Brad Clayton

I was always under the impression that the two sensors also gave the PCM a good indication how well the intercooler was doing/how hot the charge air temp was.

South Carolina doesn't, you oughta see some of the heaps runnin round down there.

I took note from this site and keep an old oil cooler top cleaned up and ready to go. I also got the parts department to stock an oil pressure sensor.

I've sold quite a few vehicles with a "taillight" warranty.

The best thing I like about that presentation, is the fact that the language is down to earth and not over anyones head. It's nice to follow and keeps you interested in the subject. Again, nice work.

That tool is definetely a gamble for something like that. I use it strictly for what it was designed for and that is to completely fill the cooling system. I have had mine, which is an "air lift" and ten times better than the high dollar Blue Point unit, for about 8 years now and it was basically built to combat the piss poor cooling system designs on the Nissan Quest/Mercury Villager. Anyone who has tried to fill one of these will no what I am talking about. It also was nice to use on the 3.8L head gasket era. I actually am having trouble remembering the last time I filled a cooling system the old fashion way.

I was wondering who would notice that. The new engine took care of it, just haven't made it to the steam cleaning bay yet.

Quote: dreaded cracked exhaust up-pipe to the turbo? This job is warranty. I just installed that engine and when I started it up it skipped and had no power. The motor was a running complete. The skip was a pin pullout on the number 8 injector harness. The wire shortened up somehow and I actually had to solder in a section to get it to stay in the hardshell connector. No power was attributed mostly to a clogged cat. But still only made 12 psi when running a down pipe only. I smoked the intake just to make double sure it was ok, and now the turbo is coming off. It's definetly sticking or binding. As far as the up pipes and y-pipes are concerned, they are tit for me, because I pull the trans to do them.

I had to smoke test an intake system on an '05 F-550 for a low boost concern to rule out an intake leak today so I took some photos of the ordeal. I used to use the map hose to do this but found it not quite as complete a test as I would like. The map fitting in the intake is pretty small in diameter and it’s kinda like blowing up an inflatable raft with a coffee stirrer. So I upgraded to my procedure to the way the hotline recommends. This is the truck intact. Remove the radiator degas hose from the degas bottle to remove the air cleaner as an assembly. I took an old fuel filter and cut one of the ends off of it so I could use it to hook the radiator and egr degas lines together when unhooked from the degas bottle. This cuts down on quite a bit of coolant mess and I cap the degas nipples off with vacuum caps. With the air cleaner out of the way, remove the two nuts retaining the air intake hose bracket to the front ficm bracket studs. Pry the bracket up off the studs. Remove the crankcase depression regulator hose from the valve cover, And remove the intake hose from the truck. Unplug the IAT2 sensor. Remove the IAT2 sensor from the intake. Prepping the smoke machine to introduce smoke into the intake. Place the smoke supply hose into the IAT2 hole. Inject smoke into the intake until it comes out of the turbo inlet, this ensures the system is completely full, then cap it off. Remove the smoke supply hose. Use regulated shop air to simulate boost pressure, in this case the regulator is set at 25 psi. Using a rubber tipped blow gun apply the regulated shop air into the IAT2 hole to pressurize the intake system and help find any stubborn leaks. Some cold side of charge air cooler leak points. Hot side of charge air cooler on passenger side of truck is a common area for the tank to separate from the charge air cooler assembly. Hot side cac hose, this one has an aftermarket belt driven PTO and has more leak connection points. This truck passed the test with flying colors. In fact the intake system was sealed so well, that when I put air pressure in the intake it blew the shipping cap off the turbo that I had installed.

Quote: TOPPED UP COOLANT AND CHECKED COOLING FAN OPERATION, AND CHECKED FOR LEAK, FAN WORK AND THE AND IS NO LEAKS,CHECKED EGR VALVE AND COOLER AS PER TSB 06 21 02 ITS OK, ,CHECKED AND FOUND INTAKE AIR TEMP SENSOR IS PLUGGED AND NOT READING CORRECTLY CAUSING THE EGR COOLER TO BOIL THE COOLANT INSIDE IT, REPLACED THE SENSOR AND RECHECKED TEMP SENSOR READING OK Sounds to me like their diesel guy is a bit gun shy and scared to get into it. Either that or he is a lot lazy and is just chuckin' parts to get out of any real work.

Horseradish will add some zing to just about anything.

My condolences, Larry. I firmly believe she is in a better place and keeping an eye on us from Above.

I've got one on my bench in a million pieces, I'll send it to ya if you want some more time on em.

It was time for a change. That's the first time your seeing the ol girl 'cause I only drive 'er once a year.

Got a 6.0l running complete the other day. I didn't want to drape the chain over the engine components and damage something and I didn't want to take anything off of it to drop it in the chassis. Soooo... I needed a spreader bar, but I don't have one. Sooooo... I made good use of the 5.4L/4.6L engine lifting bracket (which works awesome for vans) and used it for a makeshift spreader bar.

Photos of car in subject. Left side done compared to original "fogged" right side.

Once again I feel privelaged to be a part of this group. That presentation is awesome and extremely kind of you to share with us poor slobs that are in the trenches.

We finally went wireless and I love it, although now I don't get as much exercise due to the lack of playing "jump rope" while working with it around the car.

I concur.

Shiiittt, this guy didn't even cut the slack off the zip-tie.

Quote: Anybody heard what kinda fuel pressure these things are gonna run? Got some new info out on these, fuel pressure is gonna be up to 2175 psi. The high pressure pump is engine mounted and driven off a dedicated cam lobe. The turbo wastegates are solenoid controlled similar to the 7.3l. Uses the new style oxygen sensors, which measures air/fuel ratio thru current output of the PCM and not from the measurement of the oxygen by the sensor.

Hope the remote start, in this old post, didn't look like this one......

Down South, we called that "dumping" the PCM, not to be confused with "the PCM took a dump".

Oh man that was a classic rant! Bruce you're in rare form today.

Quote: Take the cam sensor wiring, and take the pins out of the connector and tape it to a long piece of wire so it's easy to fish down in behind the fuel lines and all that shit We got a thinkin' man here. I don't know how many of these I have fought with, and this idea never occurred to me. Now that I have this idea to try, I probably won't have to due another one at least until I forget about this trick.