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Old Jun 9, 2011 | 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by olfordsnstone
OK, so as I see it, (and please correct me if appropriate) = Good idea is to go with Scangauge II, + add two additional "old school gauges", for EGT and Fuel Pressure. Does that summarize the conclusion on 6.0 monitoring?
Yeah, I'd say it does. The PCM doesn't know what the fuel pressure is, so it won't be available through the OBD port...so your going to have to get a gauge & sender to plumb into the test port of the secondary filter housing. I'm thinking the same goes for EGT...but I don't know that for a fact. I may not be "old school" but I spent the better part of 750k miles watching gauges in a couple of different KW. I don't like idiot lights...I want to see the problem coming before it gets to the point your calling a wrecker. Maybe I can save it before it's too late...just my way of thinking. Gauges that always display the information are what I like. Not exactly sure how a SG2 displays the vitals.
 
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Old Jun 9, 2011 | 11:54 PM
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I don't have SGII yet, but plan on getting one. I think I recall reading that it has an alarm that sounds off for any parameters that exceed preset values, i.e. Coolant Temp/Oil Temp alarm, etc... I would like to think that the alarm will sound-off on all values set and not just what you have displayed on the screen, since the screen can only show a limited number of gauges.

To the OP, thank you for posting this thread. Good, simple data for novice's like me.
 
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