Just got the Cruiser back it runs great.
Only thing is, it is still creeping up on 1200F egt pretty fast. It has no white or grey smoke and very little black.
That's great news!
Now it's time to learn to tune it
Start reading here
The Official 1HD-T/FT Fuel Pump Mod Tuning Thread
right. so here we go with some real world numbers. i pulled a 4500 pound trailer into a very stiff prairie wind up a hill. max boost with foot to floor was 16 psi and i hit 1250 f for a few seconds. i drove for about 20 minutes into wind and up as many hills as i could. some mild/moderate...
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There was a couple of guys working through tuning new to them HDJ81s at pretty much the same time. A lot of good info came out of the chat at the time