I've got a 04.5 3500 6 spd manual CTD, I bought it a year ago with 55,000 miles on it, and it has 69,000 now, and i'm questioning how good the pressure box i'm running is on the engine. It's a bullydog triple dog, i'm running on level 2 empty and stock when I tow (about 5 times in the past year). The programmer has been off and on for about 5,000 miles and i've had no problems but with all the injector problems with running them i'm wondering if I should scrap it. I eventully plan to get aftermarket injectors and turbo, but that is 4+ years down the road. My question is running the pressure box for say another 60,000 miles should I have any issues? I've never had boost over 30 PSI or EGT over 1,200 as I will not go over that. I know I have 3 years/30,000 miles left on engine warranty, but I do not see my getting any warranty work if a problem comes up. Also, is there any other issues in running pressure boxes? The extra bit of power is nice, but it's not worth it if i'm hurting my truck, as I plan to keep it for atleast 7-8 years.

Any help would be great! And this site is great BTW

 

The bullydog is not a pressure box. Its timing and duration. Its actually a programmer and thats how you know its not a pressure box. Two pressure boxes i know of are edge ez and ts mp8. There maybe a few others but the one you have isnt one. So you should be alright.

 

Sorry, not sure why I though it was a pressure box, just knew it changed timing. So changing the timing etc will not affect my injectors or any other part of the engine in a bad way?

 

If something is to go wrong in the engine the dealer could blame it on the BullyDog. It leaves a footprint in the computer.

 

I,ve been running a bd power pup on extreme and an mp-8 pressure box (it stays off until its needed) all have been on the truck since 5k and have had no issues. I also dont run it hard all the time

 

Thats not what he asked though. He asked if it was bad on his motor.

An no the timing an duration wont hurt it unles you have to much of them.

 

That's good, I enjoy the extra power, but I don't want to make my engine into a time bomb, and it will never be over level 2, and I will never stack programmers/boxes. I'm not worried about warranty at all, if my truck was bone stock the dealer would give me the run around trying to get out of it anyways, I went there already when my truck was stock about seeing a chipped gear in my rearend when changing the fluid and was told it was "normal wear and tear" and that as long as they couldnt hear a noise, it was working fine