also, it is very close race on the TOM this month, Scott may be able to pull it off.

 

Yeah, ya betcha. Didya have dew or diet dew?

 

HA, and they call it 'pop' .... crazy northerners!

 

When I worked up there, there were a few who called every soft drink, "Dew". I guess it's kinda like people call it all "Coke" down here, even if it's Pepsi.

My other favorite comment came at lunch one day. We went to a Chinese restaurant by the office and they had a dish marked "Extra spicy, extremely hot". I asked one of the local guys that was originally from Texas what they classified as spicy and he said "Around here, milk is considered a spice." The other locals even agreed with him. Apparently they're not fans of the jalapeno up there.

 

Hay yall I dont mean to interfere with the thread but i didnt want to start a new post because id rather get advice from my fellow Texans of course...Well here's the question...I have Glow Shift Gauges and the reason i bought them was because i was short on money and they seemed to be a good idea..well the ext temp gauge works great..but the fuel pres gauge just does whatever it wants to, i have double and trippled check the way its hooked up and its correct but the gauge itself is a 0 to 100psi range..which now im thinking that its to big a scale to read anything?...Now the boost gauge is a 0 to 60psi and a full throttle it just stays at about 20 to 22 psi..but i think my truck is pushing more boost than that..I know these questions might not make much sense but its the best i could come up with..
Thank yall for the help
Preston

 

A 0-100psi range gauge is too big for the FP application. While it should work, the minute changes in FP are going to be too small to be accurately seen on a 100psi gauge. If you only have a stock fuel system, you might only see a max of 10psi. What behavior are you seeing from it?

As for the boost, did you use a boost elbow or something else to disable the wastegate? If the wastegate on your stock HX35 hasn't been disabled, you won't be pushing much past 22psi. I know the Smarty doesn't include one, not sure about the Powerpuck. They both have electronic boost fooling capability, but you still have to do the mechanical work on the wastegate.

 

The Fuel gauge just pegs all over the place but when i hit the pedal it just goes to 0 and stays till i let off...

And no i have not done anything to the wastegate..I didnt know you had to..how would i do this...
Thanks for the help man

 

If the fuel gauge is swinging wildly over the range, I'd check to make sure you have a good ground. Considering that you're only going to see readings over the bottom 1/10th of the gauge, the needle should never swing to the upper end of the range. If all of your connections look good, it's possible the sender is bad.

As for the wastegate, I'm going to assume you have a HX35 turbo since you have a 2000 5-speed. You can buy an adjustable boost elbow that replaces the stock one. The adjustable elbow allows you to restrict the flow to the wastegate actuator so that the gate stays closed longer. You could also just remove the stock elbow and plug the hole to completely disable the wastegate. I don't really recommend that approach as you don't want that HX35 pushing more than 35psi.

As a simple test, you can squeeze off the hose going to the wastegate actuator with a clamp or pair of vise-grips just to see whether you can push past 22psi. If your boost is higher with the line squeezed close, then the boost elbow will help you out.

EDIT: This is an example of an adjustable elbow on an HX35.

 

did we ever establish if it was a mechanical or electronic FP gauge?

the range on mine is 0-30psi and it sits around 13-14psi

 

I honestly dont know what exactly your talking about in the picture..

 

The brass 90* fitting with the hose connected to it is a 'boost elbow'
It basically allows you to increase the pressure at which the wastegate opens. Your wastegate is the limiter to the overall boost your turbo can create... In short at least..

 

I'm guessing electrical. I doubt Glowshift made a mechanical gauge, and since it's good to 100psi, I wouldn't think they would want you to plumb 100psi fuel/fluid into the cab.

0-30 is the right range if you're running ~15 pounds of pressure. It's better to run in the middle of the range, as opposed to being on either end. I used to run a 0-15, but my idle pressure is 14-16, which resulted in the gauge being pegged most of the time. Never could tell if it was shorted high, or reading correctly.

As for the boost elbow, if you look at your turbo, you should have a hose and elbow as shown in the picture. The difference is that your brass elbow has a much bigger opening that passes pressure to the wastegate actuator to open the gate when boost pressure rises. The elbow shown in the picture has a small allen screw that allows you to close the opening to restrict the flow, which allows you to run higher boost pressure before the wastegate opens.

 

Errrr note the time stamp on my post, after a welcome back to Tejas Friday night..... So I may not have been thinking clearly this AM

 

My very first FP gauge was electrical. It always bounced around a lot.... except when the engine was under a load.
Then it read accurately!
So in that reguard, it worked well when important.
'BLOWINSMOKE1' - If your gauge reads 0 under throttle, I would trust the reading and check Lift Pump and Injector Pump.

Others told me their electric gauges behaved similarly!

RJ

 

Ya'll do know it is August right?

That is all,
~Rob