EBPS cleaning or bypass
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EBPS cleaning or bypass
Hello everyone. Well as everyone knows it is that time of the year for the
dreaded back pressure sensor and valve problems. As I have been reading many of everyones forums for cleaning, I have been wondering why soot is being retained in the tube and sensor? Is it perhaps the engine never gets hot enough, or just the nature of the beast. I have cleaned my sensor and tube about 6 months ago, and the silly thing is acting up again. My main question is how many times and how often should the ebps be cleaned to obtain optimal performace of should I just can the idea of cleaning and just bypass with a code eliminator pigtail? If code eliminator is the way to go, can anyone give me any feedback on it. Thanks in advance.
dreaded back pressure sensor and valve problems. As I have been reading many of everyones forums for cleaning, I have been wondering why soot is being retained in the tube and sensor? Is it perhaps the engine never gets hot enough, or just the nature of the beast. I have cleaned my sensor and tube about 6 months ago, and the silly thing is acting up again. My main question is how many times and how often should the ebps be cleaned to obtain optimal performace of should I just can the idea of cleaning and just bypass with a code eliminator pigtail? If code eliminator is the way to go, can anyone give me any feedback on it. Thanks in advance.
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In the last 6 months I havent really put that many miles on my truck. Some where around 10k, and i think it is getting clogged again. What kind of miles and driving conditions are you driving amiller93?
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I, along with at least a couple other users have had a not so favorable experience with the code eliminators. Mine went bad, and I think it cost me mileage. Another guys went bad and cost him something like 50 hp.
I have since replaced my sensor with a new one (checked the old one with AE, it was bad), and have cleaned my tube out. I have not had the chance to check mileage since I replaced the sensor though. Alan found a sensor for me on eBay that I got a steal of a deal on at $25.
I will stick with the stock sensor for now, and clean my tube once per year. The soot simply builds up in there because it has no other place to go. Heat will not burn it off in the tube. If the tube got that hot, the sensor would melt.
I have since replaced my sensor with a new one (checked the old one with AE, it was bad), and have cleaned my tube out. I have not had the chance to check mileage since I replaced the sensor though. Alan found a sensor for me on eBay that I got a steal of a deal on at $25.
I will stick with the stock sensor for now, and clean my tube once per year. The soot simply builds up in there because it has no other place to go. Heat will not burn it off in the tube. If the tube got that hot, the sensor would melt.
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