Wrench Light?
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Tuned
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From: Cheyenne Wy.
Wrench Light?
Today I was towing a 3K lb trailer and 1500lb horse to the vet, on the way there no problems ECT and EOT were at the highest 12 degree spread with a 30 mph tail wind. About halfway home with now a 30mph head wind the EOT was 221 and ECT was 211, then the wrench light came on while going up a slight hill and the boost was 30.1 on the SGII, I pulled over and shut her down and she restarted with no problem and the light was out and there were no codes on the SGII. What do I need to look for?
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Your turbo has stuck VGT vanes, no question about it. Classic symptoms and cause, well known problem. You need to pull the turbo, take off the hot housing side and inspect the unision ring, the vanes, and the housing. If you are lucky it's sooted up and and has minor rust and you can just clean it. You may have serious rust pitting (mine did) and need to replace the turbo. You can drive it forever like this if you don't need low end power, don't tow a trailer, don't need tow/haul engine braking and don't need the best fuel economy. The PCM is quite quick at going into limp mode on overboost so you shouldn't hurt anything. FWIW I towed a quite heavy trailer around 2500 miles with this problem, I was just into the trip when the problem first hit, so I got quite good at going up hills very slowly so as to not provoke the wrench god...
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Over 28 psi boost is not good. Turbo or vgt solenoid or both. More than likely turbo. Three times on the truck I no longer have.
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From: Cheyenne Wy.
I agree with you there, just try to tell the wife that, she drives the Superduty like she drives her Screaming Yellow Mustang!!
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I agree on using the proper gear but if everything is working properly your foot on a hill with a load should give no cel's.