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Chip precautions
I just bought an '02 f250 with a 7.3 in it and was thinking about buying a banks six-gun chip. I was wanting to know if theres anything else i should get along with it to make sure nothing gets torn up...ive heard of bad things happening when people just buy a chip and nothing else such as transmission damage and stuff like that
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I just bought an '02 f250 with a 7.3 in it and was thinking about buying a banks six-gun chip. I was wanting to know if theres anything else i should get along with it to make sure nothing gets torn up...ive heard of bad things happening when people just buy a chip and nothing else such as transmission damage and stuff like that
Get a set of gauges for EGT and Tranny temps. Install EGT probe pre turbo , just about 2-3 inches past the exhaust manifold. Increse EGT's is more fuel... so you can drive by EGT's... the lower the better for economy.
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I just bought an '02 f250 with a 7.3 in it and was thinking about buying a banks six-gun chip. I was wanting to know if theres anything else i should get along with it to make sure nothing gets torn up...ive heard of bad things happening when people just buy a chip and nothing else such as transmission damage and stuff like that
Do you plan to get too wild with hp or is it basically going to be just a chip?
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I had a 2000 F350 with the 7.3L, automatic and 3.73 rear end. The truck had been chipped when I bought it so I already had the gauge set, a free flow intake and a 4" turbo back exhaust with no muffler. I installed a Bully Dog 6 position chip in it. It was $500 very well spent. I pulled a 21 foot camp trailer and a 24 foot gooseneck stock trailer. I basically just ran it on the plus 50 setting a left it there. Plus 75 and plus 110 ran too hot of egt. I could pull all day with it and the tranny shift points were set up with the chip as well. It was a great setup and I would do it again hands down. When I was running in town it was great fun to pull up to the little Honda boys and blow their rice rockets off the line and into the next county. I am sure their girlfriends were not impressed that they were not only beat by a huge 4 door long box beast, but left in a cloud of black smoke as well. More fun when the windows were down. 
Yet I digress. That is my only experience with chips. I will say I did have to replace a very expensive injector harnass. I don't know if the chip caused that or not. I, did, in a fit of stupidity, sell that truck when diesel hit $4.30 gal last summer.
Good Luck!!
Yet I digress. That is my only experience with chips. I will say I did have to replace a very expensive injector harnass. I don't know if the chip caused that or not. I, did, in a fit of stupidity, sell that truck when diesel hit $4.30 gal last summer. Good Luck!!
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