juiced to the max with open pipes and the 5 speed hit 346hp on a dyno with a banks nonwastegated sidewinder turbo running 16lbs of boost..
it is now detuned to around 250 hp.
346 is a crap load of power for only 16 LBS of boost!
How many RPM's is that at?
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