Gauges?
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Gauges?
I just bought a stock '06 f250 king ranch fx4 6.0. It has 104k miles. After reading on here I already have plans of as soon as the first thing goes wrong (egr cooler, oil cooler, head gasket or anything that requires tear down on top end) doing arp studs egr upgrade or delete and oil cooler. Turning a wrench doesn't bother me and I don't require the vehicle for work. I will be using the truck to pull toys (pontoon boat and camper may upgrade to fifth wheel camper, hence the f250 (wife doesn't know)).
My question is "what gauges should I put in it?" I plan on getting a scangauge II and installing a fuel pressure gauge. But is an egt gauge really needed keeping it stock? If I do up grade to a 5er it's gonna be a mid size at best nothing really big.
My question is "what gauges should I put in it?" I plan on getting a scangauge II and installing a fuel pressure gauge. But is an egt gauge really needed keeping it stock? If I do up grade to a 5er it's gonna be a mid size at best nothing really big.
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Scangauge will get you oil, coolant, and tranny temps, as well as voltage. Fuel pressure is important to have, as well. As for EGT, it's nice to have, but you're probably ok without it stock as long as you are good about not shutting the engine off after running it hard without a cooldown period.
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I answered on your other post https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1035960-gauges.html. Yes, egt is important even on a stock engine. You can easily exceed 1200 F running stock and towing up a long hill.
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Sorry for the triple post I don't know what happened.
I think for now I'm just gonna go with fuel pressure and the SG I don't have any immediate plans to be climbing any big hills with a load in the near future. I live in middle Tennessee so it's not like we have big mountains like in Colorado. And my max load rite now is about 4500lbs and that's my boat and loaded down with fire wood, bikes and other misc stuff for camping out at Land between the lakes. Which is where we usually go. But now that I have a bigger truck we may be venturing out a good bit further.
I think for now I'm just gonna go with fuel pressure and the SG I don't have any immediate plans to be climbing any big hills with a load in the near future. I live in middle Tennessee so it's not like we have big mountains like in Colorado. And my max load rite now is about 4500lbs and that's my boat and loaded down with fire wood, bikes and other misc stuff for camping out at Land between the lakes. Which is where we usually go. But now that I have a bigger truck we may be venturing out a good bit further.
