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Agreed myself I might add some kind of cleaner with clean Diesel fuel and triple dose it before I pulled injectors or worried about the IP. I would not worry about putting weight in the bed in less you have a crane handy and do it quick and fast. That motor will run fine at 2400 2500 rpm so go for a good drive with additives and wind all the gears out and keep the rpm up by highway speeds or back roads lower gears. Some say don't wind them up that high to shift but what is the difference between going down the highway at 2400-2500 rpm in 5th to try and keep up with traffic or shifting every gear at 2400-2500. I have never been afraid to wind out any Diesel and I never will. If I was afraid it will blow up then I would park it and plant flowers in the bed for the front yard. I have said it before when driving my 816 if I do not bump the governor on every shift the truck will fall on it's face. I got a chance to be in the passenger seat for 300 miles when I had my 915 recovered. Older person been in trucking long time and he owned the tractor trailer. Could shift gears with just one bump of the clutch and easy on the rpm up shifting as the truck had 400 HP. Cruse down the highway at the rpm where the torque and HP met. Been just about two years so forget what it was but the truck was able to do highway speeds at that RPM. Now when it came time to cross the mountains he hit the bottom of the hill doing 70 mph and RPM in the lower range. Got 1/4 way up the mountain and he is wondering why his 400 HP motor can not get the RPM up with out downshifting and can not even hold speed but dropping speed and still down shifting.
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