Used 06 with pyro gauge stuck at 1350, need advice

[LewisD]

I am looking at a used 06 on the internet and I am dealing with a broker. It has a gauge cluster on the dash (phantom II) and the pyro is stuck on 1350. The broker says that the gauges do not appear to be hooked up so I am a bit concerned, especially with the pyro setting at 1350.



Does anyone have any advice on what I should look for when I actually get to test drive the rig to make sure something did not get cooked?



Thanks,

Dave

 

[MoparDave]

An 06 with the pyro per turbo will see those numbers all day long even at stock power levels

 

[LewisD]

Thank You for the response! I believe the alarm on my attitude was set to 1350 and I never reached that it my 04. 5 (same engine). My main concern is that the pictures were taken with the engine off with other gauges reading 0 and I am wondering why the gauge would stick at 1350.





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Any other advice or input would be appreciated

 

[GOlsen]

A couple things. I have the same gauges in my truck. The pyro stays at the last temp when the truck is turned off, it won't return to 0. Now, in this case that would mean that someone would have shut it down at that temp, which seems hard to do. Even just parking would bring temps down. Similar thing would happen if it came disconnected at that temp. It stays there when it loses power, but when you get power back, it'll reset to actual temp. Another thing, when I first installed mine, temps would go up but not come back down. Even after leaving the truck off for a few hours, temps still stayed up at over 1000 F. I pulled the gauge out, unplugged it, and plugged it back in and it worked ok, now it's just high a couple hundred degrees. I'm currently working with autometer to get it recalibrated. Hope this helps.

 

[LewisD]

Thanks, that was very helpful. I grow more weary dealing with brokers and not owners. At least an owner has to look you in the face and tell you that they did not abuse the truck or that they did.



When you get answers like "the gauges appear to not be connected" you start asking yourself why they would be disconnected.

 

[NLeach]

my dipricol egt was reading really high one day at highway speeds(1600) empty with no load,I pulled over,shut her down started her back up and the gauge recalibrated itself and I have never had another problem since and that was the only time I had an issue and I drove cross country with a trailer in tow. The gauge just might be bad. I had a bad batch of autometers before my dipricols.

 

[nickleinonen]

my ultralite swings to about 7:00 most of the time when shut down, and sometimes it goes to 4:00 when shut down... the autometer pyrometers use a stepper motor to control the gauge movement. . there is no set point where they swing to when the power is disconnected

 

[Bekim]

On mine, with the leads not hooked up it reads 1600°F all the time
Mike
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