Engine Temp how hot is too hot?
So I was just wondering what any of you guys think about this? A few years ago I went camping in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. A place called Tuff Campground. I drove an all stock other than a 4in turbo ...
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mkirsch wrote:
Everybody keeps saying how the gauges are no better than idiot lights...
If they're functioning properly, they will tell you when it's too hot, even if they're just "idiot gauges."
Unless you go old school with mechanical gauges, you're still depending on the computer and electronic sensors to tell you what the definition of is is. What's saying the sensor is not an idiot sensor too?
That's because they (everybody) knows what they are talking about. They are called idiot gauges for a reason, by the time they are in the red it can be potentially too late and major damage has already been done. A PID monitor like the Edge Insight will alert you to a potential problem before you have a problem AND way before an idiot gauge will even move. You can set an alarm for just about anything (both visual and sound)....which I do for coolant, oil, tranny and EGT temps along with boost and voltage (battery and FICM) This type of setup gives you real time and actual numbers to monitor.
As for 6.0's the thermostat does not fully open until you hit 219* and that is when your electric fan will come on...and you can not miss it as it sounds like a helicopter taking off. If I remember correctly temps of 235* are when you start getting in trouble, I have my alarm set at 220* (and have never hit it). More important is you want to make sure the delta between your coolant and oil temps do not have a sustained difference of 15*, if so, that is when you are having an oil cooler failure and if you still have a EGR cooler in the truck all hell can break loose. Finally EGT's pre-turbo should not exceed 1300*.
