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The Dalles, Or. Claim to fame is its dam on the Columbia river other then that we are a wide spot in the road about 70 miles east of Portland.
Driving from Texas to Oregon in this truck would be tiresome and long. But I will say this my M1008 drives like a car compared to my M715.
Thanks for...
Jimmy,
yes the EGT is installed in the exhaust manifold, currently when I drive from The Dalles to Portland I cruise at about 50-52mph per my GPS, the speedo says I'm doing 55. The temp stays around 400-450 at this speed. the highway is pretty flat with just a couple small hills of a few hundred...
Thanks I will do it this weekend!
Also what should the egt's go up to when in the stock setting, when you have say a couple thousand pounds of wood in the back?
I'm more then willing to be slower if I can enable the motor to last longer.
Kevin
I have a question in that when I purchased my M1008 the previous owner had turned it up ~1/4 turn or so he remembers. The question I have is how do I move it back to what was original?
I do like the performance but the egt's climb way to fast and once I put a load on the truck I expect that...