New Guy - First Question

[chrycofan]

Hey Guys, been reading the mag since 96 but just came here recently. Great place! So much info, so many nice people.

Okay, enough buttering up already! Recently I think I noticed a problem, you know, one of those where you aren't sure it wasn't always there and you just weren't paying attention.

The truck is a 96 3500 5-sp 2wd 215horse clubcab / 3.54's. Its got a complete Banks Powerpack ( Intake Turbo/wastegate plate pyro & boost guages exhaust K&N) the whole kit.

It seems to me (if memory is correct) that after installation (last year) solo egt's say in 4th wot never ran over 900 degrees.

What caught my attention was I noticed that the filter minder (which I had never seen move before) had moved full range. I reset it and ran a 30 mile run sometimes wide open bursts, stopped & checked and it had moved full range again.

At this point I started watching the egt's closely and now in 4th wot I can puch it all the way between 1100 and 1200 degrees. I had read the other thread about the minder moving halfway but not full. I had just recently put in a stock filter because I has neglected the K&N but I put the K&n back in - same result.

One other thing, the boost gauge goes to 30 psi and at wot it will peg the gauge. Also, I forgot the pyro probe is in the exhaust manifold (pre turbo).

The only thought a mechanic buddy had was possibly the cat was plugged ( truck has 80,000 miles, sorry forgot that). That would be fine with me - easily fixed (gone).

So wadda think, is my memory just bad (like other things at this age) or does this sound out of whack.

Truck also has Maghytek rear cover w/Amsoil in rear, has the filter package on the 5-sp,and the Prime-loc remote fuel filter w/ homemade mounting because of the Intake setup.

While I'm at ,where would you go from here with this package?


Thanks Butch

P.S. Where do you actually log in at? I just hit - Post new Topic - and logged in from the error box that came up (computor Illiterate!)