FordGuy100
Registered User
Well first off my truck is still running like a champ, but I have some problems with my truck that I need some answers to.
First off I was driving my sister home from school and I got stuck behind a slow guy and my dad caught up to us. I drove on like everything was normal. I got home and my dad said that my brake lights were always on, as if I was stepping on the brake pedal the whole time. Do you suppose this could be caused by me shoving a whole bunch of wiring and gauge amplifiers under the dash. Maybe I crossed some wires in there or something.
Second, me and my sister headed up to the "Basin". What it is is about 5 miles to the east of us, and the elevation goes from 1500' at our house to about 4000'. We wanted to play in the snow. So we were going along and I was going around 30mph on this gravel road (essentially a heavily used logging road). I saw this nice buck about 100 yards off the road, but some trees got in the way, cause I was doing like 30, so I slammed on the brakes and turned the wheel to the left fairly sharply to whip my back end around a little bit so I could turn around and look (not a very wide road, ened up about a 6 point turn, there was a cliff behind us of a good 200' so i didnt want to get to clost to the edge. So I slammed on the brakes and I hear this really weird grinding noise coming from my left front wheel. I got out and I could see inside the wheel, where the brake is at and there was a hug gouge going all the way around the inside of the wheel, it actually shaved off a good amoun of aluminum. I was kinda scared that I screwed up my wheel and had my sister stand out in the snow (
) and look at it when I drove to make sure it wasnt off balance or rotated lopsided. It didnt so I cleaned out all the Aluminum shavings and drove home being careful to avoid potholes and I took it easy. What the heck could have caused this. The brake sheild (or at least thats what I think it is) is the closest thing to the wheel with about a .5"-.75" of clearance.
Next the turbo is kinda throwing a little oil. Its not much, but theres little tiny specs on the rear of my passenger side valve cover and a little on the firwall. Its not bad at all, its not like its drenched or anything, but theres some little specs back there. I just figured I should ask and make sure all is good, though I bet its nothing that will hurt. Maybe its from the install I dont know. Another turbo question, when I let it idle, especially warm, it the turbo will spool up a little, then spool back down. It does it every couple of seconds, it will switch from spooled up (for idle) to spooled down. When I was driving on the logging road today and stopped to look at my wheel, it was doing it rather loudly, it kinda sounded like a siren off in the distance, if you know what I mean.
And lastly sometimes when I get on it hard it sounds like I'm having some exhaust clearance issues when the boost gets up to around 6psi. I suppose its the downpipe clearance, I should clear it a little more from the heat shield to the bottom of the cab, I bet thats what it is.
I gotta go and fill up tommorow, I'll figure out what kind of milage I'm getting the next fill-up. Before the turbo I was avarageing 16.5-17mpg, I'll have to see what it goes down to.
First off I was driving my sister home from school and I got stuck behind a slow guy and my dad caught up to us. I drove on like everything was normal. I got home and my dad said that my brake lights were always on, as if I was stepping on the brake pedal the whole time. Do you suppose this could be caused by me shoving a whole bunch of wiring and gauge amplifiers under the dash. Maybe I crossed some wires in there or something.
Second, me and my sister headed up to the "Basin". What it is is about 5 miles to the east of us, and the elevation goes from 1500' at our house to about 4000'. We wanted to play in the snow. So we were going along and I was going around 30mph on this gravel road (essentially a heavily used logging road). I saw this nice buck about 100 yards off the road, but some trees got in the way, cause I was doing like 30, so I slammed on the brakes and turned the wheel to the left fairly sharply to whip my back end around a little bit so I could turn around and look (not a very wide road, ened up about a 6 point turn, there was a cliff behind us of a good 200' so i didnt want to get to clost to the edge. So I slammed on the brakes and I hear this really weird grinding noise coming from my left front wheel. I got out and I could see inside the wheel, where the brake is at and there was a hug gouge going all the way around the inside of the wheel, it actually shaved off a good amoun of aluminum. I was kinda scared that I screwed up my wheel and had my sister stand out in the snow (
) and look at it when I drove to make sure it wasnt off balance or rotated lopsided. It didnt so I cleaned out all the Aluminum shavings and drove home being careful to avoid potholes and I took it easy. What the heck could have caused this. The brake sheild (or at least thats what I think it is) is the closest thing to the wheel with about a .5"-.75" of clearance. Next the turbo is kinda throwing a little oil. Its not much, but theres little tiny specs on the rear of my passenger side valve cover and a little on the firwall. Its not bad at all, its not like its drenched or anything, but theres some little specs back there. I just figured I should ask and make sure all is good, though I bet its nothing that will hurt. Maybe its from the install I dont know. Another turbo question, when I let it idle, especially warm, it the turbo will spool up a little, then spool back down. It does it every couple of seconds, it will switch from spooled up (for idle) to spooled down. When I was driving on the logging road today and stopped to look at my wheel, it was doing it rather loudly, it kinda sounded like a siren off in the distance, if you know what I mean.
And lastly sometimes when I get on it hard it sounds like I'm having some exhaust clearance issues when the boost gets up to around 6psi. I suppose its the downpipe clearance, I should clear it a little more from the heat shield to the bottom of the cab, I bet thats what it is.
I gotta go and fill up tommorow, I'll figure out what kind of milage I'm getting the next fill-up. Before the turbo I was avarageing 16.5-17mpg, I'll have to see what it goes down to.
