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Old 03-19-2012, 07:28 AM
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Inter cooler tube boot blown

Every time I hold 20 psi of boost my darn turbo side inter cooler tube boot blows off the drivers side on top of engine they say diesel site on them wonder if clays would hold better ?? Someone was tellin some body's has ridges in them to help hold on Im gettin closer to Ordering 38r but I'm gonna have to fix this issue first oh am the clamp is tight it happened twice in 5 miles
 
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Old 03-19-2012, 07:34 AM
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I have the Dieselsite boots and do not have a problem with them at all.
You might pull it off and clean the inside real good.Spray them with hair spray and re-install it.Tighten the clamp up good.
 
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Old 03-19-2012, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by riverrat41
I have the Dieselsite boots and do not have a problem with them at all.
You might pull it off and clean the inside real good.Spray them with hair spray and re-install it.Tighten the clamp up good.
Hair spray works wonders. I kept blowing my driver side tube off and I cleaned then real good and hit em with hair spray and not a problem since.
 
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well it ripped one of them so i am gonna order the kit from clay i guess abd hair spray them i guess hope it wiorks cuz i know if i have a 38 R runnin 40psi double what its doin now and ya ill have to do something
 
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Old 03-19-2012, 10:23 AM
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I still blow that boot off till roland told me to wrap a piece of tig rod around the tube in the groove. Now it holds.
 
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Old 03-19-2012, 11:05 AM
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well it ripped one of them so i am gonna order the kit from clay i guess abd hair spray them i guess hope it wiorks cuz i know if i have a 38 R runnin 40psi double what its doin now and ya ill have to do something
Don't bother with hairspray, IMO. It is only a bandaid for another issue being the connection needs to be cleaned or your tube has been egg shaped from over-tightening. One of our trucks runs well over 50psi no hairspray and single clamped.
 
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Don't bother with hairspray, IMO. It is only a bandaid for another issue being the connection needs to be cleaned or your tube has been egg shaped from over-tightening. One of our trucks runs well over 50psi no hairspray and single clamped.
i agree.....aftermarket boots and a tight azz clamp! i run over 40 psi with no problems....
 
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I'm running the Riffraff boots. No hairspray, and no problems. Do it right the first time, get boots from Clay, and clamp the hell out of them!

Personally I will NEVER recommend dieselsite boots to anyone because of some pictures I saw of them tearing apart.
 
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Old 03-19-2012, 11:17 PM
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I'm running the Riffraff boots. No hairspray, and no problems. Do it right the first time, get boots from Clay, and clamp the hell out of them!

Personally I will NEVER recommend dieselsite boots to anyone because of some pictures I saw of them tearing apart.
I'd like to see those pictures!
 
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I'd like to see those pictures!
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ite-boots.html
 
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Originally Posted by mueckster
I'd like to see those pictures!




In all fairness, it is reported by Dieselsite that these were early production models and it is now fixed. But I still wont recommend them. I KNOW the RiffRaff ones work great.
 
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Old 03-19-2012, 11:40 PM
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In all fairness, it is reported by Dieselsite that these were early production models and it is now fixed. But I still wont recommend them. I KNOW the RiffRaff ones work great.
That suprises me. I've been running the DS boots for over 3-1/2 yrs with no problems. I must have gotten a good batch.
 
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I talked to clay yesterday On the phone and got the blue set ordered along with eight fuel filters clay is the only place I can find them under 41 dollars a piece
 
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order up some t-clamps too. They will help, tremendously.
 
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Originally Posted by dmanshane
I talked to clay yesterday On the phone and got the blue set ordered along with eight fuel filters clay is the only place I can find them under 41 dollars a piece
Bob has a great price on them as well.

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