[QUOTE=gus's 03;1548869]Tell me your joking

 

Well I do post on a lot of threads. I try to never post anything that I have not personally experienced. Good, Bad or Inbetween I have played with a lot of different boxes and downloaders. Mostly before all of the current level of hard parts were available. I hope some of my sharing was helpful.

I did my snooping for almost a year on this and other sites before I traded my Hemi for my Cummins. I listened to the posters that seemed to be experienced. What I did do was find a local Cummins performance shop/person with a good reputation and spent a lot of time wasting his time with my questions. He did not seem to mind.

Then I did what was suggested. Full gauges before anything. Drove the truck for months to get a feel for how the gauges showed me what was going on. Then when I decided to go for racing performance, I bit the big one and spent over $6k on a race tc/transmission before I had more than 380rwhp and a perfectly working 48re. Tried to do everything in the proper sequence to minimize risk. But just as in my 60s muscle car days there is a point that when you push the limit you will find it.

In my case the freeze plug blowing at just the wrong time at the wrong place was not even at the limit, just bad timing. But I always knew that once I was on the drag strip after 30+ years with this truck that I would break something sooner or later.

I just wish people would do their homework before they start bombing and still expect everything to be perfect and expect DC to fix their poor judegment or just plain stupidity.

Ok, once again I gotta shut up.

 

Im pretty new to the diesel, but I am a tech for a living and I dont take anything I read here as a joke. I was talking to the Master tech that I work with (Saab). He asked how the chip I had was working and about the recon. I told him and he asked where the pyro probe is supposed to get drilled and tapped at. I told him and he got pretty riled up and said the hottest spot on the exhaust was gonna be after the turbo, He was also telling me the Duramax comes with a pyro gauge stock and thats where gm always puts their pyros. I told him if I put in the pyro after the turbo then I would have to add about 300 degrees to the reading I got to be accurate. He told me where I was putting it would not be accurate, and he said If I put it there what was the point of even doing it. I told him I needed an egt gauge for towing the atv trailer, he asked why. I said if I am pulling a hill and the temps get high I am gonna need to back off the throttle. I told him it had a trans temp gauge too. He said, I bet you wont back off the throttle, you'll probably just bury your foot in it and keep going. He then said I bet you wont even pull over if the trans gets hot. So, I fired back with this, the duramax doesn't have a factory egt gauge, I know this because I have done two edge juice setups on a 2002 and a 2005. He was wrong about the probe location and I showed him where Quadzilla recommended putting it in their directions. I told him he was smoking crack if he thought I was gonna try and burn up my turbo when I saw the egt's get high. I guess he didn't like me telling him he was wrong about the probe location. Moral here is, I read, I remember, I live it.

 

And that just goes to show you that a "master tech" can have his head up his behind.... to put it nicely...

 

Which one was it? I may be on the forum, some of the forums I have to spend forever trying to remember what my user name and password is because I don't visit as often. But I am on just about all of them, lol. And if you think misinformation on a forum is bad, try youtube and the commenting on videos. The propaganda that some of those weasels say on how to do this or that is ridiculous.
Likely not, that guy lists a turbo upgrade in his sig.....the guy in this topic had a stock charger.

 

That is him. He just got that charger today and tried to install it but his truck is still spewing oil out of the exhaust and won't idle. Check out CompDiesel thread.
He was running Smarty AND TST with stock turbo. Someone told him to run it, wot, the whole quarter mile. I'm surprised he got 2 full passes.

 

hes probably a "master tech" in light Automotive and not heavy equipment, so he probably has very little experience with diesels period.

 

That's funny.. It' s amazes me how ignorant or bliss people can be... Me I am expecting my STOCK tranny to grenade!! Why because it's doing things it's not made for.. Soon when I have my twins it will be even worse.. Why.. WHy not. I am going to see what I can get out of the slushbucket before I have to cough up for a suncoast!!! Buuut I am not at the track or pulling sleds!! I just drive...

 

I read the comp thread. I can't believe the how one of the members actually posted "he was drag racing, so he had to keep his foot in it" I left him some healthy advice in my post.

 

exactly!

If that guy is a "master tech" than I guess that makes most of the people on this forum a "super awesome incredible tech"

if theres a factory pyro and guage on my truck, I havent found it yet

ben