60 series....Tech and Classifieds (5 Viewers)
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JTU
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Yep. Ouray....eventually. Altitude and a 2f means slow going.
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Or drop off your brown truck for the install and drive my brown truck as a loaner*!
*loaner service only available if the value of your vehicle exceeds mine
*loaner service only available if the value of your vehicle exceeds mine
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JTU
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The 60 has surprised me so far. I’ve average 12-13mpg on both flat highways and mountain highways. I dipped to 10mpg after having to fill up with ethology gas. 91octane ethos free is like jet fuel, it runs noticeably smoother than 87 etho free.
I was really worried about power loss at altitude but so far I’ve been able to maintain 60-65mph on the highways going uphill.
Only thing that has me puzzled is when I was coming across Texas when I would run in 5th gear for extended period of time my engine temps would creep up to about 3/4 up the gauge. Swap down to 4th gear and it would cool off. But swap back to 5th and the temps would creep up.
I was really worried about power loss at altitude but so far I’ve been able to maintain 60-65mph on the highways going uphill.
Only thing that has me puzzled is when I was coming across Texas when I would run in 5th gear for extended period of time my engine temps would creep up to about 3/4 up the gauge. Swap down to 4th gear and it would cool off. But swap back to 5th and the temps would creep up.
Lower RPMs not spinng the fan clutch up as well?
JTU
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That’s what it seems like. It has a new fan clutch, radiator, water pump, and t-stat.
Got the dash back in on the great heater core project swap...still some wiring to screw around with and various other things. Need to round up some misc screws to deal with the pocket there by the a/c control head. Have a number of wiring projects to revise or complete. have to troubleshoot the a/c as I wiped-out my previous wiring on my custom stuff since it needed to be re-done anyway and the dash project was a good time to start over.
Its road worthy now, I drove it around today for a few hours to see if anything broke or was not working....of course A/c not working was a #$%^^. Not trail worthy or trip worthy but functional for local stuff. Maybe I can figure out A/c issue next weekend and do some of the wiring for the dash guages so once I do that, the dash pad does not need to come off again.
A/c is critical
I hope now to drive it more, and get it in better "mechanical shape" and run to ground my various misc projects.
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Mine will also hit close to 210. This is running 75mph with ac full blast with a 4spd on the way to Talladega this summer.
Dustin Messina
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Mine moves like Nolen said. 210 then under 60 drops to 195. Never moved any higher.
Texas-New Mexico-Arizona heat this week, often in the low 100s. Running 65-70 mph on interstate, always 5th gear and water temp always under 200 F. This reading from an Autometer gauge. Cooling system stock except for the fan clutch that is for a 3FE 80 series.
Dustin Messina
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Where you do you have the sensor ran? @wngrog and I are running ours in the rear block drain. When I had mine in the thermo housing I got lower readings.
@maxbob002 is running a mechanical gauge. Where do you have yours ran?
In the head. Stock sending unit is still connected and I have the Autometer sensor in a second port in the head.
Bodean
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We watched the EGT's on Jrob's Duramax the last time we were on a trip towing in that rig. Temps would edge up on long pulls that didn't gear the truck down. Gear it down manually and the EGT's went down even with the higher RPM's. Just the way it is...
