Have you had your pyrometer probe come loose??

Have you had your pyrometer probe come loose??

02-15-2007, 12:33 AM

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Hoefler

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Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Shell Knob Missouri, 30 miles from Branson Posts: 1,214

Have you had your pyrometer probe come loose??

While pulling this burn trailer home last night, I had my pyrometer blow out of the exhaust manifold. I was running about 23lbs of boost and around 1200* on the egt. And poof, out it came. I thought I had blown a exhaust gasket some where. I still had 20lbs boost but the exhaust temp was hanging around 300*. I had to drive about 3 miles before I could pull over safely. It seem to run fine except for the noise. When I check it out, the probe had blown out of the compression fitting. I put it back together and came home with out incident. I have had my gauges installed for over 30k miles and never had a problem before. Just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.

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