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Jimk, If your truck is getting only 5mpg, something is wrong. It should easly get at least 10MPG. You mentioned smoke. Mabye the injector nozzles are dirty? Santa, could you cut holes in the wood to let air through while driving? Or would the wood crack? Since your fan has a shroud i don't...

I've been thinking of taking a extra fan i have to work and cutting half of the blades off. Then rebalencing it. I think it gets too hot here to use it in the summer. But it might cut down on some of that under hood noise.

Yea, down here it never gets cold so i usally keep warm less than 3 min. I was waiting for the air pressure to come up. But i could see someone up north letting the heater warm up the cab before leaving. Idling before shut down is much more important. It keeps coking in the turbo to a min.

It is always a good idea to let it warm up before driving it. No matter how hot or cold it is outside. And never forget to let the turbo cool before shutting it off. It will last a lot longer. A small amout of leakage from the turbo shouldn't hurt anything. Besides, the exaust pipe won't rust as...

The oil smoke from the exaust after low speed use is likely from the turbo. They have lybrinth seals in them (old tech). There is a small channel on the comperssor side that brings charge air to the lybrinth seal. This pressure counter acts the thrust and pressuizes the outer parts of the...