We are off on our latest excursion in the old truck. Looking forward to an event free trip from home to Grand Canyon, then northern Iowa and back home. We will see if all the frustrations and skinned knuckles all worked out. So far so good with a couple hundred miles on the fluids after the change and before the trip. Trip will be good for cleaning all the fluids out. Planning on a change of oil and tranny fluid after this trip.

 

Good luck and have fun, twg

 

Thx Timmyboy!!

 

430 miles in and all is going well. Truck is running a little warmer than I am used to, but the speed limit is 80 so, using the turbo a little more than normal. Had auxiliary fan kick in for trans cooler. It wasn't hot, just set to go off at 165 degrees. Keeps it nice and cool. First time in a while that the trans fan has kicked in. But it did its job and things kept cool.

Time for a bite and back on the trail.

 

By the way I only have a trans temp and oil temp guages along with the pyrometer and boost gauge. I never get above 14 on boost. So that might be a future project.

 

Yesterday driving through West Texas cruise set on 80, oil temp stayed consistently around 225. Back off to 75 and oil cools to about 215. Back at 70 oil is at 200-210. This is with the truck pulling about 5 lbs of boost at 80. There were some decent grades that ran the boost to about 7lbs but nothing to bad. Exhaust temps stayed consistently around 800-900 for the majority of the run. On a couple of the grades the temps got up to 1200, but came back down soon after starting the decent. Checked fluids this morning and all are at level. Appears the oil cooler fix worked as it was supposed to.

On the long runs at 80, the trans stayed around 160. Typically my tranny temps don't get that warm, but then again I don't normally run at 80.

All in all a good run. Will be heading for the Grand Canyon in the morning.

Thanks for reading.

Ted

 

Sounds like a great trip, enjoy and be safe. 160 degrees, in West Texas, that is good IMO as it is likely only 60 or so above ambient.

 

Safe Trip Bro, Pictures we all love pictures.

 

Deluxe06,

I don't have the capability yet to post pictures from my phone. Not sure how on mobile site. Will look into that on the next stop when I try to fire up my laptop. Today is an RR day on the trip to the grand canyon.

 

Deluxe06,

I don't have the capability yet to post pictures from my phone. Not sure how on mobile site. Will look into that on the next stop when I try to fire up my laptop. Today is an RR day on the trip to the grand canyon.

 

Might want to check to see if you have any loose boots or leaking up pipes. Boost sounds like of low to me. I had to run to Houston and back today, and the little hills on Hwy 6 with my cruise set around 72 would get me about 10 - 12psi of boost.

Flat grades would be below 5, slight uphill 6 - 8, and the little bumps and valleys, more. This was empty, not towing or hauling anything.

 

I was thinking the same thing on boost. But don't let it worry you. If truck is running great do it at home. EGT's seem good. What kind of oil cooler mod did you do. I guess I missed that. Have a great trip!

Chet

 

Oil cooler is one I had installed by a mechanic I was using back in 2003-2004. Not sure, about that time I had to put a reman tranny in as te original was toast at 53,000 miles. I have been running in the same tranny since then with normal fluid and filter changes and had the gauge installed at the same time. I also did the ccv mod at that time so my turbo actually looks brand new when I glance down the intake. The turbo has never been taken of the truck. I installed the pyro an boost guages about five years ago. I am planning on installing a bunch more guages. I have the 6637 mod for the intake and my youngest daughter was asking during the trip, what is that high pitch squealing sound. I had to turn the tunes down to hear what she was talking about and I let her know that was the turbo doing the job it was designed to do. Also, she kept asking if the truck was ok because she heard the trans cooler fan kicking in. By the way, I ordered the cooler from Jegs and it came with the fan on it. You could always hear the tranny fan when I was pulling the old 5th wheel.

I want to see what I need to do to check the boost. I guess I need to fab up one of the boost leak testers and try that out.

Hopes: first would be an upsize in exhaust pipe diameter. I want to install a 4" from turbo back. Then I want to do the fuel bowl rebuild and see I there are any other o-rings that should be changed. But then again even with the boost levels where they are, truck runs great and even at 80, when you hit the go pedal, she still wants to literally roar past a ricer screwing around on the highway with probably too much money spent on a weed eater muffler.

Good night guys nice hearing from everyone.

Ted

 

If you have any tools with you, start by checking to make sure the clamps on all 6 boots are tight. The clamps on the orange boots seem to work loose on the passenger side for some reason.

7/16" socket for the blue and black boots, and a 5/16" for the orange boots.

 

Huh, I actually thought your boost looked good. When I tested my system for leaks I found 1 boot, the turbo to elbow clamp, and IAH leaking. If I am headed your direction while you are in Iowa I will bring my boost leak detector over.

I thought your egts sounded high but then I remembered I was only running 70 mph on my last trip so maybe they are fine.

Have a good trip.