Attention: TDR Forum Junkies Hello,
I'm a new member but I've been watching you all for quite some time...
Yesterday while driving up a fairly steep hill I heard a loud !POP! and then my truck was making a loud "wind tunnel" like noise.
I let up off the gas (diesel?) and noticed my turbo boost was almost zero and my EGT's were climbing.
I bought this truck new and have only had it for 4 months (11800 miles). I was quite scared that I blew the turbo or perhaps had a fuel injection pump problem. I stopped, got out, and checked everything that I had installed but I couldn't see a problem. I continued to drive home (very slowly for 45 miles. ) When I got home I pulled of the intake hose from the airbox to the turbo and thank God the turbo looked intact (at least to my untrained eye).
The next morning I called Banks because I wasn't sure that I wanted to bring my truck in with their computer hooked up to it. John at Banks called me back and new exactly what it was, the loud pop was that my boost levels were higher than stock (30psi now) and the intercooler hose had popped off of the intercooler due to excess pressure. It seems that Dodge doesn't tighten it enough for my boost levels. He said that it wasn't a common problem but he sure had the answer right away.
Has anyone else seen this before? There are trucks BOMB'd more than mine out there.
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99 2500 QC LB 4x4 Auto, Laramie SLT, driftwood. Cummins 24v w/ Banks Stinger Plus kit, EGT and Boost gauges on A-Pillar mount, BFG 33x12. 50x16. 50, Procomp 2” stage II lift-kit, Rhino liner, Smittybilt nerf bars, Warn chrome Transformer brush guard w/Warn12000 winch, Tow Hooks, Xenon fender flares.
I'm a new member but I've been watching you all for quite some time...
Yesterday while driving up a fairly steep hill I heard a loud !POP! and then my truck was making a loud "wind tunnel" like noise.
I let up off the gas (diesel?) and noticed my turbo boost was almost zero and my EGT's were climbing.
I bought this truck new and have only had it for 4 months (11800 miles). I was quite scared that I blew the turbo or perhaps had a fuel injection pump problem. I stopped, got out, and checked everything that I had installed but I couldn't see a problem. I continued to drive home (very slowly for 45 miles. ) When I got home I pulled of the intake hose from the airbox to the turbo and thank God the turbo looked intact (at least to my untrained eye).
The next morning I called Banks because I wasn't sure that I wanted to bring my truck in with their computer hooked up to it. John at Banks called me back and new exactly what it was, the loud pop was that my boost levels were higher than stock (30psi now) and the intercooler hose had popped off of the intercooler due to excess pressure. It seems that Dodge doesn't tighten it enough for my boost levels. He said that it wasn't a common problem but he sure had the answer right away.
Has anyone else seen this before? There are trucks BOMB'd more than mine out there.
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99 2500 QC LB 4x4 Auto, Laramie SLT, driftwood. Cummins 24v w/ Banks Stinger Plus kit, EGT and Boost gauges on A-Pillar mount, BFG 33x12. 50x16. 50, Procomp 2” stage II lift-kit, Rhino liner, Smittybilt nerf bars, Warn chrome Transformer brush guard w/Warn12000 winch, Tow Hooks, Xenon fender flares.
