I had the pleasure of spending the day today with Scott (Proram) from Renegade Diesel, who installed gauges in my new truck, and the truck of FParlee (Fred).
Scott was completely professional, and has a terrific new shop he is setting up near Lancaster, PA. It was a beautiful drive out.
We installed DiProcal pyro, boost, and tranny gauges, in my truck, and pryo, boost, and fuel pressure in Fred's. The instructions provided by DiProcal and Geno's were OK, but there were a few snags.
First, even though the instructions say it is optional to reuse the stock A-pillar as a base, you MUST, otherwise the replacement triple-pod pillar will not fit properly. A cutting dremel is required to surgically remove the "oh-s***" handle, then some fancy finagling is involved. I must say, that I would NEVER have been able to handle the wiring of those gauges, instructions or not. Scott spliced 'em right up. Ran into a little snag finding "hot" wires; finally wired 'em right into the fuse box.
Scott drilled and tapped the manifold slow, with lots of grease, and we started truck and let her idle a minute or so. No shavings, no problems. Started to remove the horn to drill for the boost gauge, but then realized we should use the boost bolt, which we did. Only other issue was the fuel pressure banjo fitting location on Fred's truck, but I'll let him chime in on that. We used the governer test port on the passenger side of the tranny for the temp sender.
These gauges look great at night. Let me say this, get the 0-60 gauge, 600 owners.
WOT, on the flats, I hit 30-32, with get this, max EGT of 1250*! Remember, this was just romping on it, not towing. Looks like bigger exhausts are going to be required on the 600 after all.
Again, kudos to Scott for his paticience with my mechanical ignorance.
Gauge Install Completed- Interesting Results
Linear Mode
