A couple weeks ago, I got my Smarty. I put it in on #3 (60 hp) and went for a drive.

Within ten minutes, my clutch was slipping. D'oh. Time for a new one!

Thanks to the GREAT guys at Tri-Valley Diesel in Dublin, CA, I had a new clutch in a week later.

I dropped to the 30 hp program during clutch break-in, but then recently went back to 60 (#3). In any case, it was sucking the filter-minder way down trying to breathe.

So I went back up to Tri-Valley and picked up a new S&B cold-air intake and installed it. Wow, I can hear the turbo now! The truck sure breathes better. My only complaint is there's a lot of intake noise now at highway speeds. I'm guessing they're all like this, so I'm wondering about cutting the bottom out of my stock intake and seeing how that does.

What I do like about the S&B is that there's a lot less low-end smoke than before... but I did lose a little throttle response. I know the Tri-Valley guys said they dynoed it against the AFE and said it made the same power.

The same time I picked up the truck with the new clutch, Revo was released, so I updated my Smarty with it and put the timing on #4 (fuel economy).

I've noticed so far that mileage is better on 3 than 1, but I haven't yet tried the 90 hp (5) mode yet... I'm gonna give it a bit more time for the clutch to break in before I do that. I figure at this point I'm over the recommended 200-mile point, but I wanna be absolutely sure.

Anyway... Smarty rocks, the new clutch rocks, and the S&B intake rocks, but it might be too noisy for me. We'll see.

Rob

 

What is the break in for the Con OFE? Mine should be installed and ready to go tonight.

 

200 miles of stop-n-go driving

 

I broke in my ofe on the number9 drive 200 miles before I got on it to bad. It took try valley a week to do a clutch job? thats slow

 

NOt to steal this thread, but I was talking to Peter of SBC two weeks ago during May Madness rearding clutches. He mentioned a couple of things that woke me up.

1. Always start on 1st gear (I know it is slow and 2nd is much faster) as 2nd creates more slipage and early demise of your clutch.
2. Before shutting down your engine, depress the cluch to disengage the cluch and transmission. Our cummins are way too violent when shutting down.
3. You should always use your service brake to slow down to a stop and not downshift. It causes the springs and other things to wear on ht eclutch.
4. This should be no surprice to everyone but never depress the clutch for extended period of time while waiting for a stop light.

 

Um, no. I made the appt for a week later... they had it done in four hours.