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11-05-2008, 10:53 PM
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The rod on the actuator extends with pressure, and should be fully retracted when the engine is shut off.
11-06-2008, 03:42 PM
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Have pulled my camper 8500 dry weight with everything as stock except the turbo. Found when I was running the edge comp I would have to back out of it on long hills due to the egts climbing too fast or I would just turn the comp off. With the comp off it would hold speed but not gain much.
While on flat ground I have no problem building up speed with the comp off. This is with 33" tires & 3.55 rears to boot, So somethin may be wrong. Like the others have said check the usuall suspects, I would start with the fuel filter.
On another note have towed up to 16k several times & I would have to keep the comp off EVEN on flat ground to keep the egt's under control. But I am **** about not letting it get close to 1200.
Looking forward to hooking to the camper & seeing how the adrenaline does.
While on flat ground I have no problem building up speed with the comp off. This is with 33" tires & 3.55 rears to boot, So somethin may be wrong. Like the others have said check the usuall suspects, I would start with the fuel filter.
On another note have towed up to 16k several times & I would have to keep the comp off EVEN on flat ground to keep the egt's under control. But I am **** about not letting it get close to 1200.
Looking forward to hooking to the camper & seeing how the adrenaline does.
11-06-2008, 06:05 PM
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Are you sure, I'm fairly certain it is spring loaded shut and it takes pressure Via intake to force the spring closed thus opening the wastegate, now if it was a 6.5 chev the wastegate would loose and you could open and close it by hand
I'll check mine to be sure
11-08-2008, 09:19 PM
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for towing here is what I would do
First adjust the valves
get your gauges fp/boost/egt
AFE stage 2 intake, 4 or 5 inch exhaust and an ez paired with RV 275 injectors
thats a pretty cheap set up and your truck will tow like its on roids!
I bought that entire set up as a combo package from CMP chips when I had my 24v and it was really inexpensive Less then 1k if I remember correctly for everything except the injectors and I got them off ebay pretty cheap
First adjust the valves
get your gauges fp/boost/egt
AFE stage 2 intake, 4 or 5 inch exhaust and an ez paired with RV 275 injectors
thats a pretty cheap set up and your truck will tow like its on roids!
I bought that entire set up as a combo package from CMP chips when I had my 24v and it was really inexpensive Less then 1k if I remember correctly for everything except the injectors and I got them off ebay pretty cheap
I thought my truck was a pig when I got it also, I was disapointed in it's towing power. I like it now though, it just needed a few tweak to get there.
11-09-2008, 01:44 PM
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A Chev 6.5 uses vacuum to open and close the wastegate as demanded by the ECM through the wastegate solenoid. The Cummins way is far less complicated.
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