Dodge Turbo Problems
I have a 06 Dodge CTD, it started shuddering in low gears, and intermittantly would have trouble maintaining highway speeds. I suspected it was a transmission problem, I took it to the Dodge dealer...
Forum Discussion
Rbertalotto wrote:
You MUST install a turbo cool down timer in these trucks. You can set it to shut the truck down after the turbo reaches 350 degrees or after X number of minutes.
Why? Nothing at all about it in the owners' manual of my Ram, and if it is so critical, why isn't the truck equipped with a timer? I'm not running a tuner, but my mechanic told me if I'm towing the trailer for a few hours on an interstate, in the time it takes to get off the road and stop for fuel or the local Mickey D's, the turbo has cooled sufficiently to avoid whatever is bad stuff is supposed to happen to it.
In my time as a firefighter, drove a lot of apparatus with turbocharged diesel engines. Those engines probably received the worst abuse on earth (Cummins, Cat, Detroit & Mack), (cold & go, hot shutdowns), Holsets, Garrett turbos, etc. I think I can recall one failure on a Mack CF. Now, the 7.3 & 6.0 Ford based ambulances the department operated, that's another story.
