Maybe Tea Kettle Sound
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Maybe Tea Kettle Sound
I have a 2005 Eddie Bauer Excursion with the 6.0 Power Stroke. The truck has right at 77,000 miles and I picked it up a couple of months ago. Very nice, clean truck truck that runs well. This is my 2nd 2005 Excursion with the 6.0 in it. The first one had the head gaskets issues and I had them replaced. Well I had had more issues after about 30,000 miles (I think head gaskets again but it could have been something else) I was going to get into the engine again but when I found the low mile truck. I went for it.
OK, last weekend I pulled my 24' car trailer about 600 miles round trip for the first time and the truck did fine but it did start to have a sound under heavy loads like when going up a hill (running about 70 mph). Well the sound reminded me a lot of the Tea Kettle Sound I remember from the blown head gaskets on the other truck but when I stopped to check under the hood, the level in the degas tank was the same as I started with and I had none of the white crap on the outside of the tank or on the bottom of the hood that I know so well from before (everything was still fine when I got home and the truck cooled off). So I am thinking that the sound is from something else such as the cooling fan maybe? Looking for ideas.
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Kim Barron
OK, last weekend I pulled my 24' car trailer about 600 miles round trip for the first time and the truck did fine but it did start to have a sound under heavy loads like when going up a hill (running about 70 mph). Well the sound reminded me a lot of the Tea Kettle Sound I remember from the blown head gaskets on the other truck but when I stopped to check under the hood, the level in the degas tank was the same as I started with and I had none of the white crap on the outside of the tank or on the bottom of the hood that I know so well from before (everything was still fine when I got home and the truck cooled off). So I am thinking that the sound is from something else such as the cooling fan maybe? Looking for ideas.
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Kim Barron
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The noise would show up when the truck would down shift when going up a hill. The higher the RPM, the worse the noise seemed. Once the truck would shift back up into a higher gear, the noise would go down and stop. It did not go away the second the truck upshifted but would take a short time to die down (a few seconds or so). I do not have a boost gauge on the truck but I would have to assume that the boost was up when I was climbing the hill. I was running around 70 mph on the Interstate pulling a 24' enclosed car trailer with a weight of at least 8000 lbs.
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The noise would show up when the truck would down shift when going up a hill. The higher the RPM, the worse the noise seemed. Once the truck would shift back up into a higher gear, the noise would go down and stop. It did not go away the second the truck upshifted but would take a short time to die down (a few seconds or so). I do not have a boost gauge on the truck but I would have to assume that the boost was up when I was climbing the hill. I was running around 70 mph on the Interstate pulling a 24' enclosed car trailer with a weight of at least 8000 lbs.
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You should also check the charge air system. There is a tool that is placed on the suction side of the turbo. This will put the CA system under 25psi -30psi pressure. This corresponds to a pressure test with maximum boost
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