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Old Jun 20, 2009 | 01:21 AM
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While cleaning my engine bay today I saw that my drivers side IC pipe was off. I don't know how long its been off. what kind of damage is possible from that? what can I check? It seems to be running normal still.

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Old Jun 20, 2009 | 01:24 AM
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Originally Posted by krejci.mike
While cleaning my engine bay today I saw that my drivers side IC pipe was off. I don't know how long its been off. what kind of damage is possible from that? what can I check? It seems to be running normal still.

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Are you sure it was completely off before you started cleaning? When its off you won't be making any boost and will smoke like a train. Your egts can get really high fast, but if you have guages you would have noticed I am sure. You are probably fine besides building up a little extra soot to blow out
 
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Are you sure it was completely off before you started cleaning? When its off you won't be making any boost and will smoke like a train. Your egts can get really high fast, but if you have guages you would have noticed I am sure. You are probably fine besides building up a little extra soot to blow out
I don't have gauges so I might have pushed it off somehow but I'm not sure. No smoke though...
 
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You should be ok. Just drive it. im sure you already put it on
 
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Originally Posted by krejci.mike
I don't have gauges so I might have pushed it off somehow but I'm not sure. No smoke though...
Well I see we will have to get you a deal on some soon then If you didn't notice a ton of smoke then it probably just happened.
 
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Ford should have included guages with these things! But yes, like they said, you should be fine. You can miss the smoke that bellows out worse then a train
 
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i know when my ic tube blew off my truck wouldnt get out of its own way, and i am sure that you would have noticed that.
 
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I was trying to drive a big rig with a broken intercooler. It was not cool, it smoiked real bad and had 00000 power. I felt like I could push it faster...
 
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I was trying to drive a big rig with a broken intercooler. It was not cool, it smoiked real bad and had 00000 power. I felt like I could push it faster...
I blew one off also on one of our rigs, the clamp snapped, dead in the water I was.
 
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Well now we know which one to stay away from
 
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Thanks for the replies everyone! I feel better knowing that it probably just happened and I found it when I did. Thanks again,
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