jereli, you will be okay cause the gauge will ready all the way to 60psi and every where in between. If any thing you'll have room for an upgraded turbo if you ever wanted to do that. As for the egt temp, that should be fine too cause if you go over 1500 degrees something bad is going to happen.

 

Perfect thanks.. Cant wait to receive them and install them...

 

No problem thats why we are here. Good luck and enjoy!!

 

By chance, do you have any pictures of where you installed the boost and EGT sensors?

I want to purchase this for my excursion and I am concerned on drilling anything. I do have a shop vac and a good magnet. But I am curious as to where to install these 2 sensors. The instructions are very limited from Glow shift.

Boost: Do you install BEFORE or AFTER the turbo? I have a K&N intake so is this where I would do this?
EGT: Where to install? On the downpipe? Before the muffler? After?

Any help is appreciated and I also sent you a PM.

Thanks,

Stephen

 

I dont have any pictures of where they are yet. I will try to get some pictures tomorrow and post them. The boost sensor, I drilled and tapped into the charged air cooler tube before the intake and turbo. As for the egt, I put it on the exhaust manifold on the driver side. If you get under the truck there is a open spot above the front drive shaft that is easy access to the manifold.

 

Thanks for the reply.

I have a 2wd model truck. I have replaced the exhaust with an upgraded system and I know there is not a place from the downpipe down. However, I will have to look off of the exhaust manifold to see if there is anything.

Thanks and you answered my questions and I look forward to the pics. I think that I will be ordering it tomorrow.

There is this: Exhaust Temperature Bracket

But the tech support guy says that this wont give you the right readings. I am thinking that it needs to be on the exhaust BEFORE the downpipe and all. Correct?

 

The egt probe does not have to be before the turbo and downpipe, but that is the point of watching your egts. You want it to read the temps coming out of the engine so if they get too hot you can let of the fuel and cool things down. If the probe is in the downpipe after the turbo your getting a different reading and by the time you see the temp there, you might have melted the turbo already.
Here is where i put my boost sensor, it is in the cac pipe going into the intake.

This is where I put my egt probe, it is actually pretty easy to get to. It is right above the driveshaft.

And this is the trans temp sensor, there is a test port that is tapped already. Just have to remove the plug and put teflon tape on the new sensor and put it in. I think most truck have the test port.


This all sounds and looks harder then it really is. You just have to take your time drilling and tapping. When I drilled, I started with a small bit and worked my way up to the size I needed which is 21/64 I think but I dont remember. After I drilled, I vacuumed it and stuck the magnent in a few times trying to get everything out I could. Then When I tapped it, I did the same thing, I would go a little ways and check go a little ways and check until it fit. After I got it to fit I did the magnent again and tried to get everything out I could. After that its just the matter of running all the wires and hooking up.

Hope this helps out a little bit!!

 

Question...what is really the benefit of getting the boost guage if the truck already has it on the cluster? Is there any benefit our what the point if the cluster reads psi? sorry new to all this. Any input appreciated.

 

The boost gauge is to tell you the amount of boost your turbo puts out. There is no gauge on the dash that does this.

 

Oh really..so what does the factory psi one do? I thought that did the same thing

 

What truck do you have? I have a 2003 Excursion with the Powerstroke 7.3. It does not have a guage for boost in mine.

What does your's have?

 

I have a 2006 f250 with 6.0 power stroke...on my cluster there is a small gauge that says turbo and the making go from 0 to 40 in psi

 

meant to say markings*

 

The 7.3's do not have the factory boost gauge, I'm not sure when they started putting them in. I think the 04's with the 6.0's was the first year but I could be wrong. Mine also has the factory boost gauge as well as a Trans. temp. gauge, but adding afftermarket ones are a little more accurate then the factory ones. The factory ones are really just idiot gauges telling you that something is wrong, where as a after market one can some what warn you before something happens.

 

not sure now whether to instal another boost gauge or put a voltage guage instead since I don't have a voltage gauge on my truck. The factory boost gauge seems accurate its constantly moving depending on my driving. Anyone have a voltage gauge? Is it beneficial over a second boost gauge...