hey guys... i need help mod gone wrong...
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hey guys... i need help mod gone wrong...
Hey guys, I've got a 99 ford f-250. I've had a 14.7k mod… for a while and wanted to get more performance. I was recommended to port and polish the intake and exhaust. We found out they used abrasive material to do it like gritty sand. So I got with my friend that tunes dirtymaxes and we decided to try it ourselves. We got a bag of sandblasting sand and hooked up into the intake and started the truck. We had to hold the floor so it would run. He wanted to let the engine suck in the sand through the intake so it would port it out and then push it out the exhaust so it would port the exhaust manifold.
I was worried that it might cause problems but he figured it'd be OK as long as we didn't make boost and it get sucked in the turbo. After running the truck and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag. The check engine light was on and the engine was bucking and kicking and sounding really weird. We stopped and hooked the truck back up normal and took off the sand supply. We tried to start it again and it was really hard. Once started it couldn't idle and kept making weird noises. We took it out and drove it and it started to make scraping and knocking noises.
Help! Can anyone tell me what to do! My buddy only does dirtymaxes so he doesn't know much about fords.
I was worried that it might cause problems but he figured it'd be OK as long as we didn't make boost and it get sucked in the turbo. After running the truck and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag. The check engine light was on and the engine was bucking and kicking and sounding really weird. We stopped and hooked the truck back up normal and took off the sand supply. We tried to start it again and it was really hard. Once started it couldn't idle and kept making weird noises. We took it out and drove it and it started to make scraping and knocking noises.
Help! Can anyone tell me what to do! My buddy only does dirtymaxes so he doesn't know much about fords.
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i had to read this 3 times buti am not getting this...you sucked in dirt through the air intake to sand blast????
should have just run a K&N air filter...
should have just run a K&N air filter...
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Your problem is that you need to clean that sand out of your engine, then it should run like a scalded cat. Here's what you need to do: start it up again and pour water down the intake. When you get clean, sand free water out the tail pipe, it should be good to go.
On another topic, anyone know what ever happened to that guy, mikedeason, that used to post around here a lot?
On another topic, anyone know what ever happened to that guy, mikedeason, that used to post around here a lot?
