5ek running help

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  1. swaan

    swaan Road Train Member

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    You must of added the 40 psi thing later or I just plain missed that.
    Your truck shouldn't haze.
    Could be a lot of things .
    It might just need a bigger turbo, more air. Get the part # off the turbo.

    If it indeed has bigger injectors and he never did anything with turbo who knows .
    Maybe it's a 435 5ek with a big program.
    Get the compleat serial # so someone can tell you what you got there.
     
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  3. little cat 500

    little cat 500 Road Train Member

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  4. TheTrashMan

    TheTrashMan Bobtail Member

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    It's a factory 550 5ek
     
  5. TheTrashMan

    TheTrashMan Bobtail Member

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    It's set at 550
     
  6. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    Go back on the Cat ET and look at the file program thats in it, would be like 1708227, or 1708225, etc. for examples.
     
  7. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    It could be a 5EK but it could have a 5DS file in it which would be a 601 hp, 2050 tq program.
     
  8. Diesel Dave

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    To be running 40 psi of boost, you must have a hotter file than stock. See if you can get the number of the turbo.
     
  9. TheTrashMan

    TheTrashMan Bobtail Member

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    The file says 550 hp when you look at it
     
  10. rbrtwbstr

    rbrtwbstr Road Train Member

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    40lbs of boost on a 5ek? I wouldn't complain! Little smoke never hurt anybody!
     
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  11. TheTrashMan

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    File is to hot coolant temps are getting up there on long hard pulls
     
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